or much earlier, to the 1st century AD and originated there, polo was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king's guard or other elite troops.

He sends a mobile force of comitatenses, ( mostly cavalry ) and a elite guard.

When he reached the capital, the Excubitors, an elite Imperial guard unit led by Phocas's own son-in-law Priscus, deserted to Heraclius, and he entered the city without serious resistance.

Corazzieri ( Cuirassiers ) are an elite corps and honour guard of the President of the Italian Republic, located in the Quirinal Palace.

The Force One is an elite commando force, which is a specialised counter terrorism unit to guard the Mumbai metropolitan area, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, formed by Government of Maharashtra on the lines of National Security Guards ( NSG ).

He was buried alongside his late wife in a state military funeral with full honours, with the Kopassus elite forces and KOSTRAD commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt.

During these maneuvers, there were no engagements save for a minor skirmish between Khalid's elite light cavalry and the Byzantine advance guard.

After taking command, Khalid reorganized the army into 36 infantry regiments and four cavalry regiments, with his cavalry elite, the mobile guard, held in reserve.

Many of the best fighters in the sultan's elite guard, the janissaries, were conscripted as young boys from Christian Albanian families, and high-ranking Ottoman officials often had Albanian bodyguards.

Cleombrotus positioned himself and the spartiate hoplites ( including the elite royal guard of 300 Hippeis ) in the Spartan right wing, the traditional position of honor in Greek armies.

Phantazia was seen as part of Magneto's elite guard.

The leader of the empire is protected by his or her own personal guard, the Imperial Guard, which is made up of the most powerful and elite soldiers from throughout the Empire, and led by a praetor.

In the state capital, Athens, members of the elite Evzones light infantry unit, provide a 24-hour honor guard, with an hourly guard change, at the Presidential Mansion and at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, off Syntagma Square at the foot of the Hellenic Parliament.

* Domesticus ( Roman Empire ), a member of the Domestici, an elite guard unit of the late Roman Empire

His elite personal guard was recognised by pure white, from animals of the royal herd, the inyonikayiphumuli.

In the Middle Ages, in the first use of the term ' marksman ' was given to the royal archers, or bowmen, of a palace guard, which was an elite group of troops chosen to guard a royal palace.

* The Great Mona ' spa Guard was an elite sub branch of the Kingdom of Georgia royal guard, which itself was an elite formation of the Georgian king's army.

Allende's praetorian guard under Cuban-trained commando Ariel Fontana would have had about 300 elite commando-trained GAP fighers at the time of the coup, but the use of brute military force, especially the use of Hawker Hunters, may have handicapped many GAP fighters from further action.

Other Sand animated statues of the ancient gods of Khemri also march with the undead horde such as the mighty Ushabti, the Snake like Sepulchral Stalkers, Warsphinxs which can serve as monstrous mounts by either a squad of elite tomb guard or a Tomb King himself, The most deadly construct in a Tomb King army however is the Giant Necrosphinx, an animated statue capable of decapitating a dragon with a single strike of its ancient blades.

Some of the first accounts mention his career as commander of the Bhayangkara, an elite guard for Majapahit kings and their family.

Napoleon also surrounded himself with the soldiers of his elite guard, required to be 1. 83 m ( 6 ft ) or taller, making him look smaller in comparison.

In the 20th century, Trinity College, St John's College and King ’ s College were for decades the main recruiting grounds for the Cambridge Apostles, an elite, intellectual secret society.

Bentham became convinced that his plans for the Panopticon had been thwarted by the King and an aristocratic elite acting in their own interests.

After the war, Forman attended the elite King George boarding school in the spa town Poděbrady, where his fellow students included Václav Havel, the Mašín brothers and future film-makers Ivan Passer and Jerzy Skolimowski.

Cyrus wanted to place him in the center as the Greeks were his most capable unit, and were thereby most able to defeat the elite Persian cavalry and in the process kill the Great King, thereby gaining the Persian throne for Cyrus.

Bentham remained bitter about the rejection of the Panopticon scheme throughout his later life, convinced that it had been thwarted by the King and an aristocratic elite.

Galway's urban elite enjoyed a measure of their power restored during the reign of the King Charles II ( 1660 – 1685 ) and his successor James II.

Both traditions represent her as an Anglo-Saxon originally of elite birth, perhaps a relative of King Ricberht of East Anglia, the last pagan king there.

The kingdom that is most concerning to the Actionists is that of Anacreon, ruled by Prince Regent Wienis and his nephew, the teenaged King Lepold I. Wienis plans to overthrow the Foundation's power by launching a direct military assault against Terminus, making use of an abandoned Imperial space cruiser redesigned by Foundation experts to fit the needs of the elite Anacreonian navy.

One such came from Nicolaus of Damascus, the court historian for Herod, who wrote that Herod ’ s ancestors were among the historical elite in Jerusalem who had been taken by King Nebuchadnezzar into Babylonian captivity in the sixth century BCE.

* Bearded axe-wielding Easterlings known as Variags, inspired by the elite Viking mercenaries, are described in the fantasy novel Return of the King.

Served in the personal bodyguard of King Richard II as members of Cheshire's elite archers of The White Hart in 1367.

Served in the personal bodyguard of King Richard II as members of Cheshire's elite archers of The White Hart in 1367.

An elite holiday resort and spa town on the shores of Lake Geneva (), for two centuries, it has hosted many Royals such as Kings Edward VII and George V of the United Kingdom and King Farouk of Egypt, and celebrities such as countess Anna de Noailles and Marcel Proust.

First of all there is the ambassador who has returned from the Persian court after many years, complaining of the lavish hospitality he has had to endure from his Persian hosts ; then there is the Persian grandee, The Eye of the Great King, Pseudartabas, sporting a gigantic eye and mumbling gibberish, accompanied by some eunuchs who turn out to be a disreputable pair of effete Athenians in disguise ; next is the ambassador recently returned from Thrace, blaming the icy conditions in the north for his long stay there at the public's expense ; and lastly there is the rabble of Odomantians who are presented as elite mercenaries willing to fight for Athens but who hungrily steal the protagonist's lunch.

The negative reception by a part of the French elite and discrediting of Mesmer by a committee created by the King in France led to a shaky, uncertain reception in Britain.

* Fire ants-These elite soldiers of King thorax can fly and shoot fire.

Ambrose King, in his controversial 1975 paper Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong, described colonial Hong Kong's administration as " elite consensual government ".

Animated for the purpose of either acting as a mount for a Tomb King or a squad of elite Tomb Guard.

Jerle begins the story as captain of the Home Guard, the elite group of Elven soldiers whose sole duty is to protect the King.

Ambrose King, in his controversial 1975 paper Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong, described the colonial Hong Kong's administration as " elite consensual government ".

The RBA includes the Royal Body Guards ( RBG ), an elite branch of the armed forces responsible for the security of the King, the Royal Family, and other VIPs.