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The 'Old Guard' of Napoleon, what underlying causes led to their creation? "Elites" didn't seem to be a major military idea at the time and Napoleon rose from the artillery, where did the idea to create the imperial guard come from?

by /u/cozyduck in /r/AskHistorians

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