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  2. British light cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

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    The 13th Light Dragoons at Waterloo. The Napoleonic Wars came to an end in 1815; the list below shows the units which converted or changed from 1815 to 1820/21, as these were the last major changes until the Cardwell Reforms of 1874 and later the Childers Reforms of 1881. [2]

  3. 23rd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons - Wikipedia

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    It was reformed a third time on 10 March 1803 by re-numbering the 26th Light Dragoons, and served in Spain, Egypt and at Waterloo, before being disbanded at Radipole Barracks on 24 November 1817. [3] The 26th Light Dragoons had been raised in 1795 by Major-General Russell Manners. [4]

  4. Dragoon - Wikipedia

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    Mounted Russian dragoon armed with an infantry long gun, c. 1710. Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat with swords and firearms from horseback ...

  5. Invasion of Java (1811) - Wikipedia

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    The invasion of Java was a successful British amphibious operation against Java in the Dutch East Indies between August and September 1811 during the Napoleonic Wars.

  6. Jean Antoine de Collaert - Wikipedia

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    The division was made up of a 1,037-strong brigade that included the 2nd, 6th and 11th Dragoons and an 872-man brigade that counted the 13th and 15th Dragoons. [13] He led a brigade consisting of the 22nd and 25th Dragoons in Lhéritier's 6th Heavy Cavalry Division during the Battle of La Rothière on 1 February 1814. [ 14 ]

  7. Dragoons of the Imperial Guard - Wikipedia

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    The dragoons' uniform and weaponry was the same as those of the Guard's horse grenadiers, only in green rather than blue, and (in place of the bonnet à poil) a copper dragoon helmet with a hanging mane in the Neo-Greek Minerve style, with a red plume. [1] The trumpeters wore a light blue tunic with white lapels and crimson turn backs and collar.

  8. VI Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) - Wikipedia

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    In July 1813 during the Battle of the Pyrenees, Trelliard's 2,300-strong division consisted of the 4th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 21st, and 26th Dragoon Regiments. [4] After the Battle of the Nive in December 1813, all of Trelliard's dragoons and some of General Pierre Benoît Soult 's cavalry were transferred from the Spanish frontier to the campaign ...

  9. Marc Antoine de Beaumont - Wikipedia

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    After Napoleon became emperor, Beaumont led the 3rd Dragoon Division in two major campaigns during the Napoleonic Wars. He led his cavalrymen against Habsburg Austria and Russia in several actions during the War of the Third Coalition in 1805. In the War of the Fourth Coalition, he was present at Jena and fought at Prenzlau and Eylau. In 1809 ...