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Coldstream, small town, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, on the English border. General Monck raised troops there in 1660 for his march into England that resulted in the restoration of Charles II to the throne. The regiment became known as the Coldstream Guards, one of the regiments of guards of the royal household. Coldstream, like Gretna Green Gretna Green, village, Dumfries and Galloway, S Scotland, on the border with England. It was famous as a place of runaway marriages from 1754, when English marriage law was tightened, until 1856, when a law was passed requiring that one of the parties to marriage in ..... Click the link for more information. , was a marriage resort from 1754 to 1856. Coldstream a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop.: 1813 (2001) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As to Monk, if he had had to reflect, or if he did reflect, it must have been after a sad fashion, for history relates -- and that modest dame, it is well known, never lies -- history relates, that the day of his arrival at Coldstream search was made in vain throughout the place for a single sheep. Do you know a man named Delaney in the Coldstream Guards? The next day it came out in the evening papers that Private Miles, of the Coldstream Guards, on duty outside Marlborough House, had deserted his post without leave, and was therefore courtmartialed. |
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