mounted troops
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With the mounted troops, tachanka, On four wheels you swiftly ride.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Thompson's Station, Tenn. he drove a Federal battery and mounted troops from the field, made 1,500 men surrender to his inferior forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Quito mounted troops broke up a demonstration of students and socialists shouting "Down with Plaza!"
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obsessed with capturing one of the most notorious traitors to the king, Tarleton and his mounted troops raced at full speed for Charlottesville and Monticello.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
