However, the old Mounted Rangers, if not own brothers of the Present day Light Horse, were! Certainly first cousins and two brief histories: which have been written of the S. V. C. agree that the first troop of Mounted Rangers paraded early in 1862, to aid. the other Volunteers in dealing with the Tels who then menaced Shanghai. hey were on the scene again, in 1870, but in 1878 they were banded. There are some still earlier papers' which refer to a Capt. Markham as being in command of 'a mounted troop as early as 1854.
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