Robert, on 18 Jul 2005 at 20:47, you sent the following: <snip> > In the above cases, a chasseur is not a jaeger. However, I have seen where > Hessian Jaegers are referred to as Chasseurs, which confuses everybody. In > the case of the Hanauers, I've seen the Hanau Jager Corps (which spent most > of the war in Canada) described as Chasseurs too. I don't know how the German-speakers of the time used the French word: "chasseur", but I believe that "chasseur" in French means the same as "Jaeger" does in German; i.e. "hunter". A poetic way to describe a company of soldiers, I'm sure. George McCallum