Editing Coldstream Guards (section)

===English Civil War===
The origin of the Coldstream Guards lies in the [[English Civil War]] when [[Oliver Cromwell]] gave Colonel [[George Monck]] permission to form his own regiment as part of the [[New Model Army]]. Monck took men from the regiments of [[George Fenwick (Parliamentarian)|George Fenwick]] and [[Arthur Haselrig|Sir Arthur Haselrig]], five companies each, and on 13 August 1650 formed '''Monck's Regiment of Foot'''.<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://www.coldstreamguards-boro.org/Regimental%20History.htm|title=History of the Coldstream Guards|access-date=26 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906170010/http://coldstreamguards-boro.org/Regimental%20History.htm|archive-date=6 September 2013}}</ref> Less than two weeks later, this force took part in the [[Battle of Dunbar (1650)|Battle of Dunbar]], at which the [[Roundhead]]s defeated the forces of [[Charles II of England|Charles Stuart]].<ref name=history/>

After [[Richard Cromwell]]'s abdication, Monck gave his support to the Stuarts, and on 1 January 1660 he crossed the [[River Tweed]] into [[England]] at the village of [[Coldstream]], from where he made a five-week march to [[London]]. He arrived in London on 2 February and helped in [[English Restoration|the Restoration]] of the monarchy. For his help, Monck was given the [[Order of the Garter]] and his regiment was assigned to keep order in London. However, the new parliament soon ordered his regiment to be disbanded along with all of the other regiments of the New Model Army.<ref name=history/>

Before that could happen, Parliament was forced to rely on the help of the regiment against the rebellion by the [[Fifth Monarchists]] led by [[Thomas Venner]] on 6 January 1661. The regiment defeated the rebels and on 14 February the men of the regiment symbolically laid down their arms as part of the New Model Army and were immediately ordered to take them up again as a royal regiment of '''The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards''', a part of the [[Household Troops]].{{sfn|Harwood|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=nfw_z24jG5AC&pg=PA38 38]}}

The regiment was placed as the second senior regiment of Household Troops, as it entered the service of the Crown after the [[Grenadier Guards|1st Regiment of Foot Guards]], but it answered to that by adopting the motto ''Nulli Secundus'' (''Second to None'') as the regiment is older than the senior regiment. The regiment always stands on the left of the line when on parade with the rest of the Foot Guards, so standing "second to none". When Monck died in 1670, the [[William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608–1697)|Earl of Craven]] took command of the regiment and it adopted a new name, the '''Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards'''.<ref name=history/>

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File:David Morier (1705^-70) - Grenadiers, 1st and 3rd Regiments of Foot Guards and Coldstream Guards, 1751 - RCIN 405597 - Royal Collection.jpg|British Foot Guards in 1751 by [[David Morier]]
File:Robert Orme, by Joshua Reynolds.jpg|Lt Robert Orme (1756) by Sir Joshua Reynolds
File:Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett - Heroes of the Crimean War - Joseph Numa, John Potter, and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards.jpg|Crimean War: Joseph Numa, John Potter and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards
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