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In the Napoleonic Wars, the French Army had up to 30 regiments of dragoons which comprised the "cavalry of the line".
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in the early 20th century. These were all the regiments that did not have a specialist role - such as
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Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopaedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015
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or, depending on the branch, as "infantry of the line", "line cavalry", etc.
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Military units and formations of the Early Modern period
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