Belgian light infantry (chasseurs à pied) or light cavalry (chasseurs à cheval) to denote troops trained for rapid action. This branch of the French Army...

d'Éclaireurs à Cheval was attached to the Grenadiers à Cheval, and was thus named the regiment of Éclaireurs-grenadiers. The 2e Regiment d'Eclaireurs à Cheval was...

secured the king's freedom and showed him on a richly decorated horse earning it the name franc à cheval (meaning "free on horse" in French). The obverse...

The Carabiniers-à-Cheval (French for Horse Carabiniers or Mounted Carabiniers) were mounted troops in the service of France. Their origins date back to...

left Egypt to return to France, he took with him a detachment of 180 Guides à cheval and 125 Guides à pied. The men chosen were the most devoted veterans...

Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (French: Grenadiers à Cheval de La Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard...

Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval (French pronunciation: [sikst fɛʁ a ʃ(ə)val]; Arpitan: Hi) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes...

regiments, the Chasseurs à Cheval and the Grenadiers à Cheval, along with a small unit of elite Gendarmes and a squadron of Mamelukes. A third regiment was...

undress uniform was as for the Chasseurs-à-Cheval of the Guard, but of a dark blue cloth. The Gendarmes d'élite wore a blue coat with red lappels, cuffs and...

and Montesa cavalry regiments, against Lasalle's French 10th Chasseurs à cheval and 9th Dragoons. One notable officer serving with the brigade was Carlos...

(French: L'homme à cheval) is a 1943 novel by the French writer Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. It is set in Bolivia and tells the story of a dictator who tries...

général Halna du Frétay 13e Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval (French: 13e Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval) (colonel de Percin Northumberland) Chasseurs Regiment...

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. A French-Portuguese-Italian-Luxembourgish coproduction...

The 2/4th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (Dutch: 2-4 Regiment Jagers te Paard, French: 2/4 Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval) was a cavalry regiment in the...

à Cheval (French: 7e Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval) (Colonel Thornton) 8e Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval (French: 8e Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval)...

Italian Royal Guard Cavalry of the Guard Grenadiers à Cheval (horse grenadiers) Chasseurs à Cheval (light cavalry) Les Mamelukes Gendarmerie d'Elite Artillery...

Battalion (Dutch: Battjon Jagers te Paard) (French: Bataillon de chasseurs à cheval) is a reconnaissance battalion in the Motorized Brigade of the Belgian Armed...

April prescribed amongst other things that the Chasseurs-à-Cheval of the Imperial Guard included a squadron of two companies of Mamluks for the Belgian Campaign...

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silver. The franc à cheval was a gold coin of one livre tournois minted in large numbers from 1360. In 1549, the livre tournois was decreed a unit of account...

Régiment d'Artillerie à Cheval 2éme Compagnie du 5éme Régiment d'Artillerie à Cheval 3éme and 11éme Compagnies du 1er Régiment d'Artillerie à Pied 1er, 2e, 6e...

carefully prepared a countercharge with his reserve and skilfully launched the 12th Chasseurs-à-Cheval frontally, while the 11th Chasseurs-à-Cheval charged the...

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Regiment of chasseurs à cheval. In 1792 he served during the invasion of Savoy, first as colonel of the 12th Regiment of chasseurs à cheval then of the 2nd...

in a major cavalry action, alongside d'Hautpoul's cuirassier division, Walther's dragoons and Bessières's Grenadiers à Cheval and Chasseurs à Cheval of...

(Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale) and Argentina (Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers) established units of Horse Grenadiers, and for a time the British...

régiment de chasseurs à cheval". Following the upheaval of the French Revolution, a delegation of free coloured men presented a petition to the National...

The Rivière de Fer à Cheval is a river of Haiti. It is the primary tributary of the Artibonite River. This means that excess flow of water into the river...

infantry arms (armes à pied) include normal infantry, naval troops, the Foreign Legion and engineers; cavalry arms (armes à cheval) include armoured cavalry...

Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, the senior heavy cavalry regiment of the Imperial Guard. He was made a baron in 1809 and then became a count in...