A Regiment of Giants.
Frederick the Great originated the Prussian Guards. His ambition was to form a Royal bodyguard of giants. Every country was ransacked by the agents to supply recruits, and no bead that towered above the crowd, even in the bazaars of Aleppo or Cairo, could escape the crimps of the Prussian King. The most extravagant sums were offered to men of exceptional inches, and an Irishman more than seven feet high, who was picked up by the Prussian Ambassador in London, received a bounty of one thouand three hundred pounds.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 16 April 1915, Page 3
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93A Regiment of Giants. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 16 April 1915, Page 3
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