Guards

Guards. The Guards are the choice troops of every army, and are generally more heavily armed than other soldiers. In the British army they form the garrison of London, and act as the sovereign's body-guard. They are termed the Household Brigade, and include both cavalry and infantry, the former consisting of the Life (Germ, leib, body) Guards and the Royal Horse Guards (about 1.200 men in all), and the latter of the Grenadier, Coldstream, and Scots Guards (5,000 men).