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French voltigeurs crossing the Danube before the battle of Wagram. The voltigeurs were French military skirmish units created in 1804 by Emperor Napoleon I. [1] They replaced the second company of fusiliers in each existing infantry battalion. [2] The voltigeurs moniker later saw use with other militaries.
The 9th Light Infantry Regiment (9e régiment d’infanterie légère) was a French army regiment. One of the most notable infantry regiments in the Napoleonic Wars, it was awarded the title "Incomparable" by Napoleon Bonaparte after their brilliant performance at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800.
Napoleon's Regiments: Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792–1815. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1853674136. OCLC 43787649. Smith, Digby (2006). An illustrated encyclopedia of uniforms of the Napoleonic wars : an expert, in-depth reference to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1792 ...
About to fight on French soil for the first time since the French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon decided to reorganize the Imperial Guard. In Article 1 of a decree of 4 December 1813, he created three regiments of Éclaireurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale (mounted scouts of the Guard) as counterparts to the Cossacks.
Horse carabinier's uniform before 1809 Horse carabinier as of 1809. The corps of Carabiniers was a group of heavy cavalry originally created by Louis XIV.From 1791 to 1809, their uniforms consisted of a blue coat with a blue piped red collar, red cuffs, lapels and turnbacks with white grenades, red epaulettes with edged white straps, red cuff flaps for the 1st Regiment, blue piped red for the ...
3 battalions of 1st Voltigeurs; 3 battalions of 2nd Voltigeurs; 2nd Brigade Picard 3 battalions of 3rd Voltigeurs; 3 battalions of 4th Voltigeurs; Artillery 12 guns; Cavalry Louis Morris 1st Brigade Marion 4 squadrons of 1st Cuirassiers; 4 squadrons of 2nd Cuirassiers; 2nd Brigade de Champeron 4 squadrons of Dragoons
The Veterans Company of the Imperial Guard (French: Compagnie des Vétérans de la Garde Impériale) was a veterans and invalides unit of the French Imperial Guard serving under Napoleon Bonaparte in the Napoleonic Wars. The company was formed initially in July 1804 at the strength of one company, but in 1811 was expanded to two companies and ...
Many armies contained other light troops other than the officially designated 'light infantry'. These units fought as dedicated skirmisher units ahead of the main force, such as the French Voltigeurs, German Jäger and British riflemen, with the 95th Rifles being a well-known example of the latter,