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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.
During the American Revolution of 1775–1783, the Connecticut 1st Company Governor's Guards [35] and the 11th Regiment of Connecticut Militia had grenadier companies. [36] [37] New York City also had a Grenadier unit, [38] as did South Carolina – the elite 1st South Carolina Regiment, raised and commanded by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
1st Foot Guards: 11 August 1688: Potsdam: Guards Corps: 2nd Foot Guards: 19 June 1813: Berlin: Guards Corps: 3rd Foot Guards: 5 May 1860: Berlin: Guards Corps: 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 ...
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 ...
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]
1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers; 1st Foot Guards (German Empire) 3rd Foot Guards (German Empire) 4th (Queen Augusta) Guards Grenadiers; 4th Foot Guards (German Empire) 5th Foot Guards (German Empire) 5th Guards Grenadiers
1st Regiment of Foot Grenadiers of the Old Guard Wearing their distinctive bearskin caps while fighting in the Six Days Campaign. Napoleon's Old Guard was the most celebrated and most feared elite military formation of its day. There were four regiments of the Old Guard infantry: 1st and 2nd each of grenadiers and chasseurs. Members of the Old ...
1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot 1751–1812. 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots) 1812–1821 1st or the Royal Regiment of Foot 1821–1871 1st or the Royal Scots Regiment 1871–1881 [24] 1661 Raised 28 March 1633, in Scotland for French service. Was on English establishment in 1661 and in 1666–67; permanently from 1678. [24] 1881: Lothian ...