Brewer's: Coldstream Guards

One of the three regiments of Foot Guards. It was originally under the command of Colonel Monk (1650-1660), and in January, 1660, marched under him from Coldstream in Berwickshire with the object of bringing back Charles II. to the throne.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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