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Yeomen of the Guard: King Henry VII Kingdom of England: St. James's Palace, London, United Kingdom: The King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a bodyguard of the British Monarch. The oldest British military corps still in existence, it was created by King Henry VII in 1485 after the Battle of Bosworth Field.
The Palace Guard by Ernst Rudolf. Royal guards have historically comprised both purely ceremonial units serving in close proximity to the monarch, as well as regiments from all arms, forming a designated substantial elite and intended for active service as part of the army.
First militia muster in what is now Continental United States, 16 September 1565, St. Augustine, Florida. A militia was mustered in Spanish Florida in the 1500s, [1] while on 13 December 1636 the Massachusetts Bay Colony's General Court passed an act calling for the creation of three militia regiments from the existing separate militia companies in towns around Boston. [2]
King's American Regiment (placed on American establishment, in 1781, as 4th American Regiment, part of the regular, British Army) (1776–1783) King's Rangers; King's (Carolina) Rangers; King's Orange Rangers; King's Royal Regiment of New York; Kinloch's Light Dragoons (formed part of the British Legion in 1778) Locke's Independent Company
The Guards were created on 22 December 1917 and were controlled by the Chief of the Militia Bureau. They eventually comprised 48 battalions of men who were either too old or physically unfit for active service. [2] The Guards were disbanded following the end of the war in 1920.
The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals, locked in a rivalry stretching back to the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660, each put forward six challengers to compete for eight places at the ...
The United States Guards (USG) was a lightly armed, all-infantry military force maintained by the United States from 1917 to 1919. Tasked with an internal security and territorial defense mission within the Zone of the Interior, it was used to protect critical infrastructure and suppress civil unrest during World War I .
The Royal Guards at Washington Place. The Royal Guard of the Hawaii National Guard is an Air National Guard ceremonial unit which is uniformed in a manner similar to the royal bodyguard of the Kingdom of Hawaii of the late 19th century. [1] The last remaining Royal Guard unit of Hawaiian Kingdom was abolished after the monarchy fell during the ...