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  • The Bow Street Horse Patrols were a set of anti-highwaymen mounted police organised in London, England. They were the first uniformed police force in the...
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    Mounted police (redirect from Police horse)
    duties ranging from patrol of parks and wilderness areas, where police cars would be impractical or noisy, to riot duty, where the horse serves to intimidate...
    17 KB (1,972 words) - 09:10, 3 July 2024
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    The discography of Snow Patrol, an alternative rock band from Northern Ireland and based in Dundee, Scotland, consists of seven studio albums, thirty-two...
    72 KB (4,056 words) - 16:30, 25 July 2024
  • Rapid Forces of Fast Action) Jandarmeria Română Mounted Detachment, established 1893 Bucharest Local Police – 24 horses mounted patrol unit Iași Local...
    40 KB (3,167 words) - 08:35, 25 July 2024
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    The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies...
    140 KB (14,893 words) - 07:05, 15 June 2024
  • highway robbery. It became an established element of London policing in the 1780s. Like the Horse Patrols, they ran in tandem with the new Metropolitan Police...
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    Police van (redirect from Patrol wagon)
    form of horse-drawn carriages, with the carriage being in the form of a secure holding cell. Frank Fowler Loomis designed the first police patrol wagon...
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    sword and rides a red horse as the creator of (civil) war, conflict, and strife. The third, a food merchant, rides a black horse symbolizing famine and...
    57 KB (6,569 words) - 17:15, 15 July 2024
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    Equestrianism (redirect from Horse riding)
    funerals), police and volunteer mounted patrols and for mounted search and rescue. Riding halls enable training of horse and rider in all weathers as well as...
    60 KB (7,614 words) - 08:42, 1 August 2024
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    Horses are still seen in use by organized armed fighters in the Global South. Many nations still maintain small units of mounted riders for patrol and...
    112 KB (13,033 words) - 17:06, 1 June 2024
  • Battery (1st City of London) Honourable Artillery Company, was re-formed to provide gunners in support of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. The...
    98 KB (9,948 words) - 02:56, 4 August 2024
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    Approximately 186 horses were part of the Metropolitan Police mounted division during the second World War. Mounted patrols were stationed throughout London to aid...
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    The Shangani Patrol (or Wilson's Patrol) was a 34-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company that in 1893 was ambushed and annihilated by more than...
    72 KB (8,250 words) - 18:07, 30 May 2024
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    is the mounted police branch of London's Metropolitan Police. It is part of Met Operations. The Bow Street Horse Patrol was formed in 1763, but ceased...
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    The Central India Horse (formerly the 21st King George V's Own Horse, also known as Beatson's Horse) was a regular cavalry regiment of the British Indian...
    37 KB (3,685 words) - 01:39, 13 July 2024
  • Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) (LdSH[RC]) is a regular armoured regiment of the Canadian Army and is Canada’s only tank regiment. Currently...
    42 KB (4,138 words) - 15:30, 11 July 2024
  • 7th Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (7 Para RHA) is a regiment of the Royal Artillery in the British Army. It currently[update] serves in the...
    12 KB (1,102 words) - 19:19, 6 August 2023
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    Regiment of Horse Guards, also known as the Blues, or abbreviated as RHG, was one of the Cavalry regiments of the British Army, and part of the Household...
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    This is an incomplete list of private members' clubs with physical premises in London, United Kingdom, including those that no longer exist or have merged...
    42 KB (1,600 words) - 22:44, 15 July 2024
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    eventually came under the City Patrol, which evolved into the City Day Police, which was modelled on the Metropolitan Police. The London City Police was officially...
    32 KB (2,999 words) - 22:51, 24 July 2024
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