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unusual facts about Mounted infantry



Battle of Gainesville

It was composed of the 75th Ohio Mounted infantry, two companies of the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Battery A, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery with 3 cannon, and a small unit of Floridians loyal to the Union.

Battle of Ginnis

The cavalry brigade, led by Colonel Blake, was formed by another detachment of the Egyptian Camel Corps, a British Mounted Infantry company, and 57 Egyptian cavalrymen.

Derbyshire Yeomanry

In 1834, the troops were regimented as the Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry, who sponsored two companies of the Imperial Yeomanry in 1900, for service in the South African War, and in 1901 was itself reorganized as mounted infantry as the Derbyshire Imperial Yeomanry.


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2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment

The 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) is a regiment of the Australian Army and forms part of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps.

47th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry

The 47th Kentucky Mounted Infantry was organized at Camp Nelson and Irvine, Kentucky mustered in for one year in January 1864 under the command of Colonel Andrew H. Clark.

49th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry

The 49th Kentucky Mounted Infantry was organized at Camp Nelson and mustered in for one year on September 19, 1863 under the command of Colonel John G. Eve.

British South Africa Police

The organisation was formed by the BSAC in 1889 as a paramilitary, mounted infantry force in order to provide protection for the Pioneer Column of settlers which moved into Mashonaland in 1890.

Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

After Wolseley, Evelyn Wood and Roberts - all of whom had seen the future of cavalry as being for use as mounted infantry only - had retired the traditional view was reestablished as French and his protégé Major-General Haig rose to the top of the army.

William Plummer Benton

When Benton was 18 years old, he enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and fought with gallantry in the mounted infantry at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and Mexico City.