7 sentences with “guards”

Caligula was eventually assassinated by a group of senators and guards.

Young revolutionary guards came in and rudely ordered people to show their documents.

Slaves even served as clerks in public bureaucracies, as well as in the police and city guards.

On 14 July, a mob in search of arms invaded the Bastille, a royal prison and arsenal, and killed its guards.

An exceptional case was that of a force of archers used as city guards in Athens who were slaves from Scythia (present-day Ukraine).

These prisoners were treated differently by German and auxiliary guards depending on who they were and where they came from, and were actively encouraged to treat each other differently on the basis of these distinctions as well.

There was no such thing as a police force, after all, only the guards of the rich and powerful and, usually, a city guard who answered to the city council. However, the latter was often controlled by powerful families, so that both law enforcement and personal vendettas were generally carried out by private mercenaries.