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| Tango01 | 22 Mar 2019 1:07 p.m. PST |
"This set claims to cover the years 1804 to 1807, and during this time the Guard was mostly made up of three units, the Preobrazhenski, Semenovski and Izmailovski regiments. The first two had famously been created by Peter the Great, and the third was added to the Guard in the 1730s by Empress Anna. Their role was much the same as imperial guards in other armies of the day – they were an ‘elite' formation favoured by the monarch, but with much wider responsibilities than simply protecting them. For long periods in the 18th century they were not taken into combat, but for the Napoleonic Wars they saw a good deal of action…."
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