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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Lusted View Post
    Source is an Osprey book on Spanish army in late 18th/early 19th century, as well as some pictures from this wonderful site: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypld...itle_id=269277

    Neither really covers the origin of the unit, but I've come across references to Garde/Guardias du/de Corp/Corps in a lot of European armies. Nations seem to have copied the French unit and only slightly changed the name if at all.
    Thanks Jack, I stand corrected.

    For those interested, their name is derived from the French as they were one of the elements & institutions of French inspiration introduced by Felipe V. Seems like many of their troops were of French origin and, like the Lifeguards in the UK, kept very much above and apart from the common soldiery -or even army.

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    Ha! I'm glad to hear those Osprey books were reliable and used as the basis for cool stuff in games even today. It was Koei's L'Emperor on the original Nintendo and those Osprey books that first got me interested in this time period. Well, that and Napoleon's cameo in one of the Bill & Ted movies (Excellent Adventure or Bogus Journey, can't remember which).
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    Nappy was in excellent adventure (the one where they collect various characters from history to use in their history project. That one was also the one that had So-crates!) Bogus journey was the one where they get replaced by robots and play a bunch of board games with the Grim Reaper.

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