Only the cavalry of the Republican Guard and a ceremonial fanfare detachment of trumpeters for the cavalry / armoured branch as a whole are now mounted.

Haiti, however, played no role in the war except for supplying the United States with raw materials and serving as a base for a United States Coast Guard detachment.

This detachment ( which became today's Red Guard of Senegal ) was the cadre around which the " Colonial Gendarmerie " was formed.

In military organizations, the Color Guard ( or Colour Guard ) refers to a detachment of soldiers assigned to the protection of regimental colors.

The Coast Guard allowed a detachment of KGB agents to board the cutter, and subsequently arrest Kudirka, taking him back to the former Soviet Union.

After the fall of Atlanta, a detachment of Sherman's cavalry was sent to raid the county ; but the Confederate Home Guard, made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Yankee raiders at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town.

In December 1928, Puller was assigned to the Nicaraguan National Guard detachment, where he was awarded his first Navy Cross for his actions from February 16 to August 19, 1930 when he led " five successive engagements against superior numbers of armed bandit forces.

Thus, in 1920, the Georgian army and People ’ s Guard together comprised 16 infantry battalions ( 1 army division and a NG regiment ), 1 sapper battalion, 5 field artillery divisions, 2 cavalry legions, 2 motor squadrons with 2 armored car detachments, air detachment and 4 armored trains.

A few days after Hurricane Katrina, Jefferson used a Louisiana National Guard detachment to recover personal effects and belongings from his home.

After the truck in which he and the detachment traveled became stuck, the Guard helicopter aided Jefferson's party while rescue operations were still ongoing.

Perhaps the most notable of these performances was in 2000, when the Band accompanied a detachment of the Australian Federation Guard to the United Kingdom where, as part of the celebrations of the centenary of Australia's federation, the AFG mounted the Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace, while the RMC Band provided the Guards Band.

A detachment of the Varangian Guard was sent and in the Battle of Cannae, the Greeks achieved a decisive victory.

* Spain maintains a cavalry detachment as part of the Spanish Royal Guard ; they wear cuirasses and are sometimes known as cuirassiers ( Spanish: Coraceros ).

In 2000, to commemorate the centenary of its original foundation, a mounted detachment of eighteen members from Lord Strathcona's Horse ( Royal Canadians ) was invited to London, where, in ceremonial full-dress, they mounted the Queen's Life Guard at the Horse Guards on seven days between 8 and 23 September.

The Straits are patrolled by a detachment of the United States Coast Guard based at Graham Point, St. Ignace.

Maranatha's ROTC detachment, Charlie Company of Badger Battalion, partners with the University of Wisconsin to produce United States Army Officers for the Active, Reserve, and National Guard components.

Penarth had its own Home Guard detachment manned by those who were too old or unsuited for military service.

The Guard alternated with the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, with each service providing a detachment on each day.

* The 1st Battalion 119th Field Artillery of the Michigan National Guard, with members directly descended from the 30-strong detachment of Rogers ' Rangers stationed in Fort Detroit ; and

Druchii infantry primarily consist of spear phalanxes and repeater crossbow regiments, which are supported by elite infantry and shock troops, such as the deadly Har Ganeth Executioners, who wield two-handed blades called Draich, heavily armed Corsair raiders, scores of Witch Elves that enter battle in a drug-crazed killing frenzy, or a detachment of Malekith's personal guard, the implacable and lethal Black Guard.

The Royal Guard is normally divided in two parts, the main guard stationed at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, and a smaller detachment at Drottningholm Palace.

* Denmark is divided into Western and Eastern Air Force Home Guard Districts FHD, led by professional full-service Squadron Leaders, plus a detachment on Bornholm.

Color Guard of the 1st Fusiliers Marins | Naval Fusiliers of the French Navy at the 2008 Bastille Day Military Parade, Paris.

* British Army: the Royal Horse Artillery ; Household Cavalry Regiment ; Life Guards ( motto appears in the Garter Star representation worn on Life Guard officer's helmets rather than in the unit badge ); Blues and Royals ; Grenadier Guards *; Princess of Wales ' Royal Regiment ; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers ; Corps of Royal Engineers ; and the Royal Logistic Corps ( which in April 1993 became an amalgamation of the trades of five corps, which included the Royal Corps of Transport and the Royal Army Service Corps plus the Postal and Courier Services of the Royal Engineers, all of these forming Corps used the motto inscribed garter in their badge ).

After that conflict, in April 1955, the Air Guard acquired its first special operations unit when the 129th Air Resupply Squadron was federally recognized and two C-46 Commandos were delivered to it at Hayward, California.

Commandos have also formed up the Guard of Honour for important visitors to the Istana, although this task has been increasingly taken over by the Singapore Armed Forces Military Police Command due to the irrelevance to its official duties.

Under the reign of Abdallah, Denard was commander of the Presidential Guard ( PG ) and de facto ruler of the country.

Queen Margrethe II is the de jure Commander-in-Chief per the Danish constitution, however according to the Danish Defense Law the Minister of Defence serves as the commander of the Danish Defence ( through the Chief of Defence and the Defence Command ) and the Danish Home Guard ( through the Home Guard Command ).

However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were sent to Brazil, initially to escort shipments of gold and diamonds and to guard the Viceroy who resided in Rio de Janeiro ( 1st Cavalry Regiment – Vice-Roy Guard Squadron ).

The Brigada Especial de Seguridad Militar ( BESM ) is a unit of the armed forces that replaced the National Guard ( El Salvador ) in accordance with the peace accords of January 1992.

The Marquis de la Fayette took up command of the National Guard at Paris.

* 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

* 1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.

In 1945, the Corps de la Garde Grand Ducale ( Grand Ducal Guard Corps ), garrisoned in the Saint-Esprit barracks in Luxembourg City and the 1st and 2nd Infantry Battalions were established, one in Walferdange and the other in Dudelange.

He also created a Royal Police Guard for Rio de Janeiro in 1809.

* June 26 – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France ( b. 1530 )

This unit decided to adopt the title " National Guard ," in honor of Lafayette's celebrated Garde Nationale de Paris.

In 1663 in retaliation for the attack led by the Corsican Guard on the attendants of the Duc de Créqui, the ambassador of Louis XIV in Rome, he attacked and seized Avignon, which at the time was considered an important and integral part of the French Kingdom by the provincial Parliament of Provence.

** Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France ( d. 1574 )

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The first political prisoner to be executed was Collenot d ' Angremont of the National Guard, followed soon after by the King's trusted collaborator in his ill-fated attempt to moderate the Revolution, Arnaud de Laporte, both in 1792.

During the Second World War RAF aircraft that were secret or carrying secret equipment had "/ G " ( for " Guard ") appended to the serial, denoting that the aircraft was to have an armed guard at all times while on the ground, e. g., LZ548 / G — the prototype de Havilland Vampire jet fighter, or ML926 / G — a de Havilland Mosquito XVI experimentally fitted with H2S radar.

The motto of the city is: ( Spanish ) " Muy Noble y muy Leal Ciudad de Jaén, Guarda y Defendimiento de los Reinos de Castilla ", ( English ) " Very Noble and very Loyal City of Jaen, Guard and Defense of the Kingdoms of Castile ".

As head of the National Guard, he was de facto ruler of the country from 1967 to 1979.

However, as head of the National Guard, he remained the de facto ruler of the country.

Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale | Horse Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard ( Napoleon I ) | Imperial Guard during the Battle of Eylau by Édouard Detaille.