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Encyclopedia > Historical Irish Guards regiments

This article deals with Irish Guards historical regiments. For the current British Army regiment, see Irish Guards. Official name Irish Guards Colonel-in-Chief HM Queen Elizabeth II Colonel-of-the-Regiment James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn Nicknames Bobs Own The Micks Motto Quis Separabit (Who Shall Separate Us) Anniversaries Saint Patricks Day (17 March) Marches quick: St Patricks Day slow: Let Erin Remember...


Previous Irish Guards regiments in Crown service

Colours Cross of Saint George with Crowned Lion (No 'Irish' symbols as in direct Crown Service).'Bold text''This is an incorrect statement and has no factual reference' Definition: Crown service is superior to Dynastic Service and as such neither Guelph or Stuart and yet both Guelph and Stuart or a mixture of both!This is an incorrect statement and has no factual reference Crown service is valid to pretenders (see Charles II during the English Republic), and to countries and this contributor holds that the Crown Service of the Irish Guards to The Kingdom of Ireland was unbroken by the Treaty of Reiswick which closed St Germaine en Laye the Stuart enclave in Royal France, and which was in part aimed at embarrasing the Stuart Succession. The Coat of Arms of Queen Anne, the last British monarch of the House of Stuart The House of Stuart or Stewart was a royal house of Scotland and later Great Britain. ...


This article is entirely subjective and may have no basis on historical facts. these are the views of one person with their own specific view & agenda, applying modern politics to past history with no agreement from Historians,the article has no proper referencing or authoritive notes....excluding the partial quotes(not actual internationally recognised use of references is given in the article)


The "Irish Guards of the Dublin Parade 28 May 1662"'s foundation commission is shared with the 1st Grenadier Guards and is as follows: where is a link to the source document? Breda, June 24, 1649 "You are to receive such men as shall be delivered to you on shipboard as part of a Regiment to (sic Irish?) Kings Guards, and you to command them as Sergeant Major to the said Regiment, and on your landing in Ireland .. obey.. The marquis of Ormond, the Lieutenant General of the Kingdom of Ireland. For Major Edward Broughton, Major in the Kings Guard of Foot." Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... // Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ...


Further on April 23, 1662. "And whereas we have already constituted and appointed James, Duke of Ormond to be the Govenor of our Kingdom of Ireland,...And whereas We have thought to raise within our Kingdom of Ireland a regiment of 1200 foot to be our Regiment of Guards within the said Kingdom of Ireland." Charles II authorised Cusack's Regiment to be enrolled in England after shipping from Dunkirk and the antient Spanish Subsidised Flanders service of the Loyalist British Regiments (mostly Irish seduced from Royal France's superior conditions to serve the Crown) prior to the Restoration of May 28, 1660. Being Irish the regiment of Irish Guards had to wait till May 28, 1662 before marching into Dublin. potentially misleading representation of the facts can lead to readers confusion if they are not fully aware of the context of the complicated nature & history of Irish Regiments within the British armed forces April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... Events March 18 – Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England – as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ...


The Irish Guards may also be actually contained within the 1st Grenadier Guards, and by Loyal Stuart Service in The Royal Irish Regiment (sharing the Grenadier Guards Commission from Charles II above) and the 92e Regt of Infantry 'en service de France' (sharing the attempt at the Treaty of Reiswick to destroy the Stuart Succession and the Irish Guards), and also within the USS Bonhomme Richard's Marine Company (by virtue of the joint Congressional and Irish Guards under Colonel-in-Chief Walsh. Commissioning of John Paul Jones's Marine Company of Irish Guards on the 1st Bonhomme Richard, which captured HMS Serapis.'potentially misleading representation of the facts can lead to readers confusion if they are not fully aware of the context of the complicated nature & history of Irish Regiments within the British armed forces' The first USS Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Durae, was a east indiaman, a merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765, for service between France and the Orient. ... John Paul Jones John Paul Jones (July 6, 1747–July 18, 1792) was Americas first well-known naval hero in the American Revolutionary War. ... HMS Serapis was a British frigate launched by the Royal Navy in 1779. ...


The 1900 Irish Guards are an Irish Guards Regiment in the service of the Guelph to Windsor Dynasty of 1688. This is a modern political statement and not related to historical facts


An Irish Guards Regiment anterior to all these was eliminated in the Civil War against the English Republican Army at the Battles of Nasby and possibly Worcester.)


Historical Fact: The army at Worcester was a Scottish Army serving Charles II it contained no Irish Regiments, The National Archives in Kew have many records in regards to armies & memoirs and are the primary source for any historian


External links

  • Please read [1] After some constitutional remarks contains further information on these Irish Guards based upon original sources by quotation wherever possible.
  • And please read a little article at [2] for some illustrations.
  • [3] should be read as well for to be fair it actually mentions the 1662 Irish Guards but with an establishment bias arising from the time of writing as this article which appeared in "The Graphic" on November 24, 1900.

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Irish Guards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4205 words)
The Irish Guards were one of the units of the rearguard during the retreat and took part in a small-scale action at During the retreat, the 1st Irish Guards took part in a small-scalle action at Landrecies against the advancing Germans.
The 1st Irish Guards were at Maubeuge when the armistice was signed, it was near to where the Irish Guards began their war in 1914 at Mons, yet there would not be many survivors of that first battle by the 11 November.
On the 21 April, at a village known as Wistedt in Northern Germany, Guardsman Charlton of the 2nd Irish Guards, was a co-driver of a tank during the capture of the village by a small number of the Irish Guards.
Guards sections of the regiment (934 words)
A detachment formed of men from the three regiments of Foot Guards was formed and sent for service in America in 1776.
Guards regiments also wore red woolen coats, but you can distinguish these Household regiments by the facings of dark blue, with distinctive patterns of lace and arrangement of buttons.
The First Foot Guards are more commonly known today as The Grenadier Guards, a tile that was given to them for their valor in the Peninsular War (Napoleonic times).
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