Please help me come up with a short list of generic but era-specific names for Offensive Infantry of the era around the Napoleonic wars (1750 - 1850.)

(I'm working on a series of minor adjustments to the units and their upgrade paths for a Mod... But I figure the CFC history buffs would know this best...)

Perhaps Dragoon? It's the best I can come up w/...

Fusillers.

Grenidiers.

Dragoon started our as mounted infantry, but evolved by the time of Napoleon into just another kind of Cavalry, heavier than Light cavalry (chaveau leger, lancers, mamelukes, which were mostly used in scouting and raiding, non-battlefield role but less heavy than cuirasier (with armor for chest and often back). They were more often used in a battlefield role, far more often against other cavalry that against infantry.

Legere, Voltegiers, and chaseurs were light infantry, operating as skirmishers. Line infantry with Gernadiers as elite companies, didn't throw granades anymore, and batalion light companies often called voltagiers. (Carbiniers wer the French Light batalion Greneadiers. There were lots of Guard units in the French and French allied armies, marines, young guard (often light infantry formations) middle guard, old guard, lots of guard cavalry and even guard artillery, both horse and foot (4, 6, 8 and 12 pound guns (weight of the cannon ball) 12 pounder was damn ponderous for use on the field, siege guns were 24, 26 pounders, also mortars, howitzers, Russians had a hybrid howitzer called the Licorn.

Spelling on none of these is guranteed. Germans/Austrians had Grenzers (border guard light troops) jaegers (more light troops) Landwher (reserves/malitia) just plain infantry (of course there was a german name for it, don't remember right now what it was, Guards, too. Brits had light companies and grenadiers, but more line companies to a batalion eight versus 4, but tened to smaller formations so they or because they fought in two lines rather than 3. They had a feew rifle regiments (green jackets) but some wore red (Royal Americans). Often the Genadiers of several bataions were convered into an "elite" unit. Light companies sometimes formed adhock light batalions. Brits had a Light Division on the (Iberian) Peninsula, but that was more an honorary title, it was often the advance guard. Brits had guard units too, Coldstream, Gernadier Guards, and guard cavalry.

Get a good set of Napoleonic Wargame rules, they often lay it out by having difernt maorale and ranges for diferent infantry types.

I can't do it justice here, there were too many countries and it went on too long. French started out in demi-brigades with a diferent organization than the six companies I discussed, 8 line and a grenadier in a demi-brigade. Lights got added in much bigger numbers as the war went on. Sometimes there were battion guns attached to infantry units. There were Irsih mercenaries, the Germans got reorganized regularly and fought on both sides. And the formal organization and uniforms sometimes had very little relationship to what actually happened on the field.

BoA said basically everything I was going to say.

If you're interested in armies of this era, read the book "Swords Around a Throne".