troop the color

Example Sentences

• "The ceremony of trooping the color is remarkable, if for no other reason, as being the only occasion in peace time when the sergeant-major draws his sword and salutes with it in exactly the same manner as does a commissioned officer."
• "However, back in the seventeenth century trooping was apparently a daily ceremony, when the battalion providing the king’s guard for the day trooped the color, and the Brigade of Guards still perpetuates this old custom during the month of June, when the regiment assigned to guard duty troops the color on the Horse Guards’ parade ground before marching off to the Palace, a display which many onlookers mistakenly take to be a dress rehearsal for the birthday parade."
• "A mixed force of regulars trooped the color; a salute of fourteen guns was fired in Tecumseh’s honor; and speeches (one by Dr. Tecumseh K. Holmes, president of the Kent County Historical Association) recalled his services."
• "After four years in America, it was like stepping back into the eighteenth century: the young recruit shouldered arms, trooped the color, and stood guard outside the royal palace and other important buildings."
• "They even crowned a queen for me the year I was born and trooped the color on my first birthday."
• "But then she would ride back and be immensely proud of her troops because we’d just trooped the color for her and although it’s gone on the same every year, every year’s exciting."