Horse Guards

Horse Guards or horse guards can refer to:

  • A Household Cavalry regiment:
    • Troops of the Horse Guards Regiment of the British Army from 1658-1788
    • The Royal Horse Guards, which is now part of the Blues and Royals
    • The Governor General's Horse Guards, the Household Cavalry regiment of the Canadian Forces
  • Horse Guards (building), a building in Whitehall, London, formerly the headquarters of the British Army
    • Horse Guards Parade, the parade ground behind the building where the Trooping the Colour ceremony is held annually
    • Horse Guards Road, the road between the parade ground and St. James's Park
  • Horse guard wasp, a North American sand wasp which eats horse flies

Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or guards:

    I am a feather on the bright sky
    I am the blue horse that runs in the plain
    I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water
    N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)

    To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.
    Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)