mounted troops
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In Quito mounted troops broke up a demonstration of students and socialists shouting "Down with Plaza!"
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With the mounted troops, tachanka, On four wheels you swiftly ride.
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The French authorities, with British and Italian cooperation, covered the sea with destroyers, the desert with systematic flights of airplanes and parties of cavalry and camel mounted troops.
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Among their units: � Two mounted troops totaling 266 men; even in the mechanized age, horse-borne cops are still the best unravelers of theater and garment-district traffic, best at handling riots and forcing back crowds.
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Since the days of Alexander the Great, mounted troops had proved decisive in offensive warfare and had served as an army’s eyes, ranging far afield on reconnaissance missions.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
