The Evzones or Tsoliades Corps was officially founded in 1868 as the Presidential Guard of the Greek Army. During the First World War, the Evzones fought as a corps in the form of mountaineers with many of their numbers being emigrants, who returned on the outbreak of war to fight for Greece. By 1915 the Greek Army comprised 41 infantry regiments of which there were 33 line, 5 Evzone, and 3 Cretan.