Talk:Mounted infantry

The Dragoon has a long historical tradition and has become a recognised form of horse borne soldier with a historical pedigree whereas MOUNTED INFANTRY per se are raised only as a mounted unit due the nature of the distances and topography of the campaign involved and is also a seperate category from yeomanry as that is a territorial unit (reservists) (there is more but shall await further response) (Toverprins 18:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC))

History
Mounted infantry existed long before the invention of the musket or rifle. I do not know exactly the details of which cultures at which times used this method of battle, but it is certainly much older, and we would do well to represent that in this article. LordAmeth 14:12, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree.KTo288 (talk)
 * I would welcome some cited references. By definition as derived from etymology (which is incomplete) infantry in the late renaissance were troops that marched on foot. There was no infantry beforehand. The term has been applied retrospectively, but foot troops had actual period and culture specific names--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 11:20, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm all for precision with the use of words, however like it or not infantry as a word has become the generic term for Foot soldier, to use it as anything but a generic and retrospective term would mean, moving the current Infantry article to the space occupied by the Foot soldier disambiguation space, and creating an article specific to the use of the term since the renaissance. If we were being pedantic the word soldier itself has its own culturally specific use and etymology, a revival of the English terms "The Foot" and "The Horse" for infantry and cavalry respectively may have culturally neutral connotations, but again maybe not.
 * How does the Iliad and the Bible sound for references, not universally accepted as reliable I know. KTo288 (talk) 15:38, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, so whatever citations you have that can lay my hands on which say that there were troops which rode to their positions in battle and then fought dismounted--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 05:15, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

21st century mounted infantry
isn't the way American Special Forces used horses during the beginning of the war in Afghanistan (2001) to be compared to mounted infantry ?

Kipling verse
It seems to me that the Kipling verse "M.I. (Mounted Infantry of the Line)" (see here or here for words and here for commentary) should be mentioned in the section on ther 19th c and the Boer war. the verse showed the increased public recognition of the Mounted Infantry as a separate organization, and the use of the abbreviation "M.I." DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 16:21, 1 November 2019 (UTC)