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Trumpeter in full regalia and soldier in Imperial Guard lancers' coat, 1857, by Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq. The trumpets are dressed in reversed colors, with a blue habit and white breastplate. The czapka is made of white cloth, and the scarlet plume is replaced by a white plume on the upper part and a sky-blue plume on the lower part.
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 ...
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%.
Siborne, William (1844), History of the War in France and Belgium, in 1815 (2nd ed.), London: T. & W. Boone: Volume 1 and Volume 2 (4th and 5th editions published as The Waterloo campaign, 1815). This edition shows "Appendix" in uncut version; (1848): 3rd edition published in one book.
Re-created in 1815 during the Hundred Days, the 2nd Regiment of Chasseurs on Horse of the Young Guard saw its proposed uniform, proposed by General Lefebvre-Desnouettes, adopted by the Emperor on May 26, 1815. The following day, Lefebvre-Desnouettes drew up the order prescribing the dress to be given to officers and troops.
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 unit again took an active part in the German campaign of 1813 and the French campaign of 1814, before being disbanded by royal decree on 12 May 1814 and transferred back to the line regiments. The régiment d'artillerie à cheval de la Garde was reformed in 1815 during the Hundred Days and took part in the Belgian campaign .
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