How many guys in the Guard?

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I've always wondered how many soliders were in the Queen's palace guard and what number Eugenides wanted to cut their ranks down to. I must've forgotten how to count, because the book does say!

"...one of more than a thousand men standing in orderly blocks across the parade ground, waiting for their captain."

- The King of Attolia (p. 27)

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