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The 1st Regiment of Life Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. It was formed in 1788 by the union of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards and 1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. In 1922, it was amalgamated with the 2nd Life Guards to form the Life Guards.
Artist's impression of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743.. The Life Guards grew from the four troops of Horse Guards (exclusively formed of gentlemen-troopers until the transformation of the last two remaining troops into Regiments of Life Guards in 1788) [1] [2] raised by Charles II around the time of his restoration, plus two troops of Horse Grenadier Guards ...
The Life Guards were formed following the end of the English Civil War as troops of Life Guards between 1658 and 1659. [1] Regiments were subsequently raised as part of the response to (i) the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 (ii) the Jacobite rising in 1715 (iii) the Seven Years' War in 1759 and (iv) the Indian Rebellion in 1858. [2]
The 1st His Majesty's Life Guards Rifle Regiment (Russian: Ле́йб-гва́рдии 1-й стрелко́вый Его́ Вели́чества по́лк) was a regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard that existed from 1856 prior to being dissolved in 1918 after World War I and the Russian Revolution.
The Household Battalion was an infantry battalion of the British army during the Great War. [1] It was formed in September 1916 from the reserves of the Household Cavalry regiments (the 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards) to help fill the ever-increasing demands for infantry on the Western Front.
Cheeses – 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards [1] [3] The Cheesemongers – Household Cavalry; The Cherry Pickers – 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) [1] [3] [10] (from an incident during the Peninsular War, in which the 11th Light Dragoons (as the regiment was then named) were attacked while raiding an orchard at San Martin de Trebejo in ...
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 ...
Regiment of Presidential Security; Republican Guard (Iraq) Royal Guards (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) Royal Guards Reserve Regiment; Royal Horse Guards (Denmark) Royal Horse Guards; Royal Irish Regiment of Foot Guards