French Napoleonic Chasseur a Cheval - 12 miniatures - Warlord Games base Operation Typhoon

Operation Typhoon

5 miles / 12 km

and a thousand dreadful ways to die

13 mounted

the French-Indian War in North America

French Napoleonic Chasseur a Cheval - 12 miniatures - Warlord Games base Operation TyphoonFormed originally back in 1743, the Chasseurs Cheval (mounted hunters) were hard riding, green clad light cavalry whose main role was patrolling and raiding for the French armies. A good Chasseur was at home on his light horse, skirmishing with the enemy cavalry or scouting enemy movements and thus providing valuable intelligence for their commanders. Armed with carbine, curved sabre and bayonet (an item disliked by the cavalrymen who used it to dig