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The dragoon division was made up of the 3rd, 6th, 10th, 11th, 15th, and 25th Dragoon Regiments. Kellerman had no more than 3,000 cavalry and 12 guns immediately available. [ 12 ] This authority omitted the 6th and 11th Dragoons, listed Lorcet as leading only the 3rd Hussars and 15th Chasseurs, and stated that the other four dragoon regiments ...
3rd Dragoon Guards Regiment: 525: 0: 3 4th Dragoon Regiment: 545: 0: 12 2nd Brigade Major General Stapleton Cotton (989 or 1,189) 14th Light Dragoons: 464: 1: 15 16th Light Dragoons: 525: 0: 14 3rd Brigade Brigadier General George Anson (910) 23rd Light Dragoons: 459: 0: 207 1st Hussars, KGL: 451: 4: 37 Artillery Reserve Brigadier General ...
The capture of Rheinfelden (1633). The Spanish empire was one of the most powerful in the world and one of largest in history.. The military history of Spain, from the period of the Carthaginian conquests over the Phoenicians to the former Afghan War spans a period of more than 2200 years, and includes the history of battles fought in the territory of modern Spain, as well as her former and ...
The Provisional Cavalry regiments were created by assembling the depot squadrons, all conscripts, from as many as four different regiments. [7] Honoré Charles Reille 's division was a mass of second-class units cobbled together from National Guards, provisional battalions, Swiss, and a "French" regiment from recently annexed Tuscany . [ 8 ]
Franceschi's 2,200 horsemen included the French 8th Dragoon Regiment, the 22nd and 1st Provisional Chasseurs a Cheval Regiments, and the Hanoverian Chasseurs. The 3,000 men and two cannons of Martinengo's 2nd Division of the Army of Galicia belonged to a mix of regular and militia battalions.
A large proportion of the Spanish army (which by the later half of the 16th century was entirely composed of tercio units: The Tercio of Savoy and the Tercio of Sicily were deployed in the Netherlands to quell the increasingly difficult rebellion against the Habsburgs. Ironically, many units of the Spanish tercios became part of the problem ...
1st Line Regiment "Toledo" 1st Light Regiment "Castile" Royal Foreign Regiment; Cavalry (670 total) 1st Spanish Chasseurs à Cheval; 2nd Spanish Chasseurs à Cheval; Guadalajara Hussars; Army of the North [8] Mixed detachment (800) Artillery One battery (93) Total King Joseph's Spanish Army: 6,438 (5,250 infantry, 1,095 cavalry, 93 artillery)
Map of the battlefield. The Battle of Salamanca (in French and Spanish known as the Battle of the Arapiles) took place on 22 July 1812. An Anglo-Portuguese army under the Earl of Wellington (future Duke of Wellington) defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles, south of Salamanca, Spain, during the Peninsular War.