The 1st Polish Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (French: 1er Régiment de Chevau-Légers Lancier de la Garde impériale (Polonais) /...
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The 2e régiment de chevau-légers lanciers de la Garde Impériale (English: 2nd Regiment of Light Cavalry Lancers of the Imperial Guard) was a light cavalry...
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The 3rd Lithuanian Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (French: 3e régiment de chevau-légers lanciers de la Garde impériale (Lituanien)...
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The regiment Lancers of the Imperial Guard was a French cavalry unit of the Second Empire, forming part of the Imperial Guard. Set up in 1855, it was...
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was careful of its use in battle. The Guard was divided into the staff, infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments, as well as battalions of sappers and...
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The Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard (French: Chasseurs à cheval de la Garde impériale) constituted a light cavalry regiment in the Consular, then...
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The Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (French: Grenadiers à Cheval de La Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial...
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a light cavalry squadron of Napoleon's Imperial Guard, in the service of the French Army from 1812 to 1814. The Lithuanian Tatars, descendants of Crimean...
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(the Empress's Dragoons), and the 1st Polish Lancers. The Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard squadron was also considered part of the Old Guard cavalry....
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Hussar (redirect from Gusar light cavalry)
Hungarian: huszár [ˈhusaːr]; Polish: husarz [ˈxusaʂ]; Serbo-Croatian: husar / хусар [xûsaːr]) was a member of a class of light cavalry, originating in Central...
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that front by January 1917. Italy entered the war in 1915 with thirty regiments of line cavalry, lancers and light horse. While employed effectively against...
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Uhlan (redirect from Polish Lancers)
and the 1st Polish Light Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard. The Imperial Guard lancers were armed with Lances, Sabres and Pistols. The lancers of the...
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1st Brigade of the Guard Cavalry Division. At Borodino in 1812 the Cossacks of the Guard included the Lifeguard Cossack regiment (five sotnias), the Black...
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Guard and nicknamed the Hussars-Eclaireurs), were a light cavalry unit of the Imperial Guard, formed by Napoleon I and serving in the French army from 1813...
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The Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard (French: Mamelouks de la Garde Impériale) were a cavalry unit that served in Napoleon I’s Imperial Guard during the...
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The Horse Artillery of the Imperial Guard is a mounted artillery unit integrated into Napoleon I's Imperial Guard. Although it was not formed as a regiment...
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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...
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Grande Armée (redirect from Imperial French Army)
needed] Lancers of the Guard (Chevau-Légers-Lanciers de la Garde Impériale): 1st Light Horse Regiment (Polish): In 1807 Napoleon authorized the raising of a...
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in the process. Other troops served in Napoleon's Imperial Guard and the Polish 1st Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard regiment distinguished...
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the 9th Lancers Regiment 31st Horse Hunters formed on 7 September 1811 from the 1st and 2nd Provisional Light Cavalry Regiments Some of the most feared...
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The Sailors of the Imperial Guard (French: Marins de la Garde Imperiale) were a naval unit within Napoleon's Imperial Guard. The unit's soldiers not only...
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The Guards of Honour (French: Gardes d'Honneur) were light cavalry regiments raised in the French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars in 1813. Napoleon...
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third regiment was recruited from Polish cavalry line regiments serving with the French Army, and was attached to the 1st Lancers of the Guard, also a...
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The 1st Swiss Regiment (French: 1ère Régiment Suisse) was a Swiss mercenary line infantry regiment in the French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars...
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light blue-grey or red plume (or pompons). Their buttons and other metallic elements were silver. The uniform of the Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard...
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Totenkopf (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
under Frederick the Great, who formed a regiment of Hussar cavalry in the Prussian army commanded by Colonel von Ruesch, the Husaren-Regiment Nr. 5 (von Ruesch)...
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Cavalry, the 1st and 2nd Life Guards became the Life Guards. In the line cavalry, sixteen regiments were amalgamated, becoming eight new regiments. The 3rd...
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The Blues – Royal Horse Guards (only British heavy cavalry regiment to wear blue rather than red uniforms) The Blue Horse – 4th Dragoon Guards The Blue...
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The Dutch Grenadiers were a French Imperial Guard regiment during the Napoleonic Wars. They were originally formed out of Louis Bonaparte's royal guard...
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