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New Horse Guards by Canaletto, c.1753. It is now in the collection of Tate Britain, on a long-term loan from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. [4] It hangs in the Pimlico gallery a short distance away from the artist's New Horse Guards, painted a few years later and showing the replacement building under construction. [5]
Variant sword types with the standard trooper's blade, but a bowl hilt similar to that of the officers' pattern, in brass with a brass scabbard (for the Life Guards) or iron with an iron scabbard (for the Horse Guards), exist and are believed to have been issued to the other ranks of the Household regiments for use when on home (ceremonial ...
More images: Statue of Viscount Wolseley: Horse Guards Road, Whitehall: 1920: William Goscombe John: Statue on pedestal: Bronze and stone: Grade II: Q18159880: Richard Allison (architect) [20] More images: Statue of Sir George Stuart White: Portland Place: 1922: John Tweed: Statue on pedestal: Bronze and Portland stone: Grade II: Q18159865 [21 ...
Chivalry and Command: 500 Years of Horse Guards. General Military Books. Hills, Richard J T (1970). A Short History of The Royal Horse Guards. Leo Cooper. Hills, Reginald John Taylor (1970). Royal Horse Guards (The Blues). Barnsley: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0850520274. Houlding, J A (1981). Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army 1713–1795.
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 ...
Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, in Guard horse artillery officer's uniform. The Regime of the Horse Artillery of the Imperial Guard was created by imperial decree on 15 April 1806. It was organized into three squadrons, two of veterans and one of velites, each divided into two companies of 60 men, for a theoretical total of 360 artillerymen.
Here are some of the best photos and video from the first Saturday in May. On display was a Kentucky tradition, reflecting the grand spectacle the Kentucky Derby has become since it was first ran ...