Life Guards

Life Guards may refer to several military regiments:

  • Life Guards (British Army)
  • Life Guards (Swedish Army)
  • Russian Imperial Guard
  • Garde du Corps (France), during the Ancien Régime
  • Commander-in-Chief's Guard of the Continental Army, commonly referred to as Washington's Life Guards

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