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:

    A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by.
    Chinese proverb.

    For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
    To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
    God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
    A glorious angel. Then if angels fight,
    Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)