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    The French Guards (French: Régiment des Gardes françaises) were an elite infantry regiment of the French Royal Army. They formed a constituent part of...
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    The crowd was eventually reinforced by the mutinous Régiment des Gardes Françaises ("Regiment of French Guards"), whose usual role was to protect public...
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    Guards (Gardes Suisses), who guarded entrances and outer perimeter. In addition, the Gardes Suisses served in the field as a fighting regiment in times...
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    service records and selected volunteers. Members of the former Régiment des Gardes Françaises (which had mutinied immediately before the storming of the Bastille)...
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    formed of foreign soldiers and Gardes Wallonnes, under number 41, then in 1860 became Spain's "53rd infantry regiment", known as El Emigrado. Catholic...
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    November 1871) He joined the army early and was a captain in the régiment des gardes françaises at the outbreak of the French Revolution. On 5 pluviôse year...
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    Army Cent-gardes Squadron Cuirassiers Regiment (Italy) Presidential Guard (disambiguation) Republican guard Salle des Traditions de la Garde Républicaine...
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  • appointed lieutenant réformé in the Régiment du Roi, on 15 August 1700 he was made Enseige in the Régiment des Gardes Françaises. He served in Flanders in 1701...
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    Milice (redirect from Franc-Gardes)
    The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (lit. 'the militia'; French pronunciation: [milis]), was a political paramilitary organization...
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    was later appointed surgeon-major of the Régiment des Gardes françaises (1739) and chief-surgeon at the Hôtel des Invalides. He was a founding member of...
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