单词 | mounted rifleman |
释义 | > as lemmasmounted rifleman 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. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > infantry > mounted infantry mounted infantry1792 M.I.1900 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. < as lemmas |
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