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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.
The division was made up of a 1,037-strong brigade that included the 2nd, 6th and 11th Dragoons and an 872-man brigade that counted the 13th and 15th Dragoons. [13] He led a brigade consisting of the 22nd and 25th Dragoons in Lhéritier's 6th Heavy Cavalry Division during the Battle of La Rothière on 1 February 1814. [ 14 ]
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 13th Light Dragoons at Waterloo. The Napoleonic Wars came to an end in 1815; the list below shows the units which converted or changed from 1815 to 1820/21, as these were the last major changes until the Cardwell Reforms of 1874 and later the Childers Reforms of 1881. [2]
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.
Abercromby (centre) fights two French dragoons (from an English book) The map of the British plan for the battle Jacques-François Menou. During this time, Menou had devolved command to his subordinates, and was seen gesticulating wildly at the rear "more as if he were a spectator than the commander in chief". [11]
Historic portrait of the founder Raimondo Montecuccoli. The regiment was a cavalry unit raised in the 17th century for the Imperial Habsburg Army.Over time, this unit became the 8th Bohemian Dragoons (Count Montecuccoli's) (Böhmischen Dragoner-Regiment „Graf Montecuccoli“ Nr. 8) within the "Common Army" that formed part of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
The Imperial Guard was created at the start of the First Empire by imperial decree on July 29, 1804, replacing the Consular Guard.It initially comprised three cavalry units: the régiment des mounted chasseurs, the mounted grenadier regiment, and the mameluk company (attached to the mounted chasseurs).