Old Guard (disambiguation)
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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, 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
- The Old Guard (film), a 1934 Italian film directed by Alessandro Blasetti
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