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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 ...
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%.
Regiments that were a part of Napoleon I's Imperial Guard during the First French Empire, between 1804 -1814 and 1815. Pages in category "Regiments of Napoleon I's Imperial Guard" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The Dyle river in Wavre (early 20th century). After the Battle of Ligny, Zieten's Prussian I Corps and Pirch I's [a] II Corps retired to Tilly and Gentinnes. [2]On the night of 16 June, Prussian headquarters ordered the army to fall back to Wavre [2] instead of falling back along lines of communication toward Prussia; by doing so, Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher retained the ...
0–9. 1st Swiss Regiment (France) 2nd Carabinier Regiment (France) 2nd Dragoon Regiment (France) 3rd Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Lithuanian)
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.
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.