BRIGADE OF GUARDS.
GRENADIERS. Battle Honours—Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Lincelles, Corunna, Barossa, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol, Egypt (1882), Tel-el-Kebir., Suakin (1885), Khartoum. Uniform —Scarlet with blue facings, bearskin busby. The Grenadier Guards.—"Tho Coalheavers" they were once called—are a combination of the Royal Regiment of Guards formed in 1656 for the service of Charles 11., and the King's Regiment of Foot Guards. They are first on the roll of the British infantry. It has been said of tho regiments of Foot Guards that their annals, indeed, may almost be said to be identical with those of the British Army. Their serried ranks stood firm at Fontenoy, turned the tide of battle at Quatre Bras, withstood, unshaken, the assaults of Napoleon's brilliant chivalry at Waterloo, and ascended, with stately movement, the bristling heights of the Alma." The mere phrase, "the Guards at Inkerman," recalls a brilliant achievement.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10883, 6 February 1901, Page 8
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