Old Guard (disambiguation)

Old Guard (usually prefaced with "the", and sometimes pluralized) may refer generally 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 A conservative, reactionary faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas
• Old Guard, units of the French Imperial Guard under Napoleon Bonaparte
• Old Guard, the Reconstruction-era Southern US aristocracy, especially in major cities like Charleston and Atlanta
• Old Guard, the more conservative and usually older 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, USA
• 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 distinguished military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Russia
• 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
• 3rd US Infantry Regiment, nicknamed "The Old Guard"

See also

• Alter Kämpfer
• Young Turks (disambiguation)