Guard Mounting, or Changing the Guard, refers to a formal ceremony in which sentries providing ceremonial guard duties at important institutions are relieved by a new batch of sentries. The ceremonies are often elaborate and precisely choreographed.
Read more about Guard Mounting: Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, India, Italy, Malaysia, Monaco, Norway, Portugal, Russia/USSR, Republic of China (Taiwan), San Marino, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Famous quotes containing the words guard and/or mounting:
“There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboon shot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.”
—P.W. (Pieter Willem)
““Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,
“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”
In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)