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Imperial Guard lancer in full regalia, by Édouard Detaille. In 1854, two years after the Second Empire came to power, Napoleon III re-established the Garde Impériale, an elite military corps attached to his person. The Guard took up the traditions of the first Imperial Guard, formed in 1804 by Napoleon I and disbanded in 1815.
The Éclaireurs of the Guard (French: Éclaireurs de la Garde) was a Corps of cavalry scouts of the French Imperial Guard, which included three cavalry regiments created by Napoleon when he reorganised the Imperial Guard following the disaster of the French invasion of Russia. [1] The Corps was created in Article I of the decree of 4 December ...
The Imperial Guard was created at the start of the First Empire by imperial decree on July 29, 1804, replacing the Consular Guard.It initially comprised three cavalry units: the régiment des mounted chasseurs, the mounted grenadier regiment, and the mameluk company (attached to the mounted chasseurs).
Regiments that were a part of Napoleon I's Imperial Guard during the First French Empire, between 1804 -1814 and 1815. Pages in category "Regiments of Napoleon I's Imperial Guard" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The same year, the Red Lancers fought at Waterloo. [1] [2] Even though Dutch-Belgian cavalry commander Jean Baptiste van Merlen, one of the most highly ranked and celebrated army officers of the regiment, lost his life at Waterloo, some of the original Dutchmen still existed in the ranks, and would serve as Red Lancers long after the French ...
0–9. 1st Swiss Regiment (France) 2nd Carabinier Regiment (France) 2nd Dragoon Regiment (France) 3rd Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Lithuanian)
The French "Levée en masse" method of conscription brought around 2,300,000 French men into the Army between the period of 1804 and 1813. [4] To give an estimate of how much of the population this was, modern estimates range from 7 to 8% of the population of France proper, while the First World War used around 20 to 21%.
3 e Régiment Etranger d'Infanterie (3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment), Unités des départements et territoires d'Outre Mer Français (Units in French overseas departments and territories) - Kourou (French Guiana). 4ème Régiment Etranger (4th Foreign Regiment), Castelnaudary, France, (Education regiment)