Best Infantry Troops in History?

Answer 1

Great question...

You can only judge the best troops as being the best in a certain age.

spartans in the bronze age
Roman troops in the early to mid imperial period
swiss mercenaries in renaissance period
wwii germans were pretty good soldiers
english line infantry from 1750s to 1815
prussians under frederick
napolean's imperial guard
japanese in in the meiji period
mongols were fantastic soldiers not infantry
viet cong
etc etc (missingmany good ones)

Answer 2

Lemme see the candidates:

Caesar’s Tenth Legion
Charlemagne’s Paladins
Napoleon’s Old Guard
Stonewall Brigade
442nd Regimental Combat Unit
Leonnides' 300
503rd Heavy Tank Battallion (Werhmact)
Rommel's Africa Corps
II SS Panzer Corps
Ghengis Khan's Mongols

my personal favorite are the Texas and Louisiana regiments of JB Hoods Division....

Answer 3

First Air Cavalry (Air mobile) during Vietnam era was considered most feared by NVA and Viet Cong. It was the first division in world history to exercise rapid deployment thru the exclusive use of helicopters and provide effective ground cover thru its aerial rocket artillery (ara) provided by helicopter gunships.
Jane's called the First Cav. the most dangerous fighting unit of its time. For the first time in history, enemy intelligence could never accurately determine where key elements of the division were and worse, could not project its movements. A prime example was the relief of Khe Sanh, where the NVA had 5 divisions surrounding the Marine base camp. It was thought that since the Cav was heavily engaged in Hue City and Quang Tri it could not come to the aid of Khe Sanh. Elements of the Cav not directly engaged in Hue were the first to be redeployed under Operation Pegasus and started to engage the enemy. Within less than a week, the entire division was on the offensive and within 2 weeks had totally smashed the NVA stranglehold on Khe Sanh.

Answer 4

German 1st Parachute Division 1940 -45

Answer 5

American troops at the peak of the revolutionary war, nowadays American troops are simply average.

Answer 6

good question and hard to answer. some might say the WW2 German army. Israeli special forces are pretty good. Maybe Greek Hoplites. Are you talking about individual soldiers or team solders.

Answer 7

The Japanese samurai, trained all their life to fight and to make their death as memorable as possible. The Spartans for the same reasons. Recently, German elite units in WW2.

Answer 8

10th Mountain Division

Answer 9

Henry V's soldiers at Agincourt.