books.google.de - The chasseurs, being the indigenous French light horse, can perhaps therefore be equated best with the infantry demi-brigades of this period, a half-trained, unprofessional, make-shift collection, making up with zeal what they lacked in experience, a qualification which in no way diminished the importance...http://books.google.de/books/about/Napoleon_s_Line_Chasseurs.html?hl=de&id=z8fQ-QDr_zAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareNapoleon's Line Chasseurs