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    The Consular Guard (French: Garde consulaire), also known as the Guard of the Consuls (Garde des consuls), was a French military unit responsible for the...
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    of Russia. The Guard had its origin in the Consular Guard (Garde des consuls), created on 28 November 1799 by the union of the Guard of the Directory...
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    The Guard Staggers). Headley 1851, pp. 11–28, Chapter I. The origin of the Imperial Guard—Plan on which it was first constituted—The Consular Guard of...
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    the Imperial Guard (French: Grenadiers à Cheval de La Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard during the French...
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    column of Ott's soldiers marching from the north and so he deployed his Consular Guard infantry to delay it. The French then withdrew steadily eastward toward...
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    everything!". When Napoleon was crowned emperor on 2 December 1804, the Consular Guard's Marine battalion consisted of 820 officers, non-commissioned officers...
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    November 1813, by Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duke d'Albuféra. The Consular Guard or Garde consulaire was created by Bonaparte on November 28, 1799, through...
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    of the Imperial Guard") was a gendarmerie unit formed in 1801 by Napoleon as part of the Consular Guard which became the Imperial Guard in 1804. In time...
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    Imperial Guard (French: Chasseurs à cheval de la Garde impériale) constituted a light cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard during the...
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    Arch-Chancellor of State. As commander of the Imperial Guard (successor to the Consular Guard), Eugène preceded his stepfather to Milan ahead of Napoleon's...
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    Egypt, rising to become a General of Division and commandant of the Consular Guard Édouard Mortier, a capable commander who served with great distinction...
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  • campaigns. In September 1800 he was given command of a battalion of the Consular Guard. In 1803 he became colonel of the 10th Infantry regiment, which he led...
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    Ligne Advance Guard: Joseph Antoine Marie Michel Mainoni 28th Demi-brigade de Ligne Attached units: 12th Hussars, 2 batteries, Consular Guard artillery Corps:...
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    Jean-Baptiste Bessières (category Commanders in the French Imperial Guard)
    present at the Battle of Marengo (1800) as second-in-command of the Consular Guard. General Jean Lannes, commanding a corps at Marengo, felt that Bessières...
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    The Praetorian Guard (Latin: cohortes praetoriae) was an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents...
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    fought on the Rhine and in Italy as a captain. After a stint in the Consular Guard as a major, he became colonel of the 9th Light Infantry Regiment in...
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    music regimental bands, particularly of the high prestige units such as the guards had as many as 32 (in the Preobrazhensky regiment) or more fifers. Some...
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    Louis-Nicolas Davout (category Commanders in the French Imperial Guard)
    Napoleon's extended family, and gave him a command in the grenadiers of the Consular Guard. At the ascension of Napoleon as emperor in 1804, Davout was named as...
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  • needed] The Imperial Guard (Garde impériale) was one of the most elite military forces of its time, and grew out of the Consular Guard (Garde consulaire)...
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    departure from the Constitutional Guard, he reported to the Committee of Surveillance of the Constitutional Assembly that the Guard was guilty of treason and...
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    of division and commandant of the Consular Guard. Back with the Armée d'Italie, Lannes commanded the advanced guard in the crossing of the Alps in 1800...
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    fog and drizzle..." "Space marines, arms reversed and heads bowed, stood guard around [the coffin]..." Prucher, Jeff (2007), "space marine", Brave New...
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    of the Imperial Guard") was a gendarmerie unit formed in 1801 by Napoleon as part of the Consular Guard which became the Imperial Guard in 1804. In time...
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    Territory of Trieste, Zone A. 1948: Jerusalem (British Mandate): A Marine consular guard was sent to Jerusalem to protect the U.S. Consul General.[RL30172] 1948:...
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    Bonaparte, and he was appointed commander of the Elite Gendarmes of the Consular Guard. Savary played an role in uncovering the details of the Georges Cadoudal-Pichegru...
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    soldiers of Lannes and Murat were behind Victor, and Monnier and the Consular Guard were at Bonaparte's headquarters. Desaix with Boudet's division had...
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    honour bestowed upon Corporal Bonnet, of the Mounted Grenadiers of the Consular Guard, for distinguished conduct at the Battle of Marengo, on display at the...
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    but autonomy within the Qing empire. It did, however, increase its consular guard in Urga to protect the returning delegation. The Russian minister in...
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    citizens in need of consular help in a country without diplomatic or consular representation of their own country may turn to any consular or diplomatic mission...
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    National Guard Headquarters Protection & Support Battalion 22nd Diplomatic Missions & Consular Posts of Foreign States Protection Brigade National Guard Air...
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