This wiki has been automatically Mounted infantry: Infantry who are mounted on horses for the express purpose of facilitating movement, as distinguished from cavalry, in which man and horse are trained together as fighting units.[1]
See Cavalry.
References / notes
- ↑ Various contributors (1914). The War Book-of-Facts. 2nd Edition. A.W. Shaw Company, London p.143.
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