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An imperial guard is an elite group of soldiers that is charged with the task of protecting a country's leader. Napoleon, for example, is known to have utilized an imperial guard.
Unlike Napoleon, US Civil War generals were not anxious to adopt a tactic used successfully by Napoleon. This was the use of a "specialized reserve" he called the Imperial Guard that was specially designed to enter a battle at a certain crisis stage and change the course of a battle. The reserves used by US Civil War generals were not like Napoleon's Imperial Guard. Under Napoleon, this force was designed to strike a crushing blow at the psychological moment an enemy had already been weakened. Napoleon would first clear the way for his Guard by artillery. The Imperial Guard would then seize the main position, and lastly his cavalry would enter and exploit any opportunity the first two stages had created.
The Imperial Guard and specifically the Middle Guard according to Marshall Ney. The Old Guard formed with three Battalions as the second line of attack but were never committed. Why they were not ordered to attack remains unknown. Perhaps Napoleon foresaw their destruction and chose to spare them the humility of their only defeat.
Imperial Guard - Japan - was created in 1867.
Hobgoblin - Imperial Guard - was created in 1977.
Titan - Imperial Guard - was created in 1977.
Napoleon built a formation known as the Garde Imperiale. (The Imperial Guard) The formation was added to with the Young Guard in time. He is usually pictured in the undress uniform of the Chasseur a Cheval de la Garde. There was also a Squadron of Mameluks, a reminder of Egypt, but these men were about as Egyptian as I am !
The cast of Dead Mine - 2012 includes: Ijul as Imperial Guard Rizky as Imperial Guard Saiful as Imperial Guard Afwan as Imperial Guard Horaz as Pirate Ushe Badu as Pirate Ario Bayu as Captain Tino Prawa Yanda Djaitov as Papa Rustam Effendi as Mutant POW Sam Hazeldine as Stanley Byron Hulbert as Lead Imperial Guard Chief Jumino as Pirate Ahyar Kuniawan as Imperial Guard Vernon Lewis as Lead Imperial Guard Trever Love as Lead Mutant POW Les Loveday as Warren Price Miki Mizuno as Rie Kosmas Muda as Imperial Guard Davide Nicolosi as Imperial Guard Chris Nolte as Lead Imperial Guard Khairil Putra as Imperial Guard Faizal Razali as Headphones Pirate Fernando Reinaldo as Pirate Carmen Soo as Su-Ling James Taenaka as Ryuichi Joe Taslim as Djoko Sony Tobing as Imperial Guard
The latest Imperial Guard codex was released on May 2nd 2009
Imperial Guard is a term for the soldiers who guard an Emporer or a King. This term has been used with Napoleon's troops and the King/Queen of England, Czar of Russia. In the 18th Century, many kings wanted an army of troops who were dedicated to him and would prevent the civilians or the army leaders from over-throwing him.For more modern countries, the Imperial Guard troops were men specially selected to guard the King. This was not an honorary position.In Napoleon's army, he established a complete army of Imperial Guard troops that included cavalry, infantry, artillery and engineers. These acted as his special shock troops in battle. He would keep them in reserve and only use them to exploit a victory or when needed. He still had an elite group of troops who were his personal escort. These were light cavalry called the Chasseurs de la Guard.The Imperial Guards for England provide protection for the Queen and her palaces. They are considered military troops and the soldiers do serve in war. During WW2, there was a Guards Division that consisted of battalions from the various Guards regiments. The British Guards consist of 2 cavalry regiments and 5 infantry regiments. The infantry regiments may look identical but there are variations in button spacing and insignia and plumes to distinguish each one.The 5 British Guards Regiments are:Grenadier GuarrdsColdstream GuardsScots GuardsIrish GuardsWelsh Guards.Imperial Guard could also refer to a miniatures wargame where the Imperial Guard are the main army of the Imperium of Man which spans thousands of worlds. They are kept busy holding of alien menaces, traitors, and demons on all sides. There are millions of guardsmen for every planet in the Imperium. I did not include the name of the game for fear of using copyrighted text.
Imperial guard would win.
It varies depending on how you arm them. Read Codex Imperial Guard for full info.