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Coldstream Guards

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One of the three regiments of Foot Guards. It was originally under the command of Colonel Monk (1650–1660), and in January, 1660, marched under him from Coldstream in Berwickshire with the object of bringing back Charles II. to the throne.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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