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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 ...
The French cuirassiers cavalry soldiers still wore the same uniforms of the Napoleonic period, that had nearly unchanged in one hundred years. Adolphe Messimy, Minister of War, wisely claimed ‘This stupid blind attachment to the most visible of colours will have cruel consequences’.
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1805, Cuirassiers Before the Charge (French: 1805, Les Cuirassiers avant la charge), also known as Cuirassiers of 1805, before battle or 1805, is an 1878 painting by Ernest Meissonier depicting a line of Napoleonic cuirassiers before making a cavalry charge. It is on display at the Musée Condé, in Chantilly.
Napoleon's Regiments: Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792–1815. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1853674136. OCLC 43787649. Smith, Digby (2006). 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 ...
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Cuirassier du Roi, 1780. Known as 8e régiment de cavalerie after the French Revolution, they were one of the few European cuirassier regiments in the late 18th century who still wore breast and back plates. By the French Revolutionary Wars at the end of the 18th century, the use of body armour had declined to virtual extinction.
Cuirassiers (/ ˌ k w ɪr ə ˈ s ɪər / KWIRR-ə-SEER; from French cuirassier [1], 'wearing a cuirass') were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols. Cuirassiers first appeared in mid-to-late 16th century Europe as a result of armoured cavalry, such as men-at-arms and demi-lancers discarding their lances and adopting pistols as ...