The party consisted of two troops of Hussars, one company of mounted infantry of the Dublin Fusiliers, and one section of the mounted infantry of the Rifles--about two hundred men in all.
One company of mounted infantry (that of the Rifles) had been told off to form an escort for the guns.
Under certain aspects, therefore, it would possess the characteristics and qualifications of mounted infantry, and under others those of simple constabulary.
Major Kitchener's Mounted Infantry captured a convoy of camels laden with dates for the Mahdi.
In the war of the future infantry will be used for two purposes--to contain the opposing infantry, and to hold positions seized by the mobile portion of the force, be it cavalry or mounted infantry.
The great force of mounted infantry which we have raised in the present war is intended to cope with an army of Mounted Infantry opposed to us.
First and foremost it has had to operate against an army of mounted infantry, more mobile than itself.
The great question which will have to be answered in the near future is whether the mounted force of an army is to be cavalry or mounted infantry.
Rampaging about, he tried to find an exit through a batch of mules in one direction and a batch of mounted infantry in the other, but found himself baffled in both.
The postal service from Gyantse to Lhassa was performed by mounted infantry, each garrison en route containing a detachment of mounted infantrymen, who took the post from stage to stage.
In an advance overland to Canton, mounted infantry would be invaluable when the flat and cultivated country past Samchun was reached; for cavalry would be useless in such closely intersected ground.
Another column was despatched, consisting of mounted infantry, Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles, and Wood's Irregulars, under Commandant Schermbrucker.
From that time, though firing was heard at intervals throughout the day, Colonel Moeller, with a squadron of the 18th Hussars and four sections of mounted infantry, was lost to sight.
She intimated, in the event of hostilities, her willingness to send 250 mounted infantryand a machine-gun to the front.
King's Royal Rifle Corps, 25th Mounted Infantry: 'When the Boers came up they took my boots off very roughly, hurting my wounded leg very much.
That the officers selected to the commands should be the most experienced in mounted infantry work, and young enough.
As far as I remember Hutton first came to the front in the operations in Egypt, when he made a special study of mounted infantry.
That these units should be equipped as mounted infantry--that is to say, that their chief arm should be the service rifle.
Major Barrow, with a squadron of mounted infantry, and Lieutenant Kingscote, with a smart body of marines and bluejackets, formed the defensive force.
At this date with Lord Roberts in Pretoria were two and a half infantry divisions, a cavalry division, and a mounted infantry division, Wavell's Brigade having been left at Johannesburg, while the other half proceeded to the Capital.
The column consisted of half a squadron of the 7th Hussars and the York and Lancaster Mounted Infantry, together with the 7-pounder and machine guns manned by police under Captain Boggie.
The wonder is that with a mere handful of Mounted Infantry at their disposal, our officers were able to run the dacoits down and exterminate them in so short a time.
Parties of Mounted Infantry, with active police and civil officers, were told off to work both sides of the river, and a great improvement was effected in a few months.
Bo Tok was killed by Mounted Infantry of the Rifle Brigade led by Major Sir Bartle Frere, and a few months later, Lieutenant Minogue, with some Mounted Infantry of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, ran down Shwe Yan.
Bo Swe was ridden down by a party of Colonel Clements' Mounted Infantry belonging to the Lower Burma command.
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