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The Grenadiers of the 1st Foot Guard Regiment on parade at the Lustgarten in Potsdam in 1894. The 1st Foot Guard Regiment or 1st Guards Regiment of Foot (German: 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß) was an infantry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army formed in 1806 after Napoleon defeated Prussia in the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
4th Foot Guards: 5 May 1860: Berlin: Guards Corps: 5th Foot Guards: 31 March 1897: Spandau: Guards Corps: 1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers: 14 October 1814: Berlin: Guards Corps: 2nd (Emperor Francis) Guards Grenadiers: 14 October 1814: Berlin: Guards Corps: 3rd (Queen Elizabeth) Guards Grenadiers: 5 May 1860: Charlottenburg: Guards ...
Guards Foot Artillery 16 March 1865: Spandau: Guards Corps: 1st (East Prussian) Foot Artillery "von Linger" 16 June 1864: Königsberg, Lötzen: I Army Corps: 2nd (1st Pomeranian) Foot Artillery "von Hindersin" 16 March 1865: Swinemünde, Emden: II Army Corps: 3rd (Brandenburg) Foot Artillery "General-Feldzeugmeister" 16 June 1864: Mainz: XVIII ...
The 1st Regiment of Foot Grenadiers (1 er Régiment de Grenadiers-à-Pied de la Garde Impériale) was founded from the Consular Guard Grenadiers (Gardes des Consuls), which had been formed from the Guards of the Directory. The battalion was made up of the Imperial French Army's most experienced and tallest men, and were essentially the army's ...
The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria on parade The Guard Battalion during the Estonia 100 parade in 2018 This is a list of past and present army units whose names include the word guard . Border guards , coast guards , civil guards , home guards , national guards , honor guards , republican guards , imperial guards and royal guards are listed ...
Following their role in the defeat of the French Imperial Guard at the Battle of Waterloo, the 1st Foot Guards was renamed the 1st (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards and all companies of the regiment adopted the bearskin. In 1831, it was ordered that all three Foot Guards should wear the bearskin cap, by then resembling the modern headdress ...
The Guard artillery was placed under the command of a division general, who held the title of colonel commandant; the horse artillery, the foot artillery of the Old Guard (created in 1808), the Young Guard (Jeune Garde, created in 1813) and the artillery train regiment were each placed under the command of a brigadier general (or colonel), who ...
Cap badge of the regiment [3]. The Grenadier Guards trace their lineage back to 1656, [4] when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised from gentlemen of the Honourable Artillery Company by the then heir to the throne, Prince Charles (later King Charles II), in Bruges, in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), where it formed a part of the exiled King's bodyguard. [5]