Show Horses Aid Marines Marmes m in Maintaining Patrol Duty Early records show that the first mounted marines marmes In the Un ted States were British and that they were evacuated from Portsmouth N H m in June 1779 They were known as Manley s marines and had bad been cavalrymen under General Burgoyne The United states marines marmes never I had cavalry for their thell mounted troops Official records called them mounted detachments and the world orld Marmes has nicknamed them Horse Horde I Four years ago the most famous detachment of Horse Marines Marmes that I of the Legat on In was disbanded and the men absorbed into other regular marine marme units United States marines marmes first went to China during the Boxer Rebellion I of 1900 Nine years later a mounted detachment was formed to a mounted patrol at n It also took a weekly census of all Amen AmenI cans living In Pe p rig ng and Its sub suburbs suburbs I Men of the detachment were fam liar har with the place of residence I of all AmerIcans the beat on of all legatIons and Ch nese government buildings so that they could be sent anywhere trouble broke out Moreover theIr horses could take them through s narrow streets which luch were closed to auto automobIles automobiles mobIles and motorcycles |