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The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880-1913 (Hardcover)
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The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880-1913 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important
innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army.
Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of
cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the
battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on foot, thus
anticipating the development of mechanised infantry tactics during
the twentieth century. Yet despite this apparent foresight, the
mounted infantry concept was abandoned by the British Army in 1913,
just at the point when it may have made the transition from a
colonial to a continental force as part of the British
Expeditionary Force. Exploring the historical background to the
Mounted Infantry, this book untangles the debates that raged in the
army, Parliament and the press between its advocates and the
supporters of the established cavalry. With its origins in the
extemporised mounted detachments raised during times of crisis from
infantry battalions on overseas imperial garrison duties, Dr Winrow
reveals how the Mounted Infantry model, unique among European
armies, evolved into a formalised and apparently highly successful
organisation of non-cavalry mounted troops. He then analyses why
the Mounted Infantry concept fell out of favour just eleven years
after its apogee during the South African Anglo-Boer War of
1899-1902. As such the book will be of interest not only to
historians of the nineteenth-century British army, but also those
tracing the development of modern military doctrine and tactics, to
which the Mounted Infantry provided successful - if short lived -
inspiration.
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