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The Empress's Dragoons of the Imperial Guard (French: Dragons de l'Impératrice de la Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry unit formed by Napoleon I through the decree of April 15, 1806. The " dragoon " regiments of the line had distinguished themselves in the German campaign of 1805 , and therefore Napoleon decided to reorganize the cavalry ...
The regiment was established in 1808 by the Prince Regent and future King of Portugal, John VI, with the duty of protecting the Portuguese royal family, which had sought refuge in Brazil during the Napoleonic wars. However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were ...
The VI Cavalry Corps of the Grande Armée was a French military unit that had an ephemeral existence during the Napoleonic Wars.The corps was created on 9 February 1814 and General François Étienne de Kellermann was appointed as its commander.
An illustrated encyclopedia of uniforms of the Napoleonic wars : an expert, in-depth reference to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1792-1815. London Lanham, Md: Lorenz North American agent/distributor, National Book Network. ISBN 978-0-7548-1571-6. OCLC 60320422. Frederick, J. B. M. (1984).
At the beginning of the War of the Fourth Coalition, the Reserve Corps under Murat included the 1st and 2nd Cuirassier Divisions, still commanded by Nansouty and d'Hautpoul, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Dragoon Divisions under Klein, General Emmanuel de Grouchy, Beaumont, and General Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc respectively, and a light cavalry division led by Lasalle. [8]
During the French Revolutionary Wars he fought in the 1796 Italian campaign under Napoleon Bonaparte, leading the cavalry at Lodi and Castiglione. In 1799 he was wounded in Italy but fought there again in late 1800. After Napoleon became emperor, Beaumont led the 3rd Dragoon Division in two major campaigns during the Napoleonic Wars.
Another regiment, the Clermont-Tonnerre Regiment (Noah's Regiment) was incorporated into the regiment, recently pulled out of the War of the Austrian Succession, now reentering combat. The royal decree of January 1791, reorganized the Cavalry of the French Army. The Bourbon Dragoon Regiment was renamed the Bourbon Regiment of Dragoons.
Invasion of France, 1814: The Final Battles of the Napoleonic First Empire. Leonaur. ISBN 978-1-84677-579-6. Meeks, Joshua (2019). Napoléon Bonaparte: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1538113516. Nafziger, George (2015). The End of Empire: Napoleon's 1814 Campaign. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company.