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2nd Cuirassier Regiment (France)

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2nd Cuirassier Regiment
2e régiment de cuirassiers
Unit insignia
Active16 May 1635 - 1991
Country Kingdom of France (1635-1792)
 First French Republic (1792-1804)
 First French Empire (1804-1815)
 Bourbon Restoration (1815-1848)
 France (1848-1991)
BranchHeavy Cavalry
EngagementsThirty Years' War
War of the Spanish Succession

French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
World War I
World War II

Cold War

The 2nd Cuirassier Regiment (French: 2e régiment de cuirassiers or 2e RC) was an armoured unit of the French Army, which originated as a cavalry and then a cuirassier regiment. It was descended from the régiment Cardinal-Duc, which is at the top of the list of twelve cavalry regiments created by the same royal ordnance of 16 May 1635 - this made the 2nd Cuirassier Regiment the oldest surviving cavalry regiment in the French Army, until its disbandment in 1991.

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