Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
French First Empire: Genoa: Genoa: Téméraire-class ship of the line: For Royal Navy. 25 April United Kingdom: George Parkin Chatham Dockyard: Defence: Vengeur-class ship of the line: For Royal Navy. [15] 27 April United Kingdom: John Wood & Co. Port Glasgow: Caledonia: Paddle steamer: For Caledonia Steam Boat Company. 14 May United Kingdom
Imperial Guard lancer in full regalia, by Édouard Detaille. In 1854, two years after the Second Empire came to power, Napoleon III re-established the Garde Impériale, an elite military corps attached to his person. The Guard took up the traditions of the first Imperial Guard, formed in 1804 by Napoleon I and disbanded in 1815.
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%.
After heavy losses, the Polish lancers were reorganized and took part in the battles of the German campaign in 1813, as at Lützen, Peterswalde, and Hanau, where they lost Major Radziwill. [35] In 1814, during the French campaign, they charged at Brienne, La Rothière, Montmirail, Berry-au-Bac, Craonne, Reims, and Paris.
3rd Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Lithuanian) 4th Infantry Regiment (France) 5th Hussar Regiment (France) 7th Hussar Regiment (France) 9th Hussar Regiment (France) 11th Hussar Regiment (France) 13th Dragoon Regiment (France) 43rd Infantry Regiment (France) 54th Infantry Regiment (France) 77th Infantry Regiment (France)
This is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine Royale before the French Revolution established a republic) were categorised as vaisseaux (literally "vessels") as distinguished from lesser warships such as frigates (frégates).
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 ...