Mounted scouts or cavalry, when available, should be used for flank patrols.

A stream of mounted scouts came and went reporting on the way ahead.

Their mounted scouts kept reappearing to urge the main column onward.

They had some mounted scouts in advance, cautiously feeling the way.

There were besides some 900 Arab riflemen and a few irregular mounted scouts.

Already, mounted scouts were cantering out to investigate their presence.

Barring only venturesome mounted scouts we had supposed the German columns were many kilometers away.

Guards were thrown out all around the town, and mounted scouts continued to scour the country.

Behind them trotting comfortably were the mounted scouts.

Now, we got us hardly any cavalry to speak of, some spotty noblemen, a few mounted scouts.

She watched the closing mounted scouts suddenly wheel, wrenching away, to turn and gallop back to their camp.

The machine-gun company and the mounted scouts (or detachment) take their places in line after the center battalion has halted.

A night of great excitement was that of the capturing of some of our mounted scouts in a sortie near the hills.

But the savages were wary; and instead of seeing the whole band, as we had expected, a couple of mounted scouts only appeared.

I posted a gun at the entrance to each of the three principal streets, and ordered mounted scouts to patrol the plains outside the Capital.

"I should think that McClellan would have mounted scouts some distance this side of the Potomac," said Sherburne.