Foot Guards
Meaning
Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards.
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
A bayonet charge by the Foot Guards then broke them.
The 4th Chasseurs battalion, 800 strong, now came up onto the exposed battalions of British Foot Guards, who lost all cohesion and dashed back up the slope as a disorganized crowd with the chasseurs in pursuit.
Suddenly 1,500 British Foot Guards under Maitland who had been lying down to protect themselves from the French artillery rose and devastated them with point-blank volleys.
Some French troops managed to enter the courtyard.sfn The 2nd Coldstream Guards and 2/3rd Foot Guards arrived to help.