In a short time we find William's leading comrades in the war, as earls of Hereford, Buckingham, Shrewsbury, Cornwall; his valiant brothers were endowed with hundreds of fiefs; and when the insurrection which quickly broke out led to new Outlawries and new confiscations, all the counties were filled with French knights.
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)"
Leopold von Ranke
Following the now common direction of all eyes, he discerned a body of mounted and armed men, winding on their way to the encampment, in whose well-known uniform he recognised a detachment of the "Georgia Guard," a troop kept, as they all well knew, in the service of the state, for the purpose not merely of breaking up the illegal and unadvised settlements of the squatters upon the frontiers, upon lands now known to be valuable, but also of repressing and punishing their frequent Outlawries.
"Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia"
William Gilmore Simms