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Throughout the century, there was a general tendency to the expansion of the army. In 1691, it contained 12 regiments of infantry, 3 of dragoons and 2 of cavalry; in 1747, it exceeded 32 regiments of infantry, but the cavalry continued to be formed of 2 regiments, while the dragoons had expanded to 5 regiments. With respect to numbers, we know ...
In November 1814, the six squadrons were grouped into three divisions. On 11 April 1814, Napoleon abdicated and one month later, on 20 May 1814, King Victor Emmanuel I returned from exile in Sardinia to Turin. On 13 June 1814, one of the regiment's division was sent to Piedmont as the first cavalry unit of the reformed Royal Sardinian Army. [4] [5]
On 9 March 1855, the regiment's 1st Squadron was assigned to Provisional Cavalry Regiment for the Sardinian expeditionary corps, which deployed to Crimea for the Crimean War. On 16 August 1855, the Provisional Cavalry Regiment fought in the Battle of the Chernaya. After the Crimean War the regiment was repatriated and, on 18 June 1856 ...
The Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Sardinian War, the Austro-Sardinian War, the Franco-Austrian War, or the Italian War of 1859 (Italian: Seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana; German: Sardinischer Krieg; French: Campagne d'Italie), [3] was fought by the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859 and played a crucial part in the ...
As one of the Royal Sardinian Army's light cavalry regiments, the regiment's troops were armed with sabre and musket. The regiment's members wore an azure colored uniform with white ornaments. The troops also received azure sabretaches embroidered with the white cross of Savoy and azure shabracks for their horses.
On 3 January 1850, the Royal Sardinian Army formed the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Alessandria" in Casale Monferrato.To form the new regiment the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Novara" ceded its 5th Squadron and 6th Squadron, which became the new regiment's 1st Squadron respectively 2nd Squadron, while the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Aosta" ceded its 5th Squadron and 6th Squadron, which became the new ...
On 20 June 1866, the Third Italian War of Independence between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire began. During the war the Regiment "Lancieri Vittorio Emanuele" formed, together with the Regiment "Lancieri di Firenze" and Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Monferrato", the II Cavalry Brigade of the IV Corps of the Army of the Po, which operated along the Po river.
The cavalry brigade consisted of the regiments Regiment "Savoia Cavalleria" and Regiment "Lancieri di Novara", and the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment. On 1 February 1938 the III Cavalry Brigade "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" was dissolved and the brigade's units came under direct command of the division. [11]