Mounted infantry

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Mounted infantry were infantry who rode horses instead of marching. Unlike cavalry, mounted infantry dismounted to fight on foot. The original dragoons were essentially mounted infantry.

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Image: Oskar Merté (1872 - 1938), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.