What is "footguards"

Usage examples of "footguards".

George comes across the water again, and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square, which is a center of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket-courts, fighting-men, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming-houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.

Smiling, silver-scaled troopers of the principate horseguards and footguards gently pushed the crowds back to make way for the cavalcade with nudges of long, limber poles—Djylz had always forbidden the use of whips or polearms against his folk.

He appeared to belong to one of the regiments of footguards who wore white bands around their caps.