`` Don't try it '', Brannon told him, dismounting and starting up the steps with his men following.

The Brannon outfit -- known as the Slash-B because of its brand -- reached Hondo Creek before sundown.

Conchita nagged at the younger children, attempting without success to keep her thoughts off Tom Brannon.

Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.

Even as she called to the children, Conchita let her gaze seek Tom Brannon.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

Let Senora Brannon live in her father's house for a time.

`` She won't change her mind '', Brannon said.

`` In a year she'll like living in Clayton's house too much to come back to me '', Brannon said flatly.

Brannon looked at Hank Maguire.

Brannon shook his head.

`` All right '', Brannon said, rising.

Brannon timed it so that they rode in an hour after nightfall.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

A lamp burned inside, but Brannon, peering through the window, saw that the office was empty.

They reined in there, Brannon remaining in the saddle while Hogan went to look for Jesse Macklin in the hotel dining room.

Brannon had no slicker.

It seemed long, at least to Tom Brannon.

`` Just come along '', Brannon told him.

`` Let's go, Marshal '', Brannon said, and took him by the arm.

He looked at each of them in turn, Brannon last of all.

Brannon said, `` Now the key to the lockup, Marshal ''.

Brannon said.

`` Get it out '', Brannon ordered.

The obstacles may include jumps, ditches, water, steps and dismounted tasks.

Payne dismounted in Madison Place and handed the reins to Herold.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

Russell had reached the house as Cook surmised, dismounted, but just as the old trapper opened the door to receive him, he fell into the trapper's arms -- dead.

There are also mortar carrier vehicles, many of which allow the mortar to be removed from the vehicle and be used dismounted, potentially in terrain in which the vehicle cannot navigate, or in order to avoid detection.

These battalions were supported by Hautefeuille's 12 squadrons of dismounted dragoons.

Hay and Ross's dismounted dragoons were also sent, but suffered under a counter-charge delivered by the regiments of Artois and Provence under command of Colonel de la Silvière.

The Anglo-Dutch commanders now sent dismounted Dutch dragoons into Taviers, which, together with the Guards and their field guns, poured concentrated musketry-and canister-fire into the advancing French troops.

All his men dismounted and were organized into units, with longbowmen placed in a V-formation on both flanks and a small cavalry unit, commanded by Jean de Grailly, the Captal de Buch, hidden in woods at the rear.

These were followed by groups of infantry ( dismounted cavalry ) commanded, respectively, by the Dauphin ( later Charles V of France ), the Duke of Orléans and King Jean.

Fighting was close, with the core of excellent Cossack infantry making up for the weakness of their cavalry ; much of the decisive fighting was by the infantry and dismounted dragoons of each side.

Carbines were short enough to be loaded and fired from horseback but this was rarely done-a moving horse is a very unsteady platform, and once halted a soldier can load and fire more easily if dismounted, which also makes him a smaller target.

Infantry who moved on horseback, but dismounted to fight on foot, were known in the 17th and early 18th centuries as dragoons, a class of mounted infantry which later evolved into cavalry proper while retaining their historic title.

As a greater weight of man and armor could be supported in the saddle, the probability of being dismounted in combat was significantly reduced.

This gradual rise in the dominance of infantry led to the adoption of dismounted tactics.

From the earliest times knights and mounted men-at-arms had frequently dismounted to handle enemies they could not overcome on horseback, such as in the Battle of the Dyle ( 891 ) and the Battle of Bremule ( 1119 ), but after 1350s this trend became more marked with the dismounted men-at-arms fighting as super-heavy infantry with two-handed swords and poleaxes.

Following the experience of the South African War of 1899-1902 ( where mounted Boer citizen commandos fighting on foot from cover proved superior to regular cavalry ) the British Army withdrew lances for all but ceremonial purposes and placed a new emphasis on training for dismounted action.

The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.

The German Army dismounted nearly all their cavalry in the West.

The infantry with mainly dismounted cavalry and mounted infantry fought in the Judean Hills to eventually almost encircle Jerusalem which was occupied shortly after.

The remainder of the regiment, together with the Novara Lancers made a dismounted attack in an action that ended with the retreat of the Russians after heavy losses on both sides.

The last horsed U. S. Cavalry ( the Second Cavalry Division ) were dismounted in March 1944.