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单词 mounted infantry
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mounted infantry
mounted infantry, soldiers who are mounted for the sake of transit, but who fight on foot. (Cf. dragoon n. in original sense.)extracted from infantryn.
mounted infantry
b. Designating an army unit, police force, or other organization whose members serve on horseback, etc., as mounted infantry, mounted police, mounted rifleman, etc. Of a soldier or police officer: belonging to such a unit, force, etc.
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1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 175 Gen. Scott has proceeded towards Fort Jefferson with 1500 mounted militia and rifle-men.
1792 Deb. Congr. U.S. 18 Sept. (1849) 1134 General Harman..detached..the mounted infantry.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Mounted Riflemen, a corps of riflemen in the British service, dressed like hussars.
1825 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1919) 1st Ser. XII. 85 I had some time since carefully selected and equipped as light cavalry, 2 Officers, 2 Serjeants, and 22 Rank and File from the Regiment under my Command to act as a Mounted Police.
1858 E. H. D. Domenech Missionary Adventures Texas & Mexico 177 The Indians were once nearly taking prisoners a whole company of mounted infantry.
1878 Saskatchewan Herald (Battleford) 25 Aug. 1/2 Shoal Lake has been created the headquarters of the Mounted Police for that district.
1901 Empire Rev. 1 375 While Mounted Infantry are footmen trained for purposes of mobility to ride a horse or bicycle, Mounted Rifles are horsemen trained to fight on foot.
1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 9/2 He received most of the reinforcements which he demanded, bringing his army to a strength of seven infantry and three mounted divisions.
1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard ii. 50 A specialist job: the CID..Mounted Branch.
1999 High Country News 22 Nov. 7/2 I have watched a National Guard helicopter stop and hold down in the brush some 20 illegals until mounted Border Patrol agents could arrive to line them out on a cattle trail.
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