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GUARDS - LoveToKnow Article on GUARDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | 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. |
 | | 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). |
 | | Similar forces, the Noble Guard and the Swiss Guard, are maintained in the Vatican: The court troops of Spain are called halberdiers and armed with the halbert. |
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