Carabinier
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A carabinier is in principle a soldier armed with a carbine, musket, or rifle, which became commonplace by the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. The word is derived from the identical French word carabinier.
Napoleonic French Carabinier, 1810
Spanish Carabiniers in the Pyrenees, 1892.
"A Promising Candidate for the Carbineers" by Karl Binder, (Swiss woodcarver)
Belgian Carabiniers with dog drawn machine gun carts during the Battle of the Frontiers in 1914
Carbine
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A carbine is a long gun that has a barrel shortened from its original length. Most modern carbines are rifles that are compact versions of a longer rifle or are rifles chambered for less powerful cartridges.
An M4 carbine, a common AR-15–style carbine. The M4 is the shorter, lighter carbine variant of the M16 rifle.
Harquebusier, carbine-armed cavalry, 17th century
Carbine model 1793, used by the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars
Chauchat-Ribeyrolles