Old Guard

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Old Guard generally refers to a veteran or group of veterans, a conservative faction, or an older segment of a population. More specifically, the term may refer to:

• Old Guard (France), units of the French Imperial Guard under Napoleon Bonaparte
• Old Guard, the Southern high society in the Reconstruction era of the United States, especially in major cities like Charleston and Atlanta
• Old Guard, a segment of the leather subculture
• Old Guard (Australia), a right wing organisation of the 1920s and 1930s
• Old Guard (Atlanta), a division of the Gate City Guard of Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Old Guard (New York), a ceremonial battalion of New York City infantry veterans, founded 1826
• Old Guard (Philadelphia), a ceremonial battalion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Old Guards (Russia), the collective term for military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Russia
• Bolshevik old guard
• Old Guard faction, an organized grouping in the Socialist Party of America in the early 1930s, which left in 1936 to establish the Social Democratic Federation
• The Old Guard, an American magazine published from 1863 to 1867
• Nickname of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment and its
  • Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps

Films

• The Old Guard (1934 film), Italian film directed by Alessandro Blasetti
• The Old Guard (1960 film), French film

See also

• Alter Kämpfer
• Young Turks (disambiguation)