title: Color Treasury of Model Soldiers: Armies in Miniature
author: Massimo Alberini
description: White cloth hardcover no dust jacket.1972 63p. 12.00x9.00x0.50 PICTURES OF MILITARY MINIATURES; TOYS AND COLLECTOR&apos;S ITEMS; FROM HISTORICAL FIGURINES TO TIN SOLDIERS; PLASTIC AND SINGLE MODELS; PAPER SOLDIERS; SHOWCASES AND DIORAMAS; THE WAR GAME; ARTILLERIE AVEC CANONS;
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  # The Soul of a Regiment
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Talbot Mundy
  
  
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  So long as its colors remain, and there is one man left to carry them, a
  regiment can never die; they can recruit it again around that one man, and the
  regiment will continue on its road to future glory with the same old
  traditions behind it and the same atmosphere surrounding it that made brave
  men of it forbears. So although the colors are not exactly the soul of a
  regiment, they are the concrete embodiment of it, and are even more sacred
  than the person of a reigning sovereign.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  The First Egyptian Foot had colors — and has them still, thanks to Billy
  Grogram; so the First Egyptian Foot is still a regiment. It was the very first
  of all the regiments raised in Egypt, and the colors were lovely crimson
  things on a brand new polished pole, cased in the regulation jacket of black
  wa