* 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.

In 2007 the Land Forces consisted of 29, 600 soldiers ( 6th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Grodno ), 11th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Slonim, the former 11th Guards Tank Division ) the 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Minsk ), 38th and 103rd Mobile Brigades ( organized similarly to Soviet airborne regiments, not all of them are equipped with BMD-1 ), 5th Separate Spetznaz Brigade ( Maryina Horka ), five artillery brigades and four regiments, two MRL regiments, 15th, 29th, 115th, 120th and 302nd SAM Brigades, two SSM brigades, two brigades and one regiment of engineers, 8th NBC independent brigade, two signals brigades, 40th independent NBC battalion.

During 1996, the Ministry of Public Security established the Fuerza Pública or Public Force which reorganized and eliminated the Civil Guard, Rural Assistance Guard, and Frontier Guards as separate entities ; they are now under the Ministry and operate on a geographic command basis performing ground security, law enforcement, counter-narcotics, and border patrol functions.

The units that still survive are A Company 231 KRRC ( Paddington ) Rifles ACF, B Company 232 KRRC ( Westminster ) Rifles ACF, C Company 233 KRRC ( Camden ) Rifles ACF and up until recent years D Company 234 KRRC ( Putney ) RGJ ACF, which formed the London Oratory School RGJ ACF unit ( now CCF ) although they were rebadged as Irish Guards in 2010 ( making them the last remaining RGJ unit and also the first Irish Guards CCF unit ).

The Red Guards units are brushed aside like flies.

While the Elite Guards are loyal to her, the male soldiers under her command are skeptical of her choices.

In their role as Fortress Guards they are also responsible for the guarding of the Palazzo Pubblico in San Marino City, which is the seat of national government.

** The Irish Guards are formed by Queen Victoria.

This causes friction between Parliament and the King, whose Dutch Blue Guards are deported.

Due to the advent of modern weapons, and subsequent changes in tactics, Colors are no longer used in battle, but continue to be carried by Color Guards at events of formal character.

Estimates of the death toll, including both civilians and Red Guards, from various sources are about 500, 000 between 1966 and 1969.

There are three household regiments specifically attached to the Royal Household ( the Governor General's Foot Guards, the Governor General's Horse Guards, and the Canadian Grenadier Guards ), as well as two chapels royal in Ontario.

All companies are now associated with The Royal Welsh except for Prestatyn Platoon which is cap-badged ' REME ', Llandudno Platoon and Bangor Platoon which are cap-badged ' Royal Artillery ', Mold and Porthmadog Platoons which are cap-badges ' Queens Dragoon Guards ( QDG )', and Bradley and Benllech platoons which are cap-badged ' Welsh Guards '.

The presence of the two opposing armed forces in Finland, the Red and the White Guards, imposed a state of " dual power " and " multiple sovereignty " on Finnish society, typically the prelude to civil war.

Merchant vessels are typically subject to the regulations and inspections of the Coast Guards of the flag country.

Guards in a list of cases are typically parallel.

By the end of the war, though, Soviet Guards Armies typically enjoyed superior artillery support to that of the shock armies.

During the Cultural Revolution in China ( 1966 – 1976 ), numerous publicly-known figures, especially intellectuals and writers, are reported to have committed suicide, typically to escape persecution, typically at the hands of the Red Guards.

The Worker's Security Guards and Red Guards ( later called solely the Red Guards ) were often recruited through their local party sections and the labour unions, and were armed by the Russians.

Mao often offered vague, yet powerful directives that led to the factionalization of the Red Guards.

In Tibet, over 6, 000 monasteries were destroyed, often with the complicity of local ethnic Tibetan Red Guards.

In his latter years whenever Norman made rare live performances, it would often be accompanied by his brother's band, Softcore ( later renamed Guards of Metropolis ).

Crabtree, a former Rugby League player for league club Bradford Northern who never made an appearance for the first teams due to his fiery temper often forcing him off the pitch early, would have stints as a coal miner and with the British Army's Coldstream Guards before following in his father, Shirley Crabtree, Sr .' s footsteps and becoming a professional wrestler in 1952.

Guards would often withhold mail from home, telling one hostage ( Charles W. Scott ) " I don't see anything for you, Mr. Scott.

The name " War Office " is also often given to the former home of the department, the Old War Office Building on Horse Guards Avenue, London.

During Maoist rule, in the Cultural Revolution, mosques were often defaced, destroyed or closed and copies of the Quran were destroyed along with temples, churches, monasteries, and cemeteries by the Red Guards.

Historically, Irish Guards officers were often drawn from British public schools, particularly those with a Roman Catholic affiliation, such as Ampleforth College, Downside School and Stonyhurst College.

Prior to World War II, hand crafted automatic knives marked Campobasso or Frosolone were often called Flat Guards because of the two-piece top bolster design.

During the Cultural Revolution, mosques along with other religious buildings were often defaced, destroyed or closed and copies of the Quran were destroyed along with temples, churches, Buddhist and Daoist monasteries, and cemeteries by the Red Guards.

As a teenager, Bei Dao was a member of the Red Guards, the enthusiastic followers of Mao Zedong who enforced the dictates of the Cultural Revolution, often through violent means.

Confederate Home Guards in the county were poorly disciplined and often used their uniforms as excuses to settle old grudges.

The most radical students often found themselves in conflict with more conservative Red Guards.

* In Hong Kong, TVB and ATV often depicted the brutality of the Red Guards in films and television dramas.

The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution ( /, or Sepāh for short ), often called Revolutionary Guards, is a branch of Iran's military, founded after the Iranian revolution.

He later served in the Preobrazhensky Life Guards, according to his father ’ s and uncles ’ wishes, but military life was not to his liking, and he soon resigned his commission, having reached only the lowly rank of praporshchik ( often translated as “ ensign ”).

Nikiforova, often known by her nickname Marusya, was a Ukrainian anarchist leader who put together the first Black Guards cell in the city of Alexandrovsk in the Ukraine.

The Black Guards were often said to have, Robin-Hood-like goals of wealth redistribution.

The Governor General's Foot Guards, a Canadian Primary Reserve Unit, have often been called upon to perform additional public duties in Ottawa since their inception in 1872.

The display is often accompanied by the Mounted Band of the Blues and Royals ( Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons ).

Guards watched throughout the night, except at Alexander's bedchamber, which was at the top of a ladder with a ferocious chained dog guarding the door.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

To the south the Dutch Guards, under the command of Colonel Wertmüller, came forward with their two field guns to seize the hamlet of Franquenée.

The Anglo-Dutch commanders now sent dismounted Dutch dragoons into Taviers, which, together with the Guards and their field guns, poured concentrated musketry-and canister-fire into the advancing French troops.

De la Colonie, with his Grenadiers Rouge regiment, together with the Cologne Guards who were brigaded with them, was now ordered forward from his post south of Ramillies to support the faltering counter-attack on the village.

The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.

The Marquis de Maffei attempted one last stand with his Bavarian and Cologne Guards, but it proved in vain.

Léon requested permission be granted to women to arm themselves with pikes, pistols, sabers and rifles, as well as the privilege of drilling under the French Guards.

The decisive cleavage between the two guards broke out during the general strike, when the radical elements of the Red Guards and Worker's Security Guards executed several political opponents in the main cities of southern Finland, and the first armed clashes between Civil Guards and Workers ' Guards broke out, with 34 reported casualties.

The Red Guards controlled the area to the south, including nearly all the major industrial centres, and the largest estates and farms with high numbers of crofters and tenant farmers.

He co-operated with White Russian officers in Finland and Russia, and recognized the lack of combat skills of the Red Guards.

The Red Guards seized the early initiative in the war, taking control of Helsinki, the capital, in the early hours of 28 January, and gaining first advantage with an " attack phase " that lasted till mid-March.

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed between Russia and Germany on 3 March, effectively restricted the Bolsheviks ' ability to support the Finnish Red Guards with anything more than weapons and supplies.

The leaders of the White Guards faced a similar problem with drafting young men to the army in February 1918: 30, 000 obvious supporters of the Finnish labour movement never showed up.

The Red Guards lost 1, 000 – 1, 500 soldiers, with a further 11, 000 – 12, 000 captured.

A civil war between the Finnish Red Guards and the White Guard ensued a few months later, with the " Whites " gaining the upper hand during the springtime of 1918.