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Mount, a hanging scroll for mounting paintings; Mount, to display an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore, e.g.: To pin a biological specimen, on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissection or display; To prepare dead animals for display in taxidermy; Lens mount, an interface used to fix a lens to a camera
A French dragoon (c. 1700). Dragoons originally were mounted infantry, who were trained in horse riding as well as infantry fighting skills. However, usage altered over time and during the 18th century, dragoons evolved into conventional light cavalry units and personnel. Dragoon regiments were established in most European armies during the ...
Mounted archery is a form of archery that involves shooting arrows while on horseback. [1] A horse archer is a person who does mounted archery. [2] Archery has occasionally been used from the backs of other riding animals. In large open areas, mounted archery was a highly successful technique for hunting, for protecting herds, and for war. [3]
horse archer (practitioner) – An archer mounted on a horse; horse archery (practice) – Archery mounted on a horse; hybrid (equipment) A term to describe the combination of a recurve and a longbow, also known as "reflex-deflex". A term to describe a hunting broadhead with both fixed and mechanically opening blades.
Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are groups of soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.Until the 20th century, cavalry were the most mobile of the combat arms, operating as light cavalry in the roles of reconnaissance, screening, and skirmishing, or as heavy cavalry for decisive economy of force and shock attacks.
Dallas Police Department Mounted Unit (11-16-2024) A mounted police officer in Giza riding a camel.. Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback or camelback.Their day-to-day function is typically picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control because of their mobile mass and height advantage and increasingly in the UK for crime prevention and high visibility ...
Though in English the term man-at-arms is a fairly straightforward rendering of the French homme d'armes, [b] in the Middle Ages, there were numerous terms for this type of soldier, referring to the type of arms he would be expected to provide: In France, he might be known as a lance or glaive, while in Germany, Spieß, Helm or Gleve, and in various places, a bascinet. [2]
French line infantry grenadier (left) and voltigeur (right) c. 1808. The uniform was made of a blue coat with yellow collar and cuffs piped red, red and green epaulettes with a yellow crescent, and yellow bugle horns on the turnbacks. From 1804, they wore shakos, but some had bicorne hats with green pompoms and a yellow brush.