This last month I've supplemented my Austrians with a couple of battalions of formed Jaegers (and an alternate skirmisher stand). These Tyrolean skirmishers also could form up en masse. They were well trained: at Leipzig "The 5th Jager Battalion formed square at a run (!), delivered a volley, and waited its fate with bayonets at the ready." (Nafziger - "Napoleon at Leipzig" p 229). The uniform was pike grey with green facings, which earned them the nickname 'grey devils' amongst the French.
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