In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

The Australian Mounted Division was armed with swords and in September, after the successful breaching of the Ottoman line on the Mediterranean coast by the British Empire infantry XXI Corps was followed by cavalry attacks by the 4th Cavalry Division, 5th Cavalry Division and Australian Mounted Divisions which almost encircled two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills forcing their retreat.

Mounted knights armed with lances proved ineffective against formations of pikemen combined with crossbowmen whose weapons could penetrate most knights ' armor.

The gun sport of Cowboy Mounted Shooting challenges the horse and rider to race through a designated course while firing at and breaking balloon targets several feet away with blank ammunition.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Guyanese police work closely to help with drug, and human smuggling.

Most police forces salute similar to the Canadian Forces standard, with the exception of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, which follow the British Army standard of saluting with the full palm facing forward, touching the brim of the hat, if worn.

The world's oldest continuous mounted police unit in the world, being the New South Wales Mounted Police, housed at Redfern Barracks, Sydney, Australia, carries a lance with a navy blue and white pennant in all ceremonial occasions.

On July 14, 1861, he joined Captain Josiah White's Company " E ", Tennessee Mounted Rifles as a private along with his youngest brother and fifteen-year-old son.

He turned himself in to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and returned the ring shortly after police visited his home and office, wishing to speak with him.

Nielsen spent several years living in Fort Norman ( now Tulita ), Northwest Territories where his father was stationed with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and served in Texas with the Mounted Rifle Regiment.

The RCMP was formed in 1920 by the merger of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police ( RNWMP, founded 1873 ) with the Dominion Police ( founded 1868 ).

The force was merged with the Dominion Police in 1920 and was renamed as the " Royal Canadian Mounted Police ".

Troubled by the growing number of protestors and fearing violence, Mayor Gray called in the Royal Northwest Mounted Police who rode in on horseback charging into the crowd of strikers, beating them with clubs and firing weapons.

In response, he supplemented the army with local militia, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and special constables.

Troubled by the growing number of protestors and fearing violence, Mayor Gray called in the Royal Northwest Mounted Police who rode in on horseback charging into the crowd of strikers, beating them with clubs and firing weapons.

In 1846, with the arrival of USS Congress, Frémont was appointed lieutenant colonel of the California Battalion, also called U. S. Mounted Rifles, which he had helped form with his survey crew and volunteers from the Bear Flag Republic, now totaling 428 men.

King an Undersheriff of Los Angeles County ( and former member of the earlier " Monte Rangers " or " Monte Boys ") with other influential men in El Monte, formed a secessionist militia company, like the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, called the Monte Mounted Rifles on March 23, 1861.

Mounted on high springs, the car tilted inwards on curves to counterbalance the cant deficiency with the induced centrifugal force.

The CCG coordinates search and rescue operations with the Canadian Forces, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and other organizations.

In Egypt the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and Australian Light Horse of Anzac Mounted Division operating as mounted infantry, drove German and Ottoman forces back from Romani to Magdhaba and Rafa and out of the Egyptian Sinai Peninsular in 1916.

Mounted Shansitherium skeleton from the Beijing Museum of Natural History

In September 1997, The Gazette from Montreal reported that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) had arrested a Canadian gang operating a gun-running ring in Ontario and Quebec.

Stables for some of the Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch are still located at 7 Great Scotland Yard, across the street from the first headquarters.

Additional costs are incurred from separate ministries and organizations such as the National Capital Commission, the Department of National Defence, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

* In 1994, Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) detectives successfully tested hairs from a cat known as Snowball, and used the test to link a man to the murder of his wife, thus marking for the first time in forensic history the use of non-human DNA to identify a criminal.

* From Lance to Pistol: The Evolution of Mounted Soldiers from 1550 to 1600 ( myArmoury. com article )

Once in Canadian airspace, or arrived at a Canadian event taking place abroad, the Canadian Secretary to the Queen, officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and other Canadian officials will take over from whichever of their other realms ' counterparts were previously escorting the Queen or other member of the Royal Family.

Mounted Russian boyar from 17th century

The Prime Minister first announced the force as the North West Mounted Rifles but concern from the United States of America fearing a military build up led the Prime Minister to rename the force the North-West Mounted Police ( NWMP ) when formed in 1873.

The Prince Albert blockhouse was employed by the North-West Mounted Police on evacuating from Fort Carlton after the first fire.

The fruit machine was employed in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s during a campaign to eliminate all homosexuals from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), and the military.

The force was around 600 men, about 400 from the Matabeleland Mounted Police and the remainder other volunteers.

On May 6, 1865, Union Colonel William C. Bartlett's 2nd North Carolina ( Federal ) Mounted Infantry were raiding, pillaging, burning homes and engaging in other activities to undermine the economic base of the area and were attacked at White Sulphur Springs ( east of Waynesville ) by a detachment of rebels from the Thomas Legion of Highlanders, who had been summoned for help by locals.

Wainwright graduated from the Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1916 and was promoted to Captain.

Mounted archers, swordsmen, and spearmen fought with weapons not too different from those of any other culture, across the world, who had the same level of technology.

In 1933 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used a type called " Mitten Handcuffs " to prevent criminals from being able to grab an object like the officer's gun.

Tack badge from the RIC Mounted Division

Their revolt was followed by that of the Khoikhoi at other missionary stations, and some of the Khoikhoi of the Cape Mounted Rifles followed their example, including some of the very men who had escorted the governor from Fort Cox.

* From Lance to Pistol: The Evolution of Mounted Soldiers from 1550 to 1600 ( myArmoury. com article )

Aides-de-camp to lieutenant governors are appointed from officers of the Canadian Forces, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and, depending on the province, aides may also be appointed from other uniformed organizations such as municipal or provincial police and emergency services.