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Jäger (infantry)
Jäger
(singular
[der] Jäger
, plural
[die] Jäger
, ) is a
German
military term adopted in 1631 by the landgrave of Hesse when he first formed an elite infantry unit out of his professional hunters (Jäger) and rangers (
Forstleute
) in the
Hessian Army
.
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