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Mounted infantry were infantry who rode horses instead of marching. The original dragoons were essentially mounted infantry. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910-1911), "Mounted rifles are half cavalry, mounted infantry merely specially mobile infantry."[1] Today, with motor vehicles having replaced horses for military transport, the motorized infantry are in some respects successors to mounted infantry.