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  2. Uniforms of La Grande Armée - Wikipedia

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    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. 3rd Foot Grenadier Regiment of the Imperial Guard - Wikipedia

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    When the Dutch Grenadiers were added to the Imperial Guard they had worn their original Dutch royal guard uniforms. They were among the few units to use white uniforms in the French Army after the French Revolution. Afterwards the white main colour was kept though numerous adjustments were made. Cuffs, collar and lapels were crimson.

  4. 2nd Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Dutch)

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    They were given a new scarlet uniform (copied, except the colour, from the Polish lancers uniform). [1] [2] They also received a new leader - Col. Baron Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais - under whom they were known formally as the 2nd Light Horse Lancers of the Imperial Guard (2 e régiment de chevaux-légers des Lanciers de la Garde ...

  5. Royal Netherlands Army - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Netherlands Army (Dutch: Koninklijke Landmacht, KL) is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces.Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the Staatse Leger was raised making the Dutch standing army one of the oldest in the world.

  6. Dutch Brigade (Peninsular War) - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch Brigade (Dutch: Hollandse Brigade) was a unit of the Royal Army of the Kingdom of Holland. King Louis Bonaparte sent the brigade in September 1808, to take part in the Peninsular War on the French side at the request of his brother Emperor Napoleon of France.

  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. Regiment de Meuron - Wikipedia

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    The Seringapatnam battle (1799) - After 1796, the regiment changed from a blue Dutch uniform to the British red. In August 1799, Colonel the Count De Meuron was breveted a Major-General in the British Army. [3] Colonel Pierre Frederick Count De Meuron was breveted a Major-General in the Army, effective 1 January 1798. The order was issued in ...

  9. Military history of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The Batavi (Batavians) were a Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, reported by Tacitus to have lived around the Rhine delta, in the area which is currently the Netherlands, "an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side" (Tacitus, Histories iv).