Much satisfaction is felt that her Majesty has adopted the suggestion made in several quarters that the gallantry of Irish soldiers in South Africa should be marked by the formation of a regiment foot- Irish jo why it is that we have been without such regiment until now; but historians of the army remind us that when Charles IL established the Grenadiers and Coldstreams and Scots Guards he did also form a regiment of Irish Guards. But during the subsequent reign, Tyreonnel, while Commander-in-Chief' in Treland, weeded all the Prote-tants out of the rosie ment and replaced them by Roman Catholics. The result was that when the Revolution came the Trish Guards sided with James If, and eventually the services of six companies were transfereed to Germany and seven to France. The French Regiment remained in existence down to the time of the Great Revolution but in this country there has been no regiment of Irish Guards since 1688.
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