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	GUARDS - LoveToKnow Article on GUARDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The importance of such guards regiments in the general development of organized armies is illustrated by a declaration of the House of Commons, made in 1674, that the militia, the pensioners and the Yeomen of the Guard were the only lawful armed forces in the realm.
		In 1670, On Monks death, the original 3rd troop (Monks Life Guards, renamed in 1660 the Lord Generals Troop of Guards) became the 2nd (the queens) troop, and the duke of Yorks troop the 3rd.
		The Swiss Guards, however, being foreigners, and therefore unaffected by civil troubles, retained their exact discipline and devotion to the court to the day on which they were sacrificed by their master to the bullets of the Marseillais and the pikes of the mob (August JO, 1792).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GU/GUARDS.htm (4831 words)

	Olivia ``BRITAIN`` Thomas' Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Not that she was leaving; she’d lived on the Gold Coast her whole life, to the point where she could walk around blindfolded and get to her destination.
		Britain was one indecisive woman and not much could change that.
		Britain pushed her body up from her elbows only to scan the water for some friends of hers that would usually be surfing our whatnot at this time of day, when seeing no one a sigh escaped her full pale lips and let herself crawling into the crashing waves.
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	British Life Guard's Helmet, Sword and Armour ( Armor or Cuirass )
		Issued to the Life Guards for the coronation of King George IV in 1821, this pattern of cuirass has remained unchanged for over 180 years and is worn by the Life Guards today.
		As noted the red horsehair is for the farriers of the Life Guards and the white was used by the troopers.
		Instead the "2" was dropped from the guard's ornamental cypher and it became the official state sword of the Life Guards.
	www.militaryheritage.com /lifeguard.htm (714 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: British Cavalry: 1788 - 1922: 1st Life Guards
		As such the initial Life Guards regiments had their headquarters in Knightsbridge and King Street, Portman Square but all the cavalrymen were required to find private lodgings euphemistically within a bugle calls distance of the headquarters.
		The Second Life Guards were on the left, the King's Dragoon Guards in the centre, the First Life Guards on the right and the Blues in reserve.
		For the next sixty-six years, the Life Guards were to avoid active duty and to return to guarding the monarchs of Britain at their palaces and in their travels about the country.
	britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/1stlifeguards.htm (2016 words)

	London Horse Guards Parade
		Today, the guards are changed at the top of Horse Guards Parade every hour on the striking of the clock, a ceremony which is well worth seeing.
		The low arch, guarded by two dismounted sentries, leads to Horse Guards Parade which is fringed by government offices and the Prime Minister's official Downing Street residence.
		Horse Guards Parade is the setting for the impressive ceremony of Trooping the Color by the Queen's personal troops on her Majesty's official birthday.
	www.travellondon.com /templates/attractions/gallery_horseguard.html (293 words)

	Colours of some Guards Units, British & Canadian
		Throughout Queen Victoria’s reign the Foot Guards performed this same ceremonial in honour of her birthday (24th May) and it has continued to be held ever since on a day set aside as The Sovereign’s Official Birthday.
		They are carried by Guards of Honour (not formed from the Queen's Guard) mounted on Her Majesty The Queen on State occasions.
		After changes to the Army in 1788 The 1st and 2nd Life Guards Regiments were formed, from their descendants, The Horse Grenadier Guards and four Troops of the Kings Horse Guards.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-flags/guards-colours.htm (1670 words)

	6th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
		While 1821 was the date for the official introduction of the cuirass to the Life Guards there was a brief use of British cuirasses during the Napoleonic Wars.
		Life Guards were in fact regimental in size and leadership, sometimes they are referred to as Troops.
		Wellington, judging that the retreat by the Imperial Guard had unnerved all the French soldiers who saw it, stood up in the stirrups on Copenhagen, his favourite horse, and waved his hat in the air which was a signal for a general advance.
	www.mdld.org /6thInniskilling.htm (3699 words)

	Ceremonial Collection
		This attentive guard and sentry box replicates those located outside Buckingham Palace and feature the Royal Crest.The Ceremonial Collection continues to conjure images of ceremonies and traditions which are synonymous with Europe, and only a company of true British heritage, like William Britain, could so faithfully re-create the pageantry.
		The Scots Guards were formed in 1639, and have a well-earned reputation as a crack fighting unit.
		These elegantly sculpted figures recreate the pageantry and precision of the Trooping of the Colour, which is rooted in the ceremony used for guard mounting from Horse Guards Parade, first performed on a Sovereign's birthday for King George III in London in the 1700s.
	www.carterstore.com /britain/Ceremonial_Collection.html (1375 words)

	Horse Guards \| Museum/Attraction Review \| London \| Frommers.com
		North of Downing Street, on the west side of Whitehall, is the building of the Horse Guards, which is the headquarters of the British Army.
		The real draw here is the Horse Guards themselves: the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, a combination of the oldest and most senior regiments in the British Army -- the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals.
		Life Guards wear red tunics and white plumes, and Blues and Royals are attired in blue tunics with red plumes.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/london/A24150.html (426 words)

	Britains Figures
		The leader of the soldier industry, Britains Limited has produced millions of toy soldier during its long history.
		However, for the figures that have withstood the test of time, they have become the elite toy soldiers of the world.
		James Opie's The Great Book of Britains is the most comprehensive book of the figures maker covering their entire production from 1893 through 1966.
	www.raytoys.com /britains.htm (188 words)

	An Interesting Historical Document, 1
		Emperor Haile Sellassie, as is well known, arrived in Britain as an exile on 3 June 1936.
		These two chapters, written in the Palace, with some consultation with the Emperor, as well as his Chronicles Department, and draw heavily on the Haile Sellassie's "Continuous Narrative", might well have been adopted as the opening of Volume Two, as their (ghost) author had intended.
		The narrative underlines the overriding importance of the Sanctions for Ethiopia, and argues that it was not clear that they would be abandoned until well after the Emperor's arrival in Britain.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/09/05-09-03/An.htm (1312 words)

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		The RAC is a major part of the combined Arms which join together to engage and destroy the enemy.
		Regardless of the reduced threat facing Europe, Britain still needs a strong Royal Armoured Corps to deliver the"punch" when and where it is needed.
		The Regiments of the Royal Armoured Corps today are descendants of the famous Cavalry Regiments of the Line who rode into battle on horseback as heavy or light cavalry; and of the Royal Tank Regiment who manned the first tanks.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Flats/6804/32a.html (226 words)

	The Household Cavalry
		The Household Cavalry consists of The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st The Royal Dragoons).
		The Regiments are Guards Regiments and, with the five Foot Guards Regiments, form the Household Division.
		Very often the men that form the Queen's Life Guard in Whitehall, in gleaming State ceremonial uniforms (known as Mounted Review Order), were only recently operating armoured vehicles or parachuting in their airborne role.
	www.army.mod.uk /rac/Formation_Reconnaissance/The_Household_Cavalry.htm (422 words)

	sfweekly.com \| Culture \| Stage \| Silence \| 2001-05-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ymma of Normandy (Nina Gold) is a spiteful and venomous young woman, sent against her will to Britain to marry the 14-year-old Silence (Rachel Black), Lord of Cumbria; they come together under the care of King Ethelred (Liam Vincent).
		Buffini's rich script comes to life with a marvelous local cast that gives any out-of-towners I've seen lately a run for their money.
		Ymma is intelligently cunning, gaining power as she guards Silence's life-threatening secret, yet softening her demeanor ("What a strange creature you are," she says lovingly).
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2001-05-02/culture/stage3.html (650 words)

	Victorian era badges page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1887 Victoria’s Golden Jubilee was a grand national celebration of her 50th year as Queen.
		Queen Victoria is associated with Britain's great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and - especially - empire.
		At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set.
	www.militarybadges.info /pages/uk/UK-1800.htm (407 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first fl officer to serve in the Life Guards of the United Kingdom's Household Queen's Cavalry now rides as the escort commander next to the queen's carriage.
		The Life Guards regiment of the Queen's Household Cavalry was founded 341 years ago and is the oldest and most prestigious regiment of the British army.
		Meanwhile, the two divisions of the Household Cavalry-the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals-reached 8.6 percent.
	www.gvnews.net /demo/html/GlobalviewsAlert/alert16.html (548 words)

	Scots around the world - Scots and the Secret Services
		HALDANE was born in Edinburgh in 1856, the son of Robert Haldane of Cloan, a descendant of the Haldanes of Gleneagles, and Mary Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson, of Northumberland.
		The third pillar of Britain's modern Secret Service was (and remains) its intercept service for collecting and deciphering the communications of other powers (currently known as GCHQ- Government Communications Headquarters).
		Menzies was educated at Eton and in 1909 entered the Grenadier Guards, later transferring to the Life Guards.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/world/secret_service.htm (1665 words)

	BIO PAGE
		Among the more important parts of her life were the "holidays" (similar to our vacations or long weekends) that her family took her on, as a child.
		She spent her early twenties living, and skiing, in Switzerland, with the second great love of her life, Paddy McNally, an older man whom she adored, and his teen-age sons, from a previous marriage, whom she doted on.
		In hopes of achieving such a dream, Sarah endeavored to understand her husband's life: She took up photography and became an accomplished pilot, learning to fly both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft in the Autumn of 1987.
	users.stargate.net /~fergie88/index1.html (1216 words)

	Significant Scots - John Duncan
		At an early period he enlisted in the 1st regiment of Life Guards, where he served eighteen years with an excellent character, and was discharged about the year 1840, with the highest testimonials of good conduct.
		His office on this occasion was one peculiarly trying under a vertical African sun; for in all the treaties made with the native chiefs, he marched at the head of the English party, encumbered with the heavy uniform of a Life-Guardsman, and burning within the polished plates of a tightly-buckled cuirass.
		But it was a delusive show; for in such a climate all this glittering harness was an intolerable burden, and the wearer would in reality have been more formidable in the linen-quilted armour of the soldiers of Cortez, or even in a tanned sheepskin.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/duncan_john.htm (647 words)

	Philip Weiss Auctions - Toy Soldiers, Trains, Toys & Comics
		Britains #1 The Life Guards Set Boxed Lot Consists of a Vintage Boxed, Britains #1 The Life Guards Set.
		Britains 67 1st Madras Native Infantry Lot Consists of a Vintage Boxed, Britains #67 First Madras Native Infantry at Slope Set.
		Britains #186 Mexican Rurales SetLot Consists of a Vintage,.
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	Sir George Cathcart (1794-1854)
		George Cathcart was commissioned as a cornet in the Second Life Guards on 10 May 1810 and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant into the 6th Dragoon Guards on 1 July 1811.
		In July 1853 Cathcart was made a K.C.B. and on 12 December he was appointed as an adjutant-general at the Horse Guards; in April he set off for Britain.
		When he arrived in London he discovered that some of the British army had already been sent to the Crimea; he was told that he had been given command of the 4th Division.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/cathcart.html (685 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Land: British Cavalry: Uniforms: 2nd Life Guards: Life Guards in Action, 1822 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The artist, William Heath, produced many military prints in the 1820s, at a time when Britain was basking in afterglow of victory following the 20 year Napoleonic wars.
		The print shows the 2nd Life Guards in action against the French seven years after Waterloo.
		The shabraque is rounded at the corners as was the style for the 2nd Life Guards for the next 100 years.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyuniforms/britishcavalry/2ndlifeguards1822.htm (142 words)

	Used Book Central Search / merchant: Articles of War Ltd
		Personal memoir by a U.S. Marine of his early life in Tennessee and later in the Marine Corps during WW 2 and the campaigns on Saipan, Tinian & Okinawa.
		It is a tribute both to the last prisoners alive today and to the many thousands who never returned from captivity.In this book, the prisoners describe the terror of capture and, in captivity, of their fears for the future.
		These three groupings of the SS were amalgamated to a certain extent during the war, becoming the first three divisions of the Waffen-SS [examined in Men-at-Arms 34], which expanded as a fourth branch of the Wehrmacht to encompass almost 40 field divisions by 1945.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,sid,10162,jump,1120.html (2762 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Who is guarding Britain? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Officially known as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), its role is exclusively involved in obtaining intelligence on the activities of Britain's enemies and potential enemies overseas.
		They have faced a steep learning curve with Islamic extremists since 11 September 2001 but the lack of a major terrorist incident in Britain suggests they are getting results.
		NCIS was established in 1992 and provides intelligence on major organised crime gangs for police forces up and down the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2639055.stm (819 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Message Boards: Police in 1888 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Despite the improvements to police forces all over the country and the emphasis on proper behaviour on the part of officers, in the 1880s the reputation of the police forces in Britain was hit very hard by a number of serious incidents.
		The Metropolitan Police charged a demonstration by the Metropolitan Radical Federation and were backed up by two squadrons of Life Guards and two companies of foot guards.
		The main results of these police actions were demands in the House of Commons for inquiries into police actions and a general belief that the police were not acting impartially.
	www.casebook.org /cgi-bin/forum/show.cgi?tpc=4924&post=66899 (1398 words)

	Western Mail
		Ironically, the club launched its New Deal scheme at the same time that it was being relegated from the League of Wales to the Cymru Alliance.
		With the help of local enterprise agency Antur Dwyryd-Llyn and the Employment Service, the club now runs the only course in Britain teaching unemployed people to be football coaches.
		Soccer coaches are in such short supply in Britain that Hawkins trawled the Internet to find two Swedish players who were quali-fied to coach new coaches.
	www.geocities.com /port_fc/WMail.htm (551 words)

	Rednova NEWS \| Diana's Ex Angers Britain With New Boasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Princess Diana's former lover, despised in Britain for revealing intimate details of their affair, has stirred up more revulsion - and fascination - by boasting the princess was good in bed and allowing excerpts from her private letters to be read on a television documentary.
		In a now-famous 1995 Panorama interview given two years before her death at age 36 in a Paris car crash, Diana said she had "adored him" but he had let her down.
		Hewitt left the Life Guards division of the army 10 years ago and since then has made considerable income from "Princess in Love," speaking engagements and other activities.
	www.rednova.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=9038 (588 words)

	The Panorama of British Life: Technology, Business, Internet, News, Milestones, Life, People, Upcoming Events
		It is appropriate, therefore, that the author who epitomized our cheerful illusion of the festive season when he described "the brightness of the shops where holly sprigs and berries cracked in the lamp head of the windows" is remembered among the varied gifts on offer throughout Britain.
		A box of four finely modelled Life Guards mounted on gleaming fl horses costs £44.99 and foot regiments such as the Royal Engineers or the 2nd Gurkha Rifles are the same price for a set of six.
		Harrods, too, began life as a grocery store and like Fortnum & Mason has also expanded greatly since 1849 but the Food Halls retain their Edwardian splendour.
	www.britannia.com /panorama/xshop.html (1661 words)

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