Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — Mounted Infantry. [ARTICLE]

Mounted Infantry.

St James Gazette. An incident which affords a striking illustration of the advantages derivable from the judicious employment of mounted infantry is narrated in a lately-published account of the French operations in Northern Africa. At one time during the pursuit of Bi-81ima, in the south of the province of Oran, it became of the utmost moment to send i mmedlate succor to a friendly-disposed frontier tribe, and to attacK without loss of time some bands of fugitives who we.e assembled in the territory of the latter. Accordingly, Colonel Crouzet, who commanded the column which was following ap Sl-Bllmaa, mounted the men of hie battalions of rides on mules; and this body of improvised mounted infantry escorted by

afew squadrons of Spahis, succeeded in reaching a point 180 kilometres for 112 English miles) distant in fifty-nine hours. The sudden and unexpected appearanoe of this force so terrified the enemy that the oolums of the latter at once ***** I—irinnr tutifciA them baggage and cattle, fled across the frontier. ,The performances of UM moles during this march are vary high ly spoken or; and they are staled: v»have displayed as muah enduranqe.Jf camels, even when prpoeedto organize a company of -riflemen mounted'tnr in eaoh battalion of the fonrpeglmeats of Zouaves, of the three regiments. of Tirailleurs, and of th 6 Foreign LegMflb permanently quartered in Algeria.