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    The Consular Guard (French: Garde consulaire), also known as the Guard of the Consuls (Garde des consuls), was a French military unit responsible for the...
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    origin in the Consular Guard (Garde des consuls), created on 28 November 1799 by the union of the Guard of the Directory (Garde du Directoire exécutif) and...
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    de Babylone. A decree of 28 November reorganized the Garde du Directoire as the Garde des Consuls, but it makes no mention of the Chasseurs. By a decree...
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    Notre-Dame de la Garde (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də la ɡaʁd]; lit.: Our Lady of the Guard), known to local citizens as la Bonne Mère (French...
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    men. After the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, Bonaparte created the Garde des Consuls, which included a company of horse artillery. This company particularly...
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    The Armée des émigrés (English: Army of the Émigrés) were counter-revolutionary armies raised outside France by and out of royalist émigrés, with the...
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    Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (French: Grenadiers à Cheval de La Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard...
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    and -led Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie d'Haïti). In 1934, it was renamed the Garde d'Haiti and returned to Haitian command, before being renamed the Army of...
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    with M. Vallière, France's consul general in Algeria. She also carried dispatches for the naval station and French consuls in the Levant. He saw aristocratic...
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    small republic with its own fleet and army and was administered by two consuls and 12 elected councillors. In 1558, the city's captain Honorat Coste was...
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