Sentence examples for brigade of guards from inspiring English sources

The most famous son of Lantang is the former Nigerian foreign minister, the late General Joseph Garba, who, as commander of the brigade of guards in 1975, played a leading role in overthrowing General Yakubu Gowon as head of state and replacing him with the General Murtala Muhammed.

Mr. Norcross, Rector of Framlingham, to confer a pension, during life, upon the soldier most distinguished in the brigade of guards on that glorious day.

Mosley pointed out that no royal family, no Brigade of Guards.

You never find the Brigade of Guards going short of recruits, do you?

Harold Macmillan once remarked that no sensible man directly challenged the National Union of Mineworkers or the Brigade of Guards.

But Miller's father, Emanuel, went to the City of London School and then Cambridge, and "by 1917 this child of Lithuanian immigrants was in the Brigade of Guards".

For example, the bombing of Saddam's palaces has freed up a brigade of special guards who had been assigned to protect them, and who have now been sent home to await further deployment.

Northern tribesmen loyal to opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh have been battling government forces in the area since March, when they prevented a brigade of Republican Guards, a division of the armed forces led by Mr. Saleh's son, from entering the capital.

His ubiquitous brigade of burly armed guards isn't just for show.

Soldiers from the 108th brigade of the national guard said they had been picking up men escaping from Debaltseve by foot.

On the 20 March, a French emissary arrived at camp of Prince Schwarzenberg, a major general commanding a brigade of the advanced guard.