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.
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.
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Quito mounted troops broke up a demonstration of students and socialists shouting "Down with Plaza!"
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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
