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ARegiments

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Abbreviations

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Abbreviations used in the lost below include:

  • IF -> Initial Formation (date which the unit was formed, but not necessarily the name it is known as)
  • FD -> Formation Date (date which the unit was formed as it would be known, ie: date where the Light Cavalry of the Guard becoming the Mounted Grenadiers) – also used when a unit is adopted into a certain corps or the French Army
  • F1 -> First Formation (date which the unit was first formed) [up to whatever number is needed]
  • D1 -> First Disbandment (date which the unit was first disbanded) [up to whatever number is needed]
  • RF -> Reformation Date (date which the unit was reformed)
  • FR -> First Bourbon Restoration note
  • SR -> Second Bourbon Restoration note

Imperial Guard

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Note: units will not include the suffix 'of the Imperial Guard" for this list.

The Imperial Guard (La Garde Impériale) rather ironically contained some of the youngest regiments in Napoleon's army. Their history is thus relatively short and simple compared to the ancient regiments of the line, many of which were raised in the 1500 and 1600s. The life span of most of the Guard regiments was also very short, while certain units were attached to the Guard in 1813, for example the Saxon Life Grenadier Guard Regiment (Sasiche Liebgrenadiergarde Regiment) and a battalion of Polish grenadiers, but therese were not part of the guard and in-turn, didn't wear the guard button.

Whilst in 1804 all the existing Guard regiments (those of the Consular Guard) were presented with colours, it seems that in 1813 this was not the case. According to some accounts, only the 1st and 2nd Grenadiers; 1st and 2nd Chasseurs; Mounted Grenadiers; Mounted Chasseurs; Mamelukes; and the 1st and 2nd Lancers were given new colours in the 1812 style. Colours or standards (but no eagles) were presented to the 3rd Foot Grenadiers (ex Royal Dutch Guard), in addition to the Empress's Dragoon Regiment, Mounted Chasseurs, 3rd Lancers, and Elite Gendarmes, which all had standards but no eagles or new regimental colours of the 1812 variant.

Guard Cavalry

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Guard Cavalry
Unit Information Image Precedence (Old, Middle, or Young) Unit History Notable Personality(ies)
Corps Sub-Corps Name
Predecessor Unit Formation Date(s) Disbandment Date(s) Successor Unit Notable Battles
Heavy Cavalry
Mounted Grenadiers Regiment Napoleon Guard Horse Grenadier by Bellange Old Guard Light Cavalry of the Consular Guard[a] IF: 2 December 1799[b]

FD: December 1800

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 23 July 1814

SR: 23 November 1815

Royal Cuirassiers Corps of France
  • Battle of Austerlitz
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Dragoon Regiment (Empress's) FD: 15 April 1806

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 12 December 1815

Royal Dragoon Corps of France
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Friedland (1806)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Light Cavalry
Light Cavalry Regiment Old Guard[c] 2 March 1807 7 July 1809 1st Light Cavalry-Lancers Regiment (Polish)
  • Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Somosierra (1808)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
Light Cavalry–Lancers Regiment[d] Old Guard Elba Squadron (1st Polish Lancers) and Royal Lancers Corps 8 April 1815 20 September 1815
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
1st Light Cavalry–Lancers Regiment (Polish) Light Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard 7 July 1809 12 May 1814[e][f]
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
2nd Light Cavalry–Lancers Regiment (Dutch) Middle Guard Hussars and Cuirassiers of the Dutch Royal Guard (Kingdom of Holland)[g] FD: 13 September 1810

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 12 May 1814[h]

SR: 20 September 1815

Royal Corps of Light Cavalry–Lancers of France[i]
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
3rd Light Cavalry–Lancers Regiment (Lithuanian) 5 July (or 12 September) 1812 22 March 1813 absorbed into 1st Light Cavalry–Lancers (Polish)
  • Battle of Slonim (1812)
Mounted Chasseurs[j] 1st Mounted Chasseurs Regiment[j] Old Guard Mounted Chasseurs of the Consular Guard IF: 2 December 1799

FD: 1813[j]

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 28 July 1814

SR: 26 October 1815

FR: Royal Mounted Chasseurs Corps of France

SR: Chasseurs Regiment of the Royal Guard

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • François Louis de Morland
  • Jean Baptiste Isidore Martin
2nd Mounted Chasseurs Regiment[j][./User:Coldstreamer20/List_of_French_Imperial_Army_units_and_formations#cite_note-Chasseur_split-10 [lower-alpha 10]][lower-alpha 11][lower-alpha 11] Young Guard 1813[j] FR: 28 July 1814

SR: 26 October 1815

Guards of Honour Corps Staff Young Guard 3 April 1813 12 May 1814
1st Guards of Honour Regiment 3 April 1813 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
2nd Guards of Honour Regiment 3 April 1813 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
3rd Guards of Honour Regiment 3 April 1813 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
4th Guards of Honour Regiment 3 April 1813 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
Scouts Corps Staff Young Guard 29 March 1813 12 May 1814
1st Regiment of Scouts (Scouts-Grenadiers) 29 March 1813 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
2nd Regiment of Scouts (Scouts-Dragoons) 29 March 1813 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
3rd (Polish) Regiment of Scouts (Scouts-Lancers) 29 March 1813 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
Mamelukes Old Guard Kléber's Mamelukes – Mamelukes of the Republic IF: 25 September 1799 (as Kléber's Mamelukes)

FD: 13 October 1801 (as Mameluke Squadron)

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: May 1814[k]

SR: N/A

  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808)
Auxiliaries
Cossacks Lithuanian Tatars Unaffiliated October 1812 April 1814
  • Battle of Wilno (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1814)
Krakow Light Cavalry Regiment before August 1813 April 1814
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
Light Cavalry Regiment of the Grand Duchy of Berg (Grand Duchy of Berg) 21 May 1807 1813
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
Gendarmerie Troops[l] Elite Gendarmerie Legion[m] Old Guard FD: 19 March 1802

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 23 April 1814

SR: after June 1815

  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Dos de May Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Ordnance Gendarmes Company of Old Guard Ordnance Gendarmes Old Guard 6 companies 23 September 1806 23 October 1807
Company Middle Guard Ordnance Gendarmes Middle Guard

Guard Infantry

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Guard Infantry
Unit Information Uniform Precedence (Old, Middle, or Young) Unit History Notable Personality(ies)
Corps Sub-Corps Name
Battalions Predecessor Unit/Former Names Formation Date(s) Disbandment Date(s) Successor Unit Notable Battles
Grenadiers
Foot Grenadiers 1st Regiment of Foot Grenadiers Old Guard 1 battalion /

2 battalions (1804, 1815) /

3 battalions (1813)

Guard of the National Assembly (1789) → Grenadiers of the National Gendarmerie (1792) → Grenadiers of the National Convention (1792) → Grenadiers of the Directorate (1795) → Grenadiers of the Consular Guard (1799) → Foot Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (1804) IF: 20 June 1789

FD: 10 May 1804

11 September 1815 Royal Grenadier Corps of France
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1814)
2nd Regiment of Foot Grenadiers Middle Guard 2 battalions (1809, 1811, 1815) /

3 battalions (1813)

1F: 15 April 1806

2F: 18 May 1811

RF: 8 April 1815

24 September 1815
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
3rd Regiment of Foot Grenadiers (Dutch) 2 battalions Grenadiers of the Dutch Royal Guard (Kingdom of Holland)[g] 13 September 1810 11 May 1811
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Vilnius (1812)
  • Battle of Kovno (18120
  • Ralph Dundas Tindal
  • Joseph Arthur Dufaure du Bessol
3rd bis Regiment of Foot Grenadiers 8 April 1815 24 September 1815
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
4th Regiment of Foot Grenadiers 9 May 1815
Veterans Old Guard 1 company /

2 company (from 1807)

1 July 1814 1 July 1814
Grenadiers
Fusiliers Fusiliers–Grenadiers Regiment Middle Guard 2 battalions /

3 battalions (1813)

Vèlites–Grenadiers Regiment (1806) → 2nd Fusiliers Regiment (1806) → Fusiliers–Grenadiers (1809) 19 September 1806 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Montrimrail (1814)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Jean-Parfait Friederichs
  • Pierre Bodelin
  • Jean-François Flamand
  • Pierre Léglise
  • Adrien Bourgogne
  • Claude Noisot
Fusiliers–Chasseurs Regiment Fusiliers Regiment (1806) → 1st Fusiliers Regiment (1806) → Fusiliers–Chasseurs Regiment (1809) 15 December 1806
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Somossierra (1808)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
Vélites Florence Battalion of Vélites 1 battalion 24 March 1809
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
Turin Battalion of Vélites
National Guard Regiment Young Guard 2 battalions 1 January 1810 15 February 1813 7th Voltigeur Regiment
  • Battle of Aranda (1812)
Regiment of Pupils[1] 3 battalions /

9 battalions (1812) /

4 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1814)

Dutch Legion of Vélites (1809) IF: 1809

FD: 1 September 1810

12 May 1814[n]
  • Battle of Zuylihen (1813)
  • Battle of Graves (1814)
  • Étienne Alexandre Bardin
  • Bernard-Jean-Cornelis Dibbets
Light Infantry[o]
Chasseurs 1st Regiment of Foot Chasseurs Old Guard 1 battalion /

2 battalions (1804, 1814, 1815) /

3 battalions (1813)

Light Infantry Company of the Consular Guard (1799)[2] → Foot Chasseurs of the Consular Guard (1800) → Foot Chasseurs Regiment of the Imperial Guard (1804) → ranked 1st from 1806–1809 and again from 1811–1815 IF: 2 December 1799

FD: 1804

RF: 8 April 1815

11 October 1815 Royal Foot Chasseur Corps of France
  • Battle of Marengo (1800)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Eckmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Jean-Jacques Kessel
  • Pierre-André-Hercule Berlier
  • Jean-Baptiste-Jacquest-Alexandre Le Boursier
2nd Regiment of Foot Chasseurs Middle Guard 2 battalions (1806, 1811, 1815) /

3 battalions (1813)

1F: 15 April 1806

2F: 18 April 1811

RF: 8 April 1815

1D: 1809

FD: 11 October 1815

  • Battle of Iena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
3rd Regiment of Foot Chasseurs 2 battalions 6 April 1815 1 October 1815
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
4th Regiment of Foot Chasseurs 9 May 1815
  • Christophe Henrion
Tirailleurs Tirailleurs–Grenadiers 1st Regiment of Tirailleurs–Grenadiers Young Guard 2 battalions 16 January 1809 30 December 1810 1st Regiment of Tirailleurs
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
2nd Regiment of Tirailleurs–Grenadiers 25 April 1809 2nd Regiment of Tirailleurs
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
Tirailleurs–Chasseurs 1st Regiment of Tirailleurs–Chasseurs Young Guard 2 battalions 16 January 1809 1st Regiment of Voltiguers
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
2nd Regiment of Tirailleurs–Chasseurs 25 April 1809 2nd Regiment of Voltigeurs
Tirailleurs (regiments) 1st Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

1st Regiment of Tirailleurs–Grenadiers FD: 30 December 1810

RF: 28 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1815

SR: after June 1815

  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
2nd Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png 2nd Regiment of Tirailleurs–Grenadiers FD: 30 December 1810

RF: 28 March 1815

  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
  • Jacques Paul Clément Vesu
3rd Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png 1st Regiment of Conscript-Grenadiers FD: 10 February 1811

RF: 29 March 1815

  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
3rd bis Regiment of Tirailleurs elements from Regiment of Pupilles 17 January 1813 March 1813
4th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

2nd Regiment of Conscript-Grenadiers FD: 10 February 1811

RF: 28 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: after June 1815

  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
4th bis Regiment of Tirailleurs elements from Regiment of Pupilles 17 January 1813 March 1813
5th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png 18 May 1811 FR: 12 May 1814

SR: after June 1815

  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Vertus (1815)
5th bis Regiment of Tirailleurs elements from Regiment of Pupilles 17 January 1813 March 1813
6th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

FD: 28 August 1811

RF: 28 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: after June 1815

  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Auguste de Contamine
6th bis Regiment of Tirailleurs elements from Regiment of Pupilles 17 January 1813 March 1813
7th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png 17 January 1813 FR: 12 May 1814

SR: after June 1815

  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
8th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png 23 March 1813
  • Battle of Dresden (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
9th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

6 April 1813 FR: 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Antwerp (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
10th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Antwerp (1814)
11th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
12th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png
13th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
14th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png Raised from the old Grenadiers of the Spanish Guard (Kingdom of Spain) 11 January 1814
  • Battle of Paris (!814
15th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png
16th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png
17th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

18th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png 21 January 1814
19th Regiment of Tirailleurs File:1er Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Imperiale.png
Voltigeurs Voltigeurs (regiments) 1st Regiment of Voltigeurs Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

1st Tirailleurs–Chasseurs Regiment FD: 30 December 1810

RF: 28 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
2nd Regiment of Voltigeurs 2nd Tirailleurs–Chasseurs Regiment
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
3rd Regiment of Voltigeurs 1st Conscript Chasseurs Regiment FD: 10 February 1811

RF: 28 March 1815

  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Claude Suisse, Baron de Saint Claire
3rd bis Regiment of Voltigeurs elements from Regiment of Pupilles 17 January 1813 March 1813
4th Regiment of Voltigeurs Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

2nd Conscript Chasseurs Regiment FD: 10 February 1811

RF: 28 March 1815

RF: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Jean Françoise Teisseire
4th bis Regiment of Voltigeurs elements from Regiment of Pupilles 17 January 1813 March 1813
5th Regiment of Voltigeurs FD: 18 May 1811

RF: 28 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Kovno (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
5th bis Regiment of Voltigeurs elements from Regiment of Pupilles 17 January 1813 March 1813
6th Regiment of Voltigeurs Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

FD: 28 August 1811

RF: 28 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Jean Jacques Castanié
  • Joséph Leclerc
6th bis Regiment of Voltigeurs elements from Regiment of Pupilles 17 January 1813 March 1813
7th Regiment of Voltigeurs National Guard of the Imperial Guard FD: 15 February 1813

RF: 12 May 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

  • Battle of Aranda (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • François Louis Zaepffel
8th Regiment of Voltigeurs FD: 23 March 1813

RF: 12 May 1814

  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Antoine Joséph Scrétan
9th Regiment of Voltigeurs Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

6 April 1813 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
10th Regiment of Voltigeurs
11th Regiment of Voltigeurs
12th Regiment of Voltigeurs
13th Regiment of Voltigeurs Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

  • Battle of Antwerp (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
14th Regiment of Voltigeurs 11 January 1814 12 May 1814
15th Regiment of Voltigeurs
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
16th Regiment of Voltigeurs
17th Regiment of Voltigeurs Young Guard 2 battalions / 3 battalions (1813) /

2 battalions (1815)

21 January 1814 12 May 1814
18th Regiment of Voltigeurs
19th Regiment of Voltigeurs
Flankers Regiment of Flankers-Grenadiers Young Guard 2 battalions 4 September 1811 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
Regiment of Flankers-Chasseurs
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (14)

Guard Artillery

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Guard Artillery Corps
Unit Information Image Precedence (Old, Middle, or Young) Unit History Notable Personality(ies)
Corps Sub-Corps Name Uniform
Size Predecessor Unit/Former Names Formation Date(s) Disbandment Date(s) Successor Unit Notable Battles
Guard Artillery Corps Headquarters Guard Artillery Headquarters Old Guard Headquarters of the Artillery of the Consular Guard (1799) (Commanders-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard Artillery):[3]
Artillery of the Old Guard
Horse Artillery Horse Artillery Regiment of the Old Guard Old Guard 3 squadrons (6 companies) /

4 companies (from 1808)

Light Artillery of the Consular Guard (1799) → Light Artillery of the Imperial Guard (1804) IF: 2 December 1799

FD: 15 April 1806

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 7 November 1815

  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Horse Artillery of the Young Guard[p] Young Guard 1 company (attached to Horse Artillery Regiment of the Old Guard) late 1813 12 May 1814
Foot Artillery Foot Artillery Regiment of the Old Guard Old Guard 4 companies /

8 companies (1810) /

9 companies (1812) /

6 companies (1815)

FD: 7 April 1808

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 29 October 1815

  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Foot Artillery Regiment of the Young Guard[p] Young Guard 3 companies /

16 companies (1813)

June 1809 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • François Joseph Henrion
Artillery Support
Guard Artillery Park Artillery Train Guard Artillery Park FD: 1807

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: after June 1815

1st Artillery Train Regiment Old Guard 1 battalion /

2 battalions (1808 [1st and 1st bis][q]) /

3 battalions (1813)

Artillery Train Company of the Consular Guard (1800) → Artillery Train of the Imperial Guard (1804) → Artillery Train Battalion of the Imperial Guard (1806) → 1st Artillery Train Battalion of the Imperial Guard (1808) → 1st Artillery Train Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Old Guard) (1813) IF: 8 September 1800

FD: 10 May 1804

12 May 1814
  • Battle of Marengo (1800)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Bailen (1808)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Valladolin (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • François Joseph Henrion
  • Henri-Antoine Bon de Lignim
  • Charles-Clement Leroy
Artillery Train Squadron[r] 10 companies 8 April 1815 1 December 1815
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
2nd Artillery Train Regiment[s] Young Guard 2 battalions /

3 battalions (1813)

2nd Battalion, Guard Artillery Train 1808 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Bailen (1808)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
Military Equipment Train Battalion Old Guard 6 companies 5th (Transport) Company, Guard Artificer Battalion FD: 24 August 1811

RF: 8 April 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: after June 1815

  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Pierre Gubert
Materiel Park FD: 1813

RF: 8 April 1815

  • Jean-François Boulart
Company of Artificers and Pontoniers Artificiers Old Guard 1809

RF: 8 April 1815

12 May 1814
Pontonniers
Artillery Veterans Young Guard 1 company January 1812 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Reims (1814)

Guard Support

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Guard Support Troops
Unit Information Image Precedence (Old, Middle, or Young) Unit History Notable Personality(ies)
Corps Sub-Corps Name Uniform
Size Predecessor Unit/Former Names Formation Date(s) Disbandment Date(s) Successor Unit Notable Battles
Guard Corps of Engineers[t][4]
Battalion of Sappers Sappers Staff Old Guard 1 company / 2 companies (1813) / 4 companies (1814) Paris Fire Brigade FD: 1810 (since 1804 as Engineers)

RF: 15 April 1815

FR: 14 May 1814

SR: returned to civilian service

Paris Fire Brigade
  • François Joseph Kirgener
  • François-Nocolas Haxo
  • André Barthélémy Boissonnet
Sappers of the Old Guard 2 companies
Sappers of the Young Guard Young Guard 1 company /

2 companies (1814)

FD: 1813 / 1814

RF: 15 April 1815

Miners Old Guard FD: 1810

RF: 15 April 1815

Drivers of Engineers[u]
Support Arm
Imperial Guard Staff Administration Staff Administration Workers Old Guard 15 April 1806 unknown
Imperial Navy Imperial Naval Corps Sailors Battalion[5] Old Guard Sailors Battalion of the Consular Guard IF: 3 June 1803

FD: 29 July 1804

RF: 19 May 1815

FR: 23 April 1814

SR: 4 September 1815

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Iena (1806)
  • Siege of Danzig (1807)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Bailen (1808)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Commissariat & Supply Department Battalion of Artificers Old Guard 5 companies / 4 companies (1812) Services of the Imperial Guard 1806 5th Company made independent as the Guard Equipment Train
Medical Service Medical Train

Cavalry

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Heavy Cavalry

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Carabiniers & Cuirassiers

Among the cavalry regiments that Napoleon took over when he became First Consul of France in late 1799 were 25 of heavy cavalry (cavalerie de battaille), literally "Cavalry of Battle" and two of carabiniers (carabiniers à cheval) literally "Carabiniers on Horse". Originally big men on tall, powerful horses, the heavy cavalry had declined greatly in efficiency during the Revolutionary Wars: France could not provide them with suitable remounts and – compared to the showier hussars and chassuers – they had trouble attracting recruits.

Napoleon solved this problem by dissolving the 7 highest numbered regiments and reassigning their men and horses to the remaining 18. The strongest horses and men of all 25 regiments went into the first 12, which he converted to cuirassiers. The remaining 6 regiments became dragoons. The 2 carabinier regiments were retained and built up with men from the elite companies of the disbanded regiments.

As originally uniformed, the first 6 cuirassier regiments had scarlet facings, the other 6 bright yellow. The 13th and 14th Regiments (added between 1808 and 1810) were assigned lees of wine. During 1810–12 the colours of the original 12 were changed to: 1st–3rd scarlet; 4th–6th golden orange; 7th–9th yellow; and the 10th–12th rose pink. The 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th normally had blue collars.

Because all cuirassiers and carabiniers were considered elite troops, their regiments had no elite companies. Their uniforms, therefore included the usual indications of elite status: scarlet plumes and epaulettes, and the flaming-grenade insignia on their coattails, saddle clothes, and belt buckles.

Dragoons

Dragoons appeared during the 17th Century's wars as a sort of mounted infantry that could be used for all types of odd jobs, including outpost and pioneer work. Their horses being small, cheap nags, they frequently were ridden over when enemy cavalry caught them mounted. Consequently, dragoon officer in all European armies sought to improve their men's swordsmanship and get them better horses. Thus the 20 dragoon regiments in the French Army in 1800 had evolved into another type of cavalryman, with practically no aptitude for dismounted service.

Napoleon gradually increased the number of his dragoon regiments to 30: in 1800 a Piedmontese dragoon regiment was taken in French service as the 21st; during 1803–04, the 22nd–27th (heavy) Cavalry Regiments and three Hussar Regiments were also converted to dragoons. At various times Napoleon formed provisional dragoon regiments, but these were always absorbed into the regular regiments once the need for them had passed. In 1811, with war in Russia apparently inevitable, Napoleon ordered to conversion of the 1st, 3rd, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 29th Dragoons into regiments of 'Chevauléger Lanciers' or Light Horse Lancers.

In part because he could not find horses for all his dragoons, Napoleon had them trained during 1802–05 in dismounted action. Success was limited; when all these "foot dragoons" (two full regiments of which were formed) were mounted on horses captured by the Austrians and Prussians during 1805–06, they proved rather indifferent cavalrymen. Beginning in 1808 Napoleon, therefore, sent 24 regiments of them into Spain where they learned their trade thoroughly; in 1813–14, these "Dragoons of Spain" were the most effective cavalry with Napoleon's armies.

Heavy Cavalry
Unit Information Image Unit History Notable Personality(ies)
Name Uniform
Predecessor Unit/Former Names (from 1789) Formation Date Conversion Date Disbandment Date(s) Successor Unit Notable Battles (bold for those on the reg. colours)
Carabiniers
1st Regiment of Mounted Carabiniers Pre-1810:


Post-1810:

Carabiniers de Monsieur → 1st Regiment of Mounted Carabiniers (1791) → 1st Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers (1796) → 1st Regiment of Mounted Carabiniers (1803) FD: 1 November 1693

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 14 May 1814

SR: 30 August 1815

FR/SR: Carabiniers de Monsieur (2 x regiments)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Regensburg (1809)
  • Battle of Eggmuhl (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
2nd Regiment of Mounted Carabiniers Pre-1810:

Post-1810:

2nd Carabiniers de Monsieur → 2nd Regiment of Mounted Carabiniers (1791) → 2nd Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers (1796) → 2nd Regiment of Mounted Carabiniers (1803) FD: 17 March 1776 (division of Carabiniers)

RF: 1 March 1815

  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Tudela (1808)
  • Battle of Eggmuhl (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Cuirassiers
1st Cuirassier Regiment Colonel–General's Regiment of Cavalry → 1st Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 1st Cavalry-Cuirassiers Regiment (1801) → 1st Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 24 April 1657

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: King's Cuirassier Regiment

SR: Queen's[v] Cuirassier Regiment Nr. 1

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Hollabrün (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Lübeck (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Eckmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Hollabrün (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Siege of Hamburg (1813-14)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Genappe (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Jacques Antoine Deschamps de La Varenne
  • Pierre Margaron
  • Marie Adrien François Guiton
  • Sigismond-Frederick de Berckeim
2nd Cuirassier Regiment Royal Cavalry Regiment → 2nd Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 2nd Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 2nd Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 1635

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: Queen's[v] Cuirassier Regiment

SR: Dauphin's[w] Cavalry Regiment Nr. 3

  • Battle of Wertingen (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Glottau (1807)
  • Battle of Freidland (1807)
  • Battle of Eckmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Edmie-Henn de Beaujeu
  • Jean-Frédéric Yvendorff
  • Louis-Claude Chouard
  • Pierre Rolland
3rd Cuirassier Regiment Commissaire General's Regiment of Cavalry → 3rd Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 3rd Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 3rd Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 25 May 1654

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: Dauphin's[w] Cuirassier Regiment

SR: Duke d'Angoulême's Cuirassier Regiment, later renamed as Duke of Bordeaux's Cuirassier Regiment Nr. 3 (from 1820)

  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Eggmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Siege of Danzig (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Champaubert (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
4th Cuirassier Regiment Queen's Regiment of Cavalry → 4th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 4th Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 4th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 4 July 1643

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: Duke d'Angoulême's Cuirassier Regiment

SR: Duke of Berry's Cuirassier Regiment Nr. 4

  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • First Battle of Polotsk (1812)
  • Second Battle of Polotsk (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Siege of Hamburg (1813-14)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Fulgent Herbault
  • Pierre Roux-Fazillac
  • Jean-Baptiste Antoine Laplanche
  • François-Cajetan-Dominique-Philippe-Andre-Antoine-Vincent-Nicolas-Louis-Gaspard-Melchior-Balthazard, Prince de Aldbrandini-Borghèse
5th Cuirassier Regiment Royal Polish Cuirassier Regiment → 5th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 5th Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 5th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 30 May 1653

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: Duke of Berry's Cuirassier Regiment

SR: Duke of Orléans' Cuirassier Regiment Nr. 5

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Eggmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Hollabrünn (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Armand Louis Gobert
  • Joachim Joseph Levasseur de Neuilly
  • Jean Charles Quinette de Cernay
6th Cuirassier Regiment King's Regiment of Cavalry → 6th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 6th Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 6th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 27 May 1635

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: Colonel-General's Cuirassier Regiment

SR: Prince of Condé's Cuirassier Regiment Nr. 6

  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Joseph Gabriel Duverger
  • Jacques Marie Joseph Conigliano-Carenthal
  • Léonard Cacatte
  • Archange Louis Rioult-Davenay
  • François Charles Jean Pierre Marie d'Avrange d'Haugéranville
7th Cuirassier Regiment Royal Foreign Cavalry Regiment → 7th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 7th Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 7th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 3 February 1657

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: 7th Cuirassier Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • First Siege of Zaragoza (1808)
  • Battle of Barcelona (1808)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • First Battle of Polotsk (1812)
  • Second Battle of Polotsk (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
8th Cuirassier Regiment King's Regiment of Cuirassiers → 8th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 8th Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 8th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 24 January 1638

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: 8th Cuirassier Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • First Battle of Viasma (1812)
  • Second Battle of Viasma (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Siege of Hamburg (1813-14)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Louis Stanislas Françoise Grandjean
  • Louis Jean Claude Clément Lefaivre
9th Cuirassier Regiment Artois Cavalry Regiment → 9th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 9th Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 9th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 7 December 1665

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: 9th Cuirassier Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Dos de May Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Eggmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Regensburg (1809)
  • Battle of Vienna (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
10th Cuirassier Regiment Royal Croatian Cavalry Regiment → 10th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 10th Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 10th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 16 August 1643

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: 10th Cuirassier Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Eggmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Minorca (1810)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
11th Cuirassier Regiment Royal Roussillon Cavalry Regiment → 11th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 11th Cavalry–Cuirassier Regiment (1802) → 11th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 13 October 1652

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: 11th Cuirassier Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Eggmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Regensburg (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Antoine-Constant de Brancas
  • Toussaint-Joseph de Lardemelle
  • Albert Louis Emmanuel de Fouler
  • Pierre Alexis Duclaux
12th Cuirassier Regiment Dauphin's Regiment of Cavalry → 12th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 12th Cavalry–Cuirassiers Regiment (1802) → 12th Cuirassier Regiment (1803) FD: 24 March 1668

RF: 1 March 1815

1803 (to Cuirassiers) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 24 December 1815

FR: 12th Cuirassier Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Eggmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Frankfurt am Main (1813)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Jacques Renard Belfort
  • Joseph Dornes
13th Cuirassier Regiment 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Provisional Regiments of Heavy Cavalry 1807 1808 (to cuirassiers)[x] July 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Tudela (1808)
  • Siege of Zaragoza (1808-09)
  • Battle of Zaragoza (1809)
  • Siege of Lerida (1810)
  • Siege of Tarragone (1811)
  • Siege of Sagonte (1811)
  • Battle of Col d'Ordal (1813)
  • Siege of Lyon (1814)
  • Guillaume François d'Aigremont
14th Cuirassier Regiment 1st Dutch Heavy Cavalry Regiment (1795) → 1st Dutch Light Dragoon Regiment (1803) → 2nd Dutch Dragoon Regiment (1805) → 2nd Dutch Cavalry Regiment (1806) → 2nd Dutch Cuirassier Regiment (1807) (all former units of the Batavian Republic, later Kingdom of Holland) 1 January 1795 15 November 1807 (to cuirassiers in French service) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Second Battle of Polotsk (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Kovno (1812)
  • Battle of Tilsit (1812)
  • Battle of Kovno (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
19th Cavalry Regiment Royal Champagne Cavalry Regiment → 19th Cavalry Regiment (1791) 1 October 1682 1803 disbanded and personnel distributed to 1st Carabiniers and 9th, 10th, and 11th Cuirassiers
20th Cavalry Regiment Royal Picardie Cavalry Regiment → 20th Cavalry Regiment (1791) 16 September 1652 1803 disbanded and personnel distributed to other regiments
21st Cavalry Regiment Royal Navarre Cavalry Regiment → 21st Cavalry Regiment (1791) 6 January 1647 1803 disbanded and personnel distributed to 2nd Carabiniers and 24th, 25th, and 26th Dragoons
22nd Cavalry Regiment Royal Guyenne Cavalry Regiment → 23rd Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 22nd Cavalry Regiment (1792) 29 January 1779 1803 disbanded and personnel distributed to 8th, 9th, 11th, 24th, and 27th Dragoons
23rd Cavalry Regiment Master of Camp's Regiment of Cavalry → 24th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 23rd Cavalry Regiment (1792) 1635 1803 disbanded and personnel distributed to other regiments
Dragoons
1st Dragoon Regiment Royal Dragoon Regiment → 1st Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 14 June 1656

RF: 1 March 1815

18 June 1811 converted to 1st Light Horse–Lancers Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Vimiero (1808)
  • Battle of Talavera (1809)
2nd Dragoon Regiment Condé Dragoon Regiment → 2nd Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 16 May 1635

RF: 1 March 1815

1776 (to Dragoons, from heavy cavalry) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 4 December 1815

FR: 1st King's Dragoon Regiment

SR: 2nd Doubs Dragoon Regiment

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • First Siege of Zaragoza (1808-09)
  • Battle of Tudela (1808)
  • Battle of Talevera (1809)
  • Battle of Cuidad Rodrigo (1810)
  • Siege of Danzig (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
3rd Dragoon Regiment Bourbon Dragoon Regiment → 3rd Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 17 January 1649

RF: 1 March 1815

1776 (to Dragoons, from heavy cavalry) 18 June 1811 converted to 2nd Light Horse–Lancers Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Vimiero (1808)
  • Battle of Cuidad Rodrigo (1810)
  • Paul Alexandre Leblanc-Delisle
  • Edmé Nicolas Fiteau
  • Pierre Marie Auguste Berruyer
  • Denis-Éloi Ludot
4th Dragoon Regiment Conti Dragoon Regiment → 4th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 8 July 1667

RF: 1 March 1815

1776 (to Dragoons, from heavy cavalry) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 4 December 1815

FR: 2nd Queen's[v] Dragoon Regiment

SR: 4th Gironde Dragoon Regiment

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Vimiero (1808)
  • Battle of Talevera (1809)
  • Battle of Medelin (1809)
  • Battle of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)
  • Battle of Laon (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Pierre Watier
  • Auguste Étienne Marie Gourlez de Lamotte
  • Pierre Joseph Farine du Creux
5th Dragoon Regiment Colonel General's Regiment of Dragoons → 5th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 2 April 1668

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 4 December 1815

FR: 3rd Dauphin's[w] Dragoon Regiment

SR: 3rd Garonne Dragoon Regiment

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Medellin (1809)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Bayonne (1813)
  • Battle of Brienne (1814)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Battle of Châlons (1814)
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Wavre (1815)
  • Battle of Versailles (1815)
6th Dragoon Regiment Queen's Regiment of Dragoons → 6th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 14 September 1673

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 4 May 1814

SR: September 1815

FR: 4th Monsieur's Dragoon Regiment

SR: absorbed into 3rd Garonne Dragoon Regiment

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Prenzlau (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Tilsit (1807)
  • First Siege of Zaragoza (1808-09)
  • Battle of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)
  • Battle of Fuentes de Onoro (1811)
  • Battle of Salamanca (1812)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Craonne (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
7th Dragoon Regiment Dauphin's Regiment of Dragoons → 7th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 14 September 1673

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: September 1815

FR: 5th Duke of Angoulême's Dragoon Regiment

SR: absorbed into 7th Manche Dragoon Regiment

  • Calabrian Insurrection (1806-08)
  • Battle of Piave River (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Viasma (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Charles-Philippe Leopold
  • Denis Étienne Seron
  • Louis Charles Barthélémy Sopransi
8th Dragoon Regiment Penthièvre Dragoon Regiment → 8th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 1 March 1674

RF: 1 March 1815

1776 (to Dragoons, from heavy cavalry) 18 June 1811 converted to 3rd Light Horse–Lancers Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Battle of Busacco (1810)
  • Battle of Valladolid (1810)
  • Louis Beckler
  • Jacques Louis François Milet
  • Alexandre Louis Robert Girardin d'Ermenonville
9th Dragoon Regiment Lorraine Dragoon Regiment → 9th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 14 September 1673

RF: 1 March 1815

18 June 1811 converted to 4th Light Horse–Lancers Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Talavera (1809)
10th Dragoon Regiment Mestre-de-Camp's Regiment of Dragoons → 10th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 25 March 1674

RF: 1 March 1815

18 June 1811 converted to 5th Light Horse–Lancers Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Penzlau (1806)
  • Battle of Lübeck (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Fuentes de Orno (1811)
  • Battle of Almeida (1811)
  • Joachim Joseph Levasseur de Neuilly
  • Jean-Louis de La Roque
  • Jacques Marie Cavaignac
  • Jean Baptiste Marie Cavaignac
  • Jean-Baptiste Dommanget
11th Dragoon Regiment Angoulême Dragoon Regiment → 11th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 8 December 1674

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: September 1815

FR: 6th Duke of Berry's Dragoon Regiment

SR: Loire Dragoon Regiment Nr. 6

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Hollabrünn (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Alba-de-Tormes (1809)
  • Battle of Busaco (1810)
  • Battle of Fuentes-de-Orno (1811)
  • Battle of Ciudad Rodrigo (1811)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Strasbourg (1815)
12th Dragoon Regiment Artois Dragoon Regiment → 12th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 5 February 1675

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: September 1815

FR: 7th Duke of Orléans' Dragoon Regiment

SR: absorbed into Dragoons of the Seine Nr. 10

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Prentzlow (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Burgos (1808)
  • Dos de May Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Talevera (1809)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Battle of Malaga (1812)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Siege of Danzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Namur (1815)
13th Dragoon Regiment Monsieur's Dragoon Regiment → 13th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 4 October 1676

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: September 1815

FR: 8th Dragoon Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Hollabrün (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Pułtusk (1806)
  • Battle of Oporto (1809)
  • Siege of Cuidad Rodrigo (1811)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Wavre (1815)
  • Battle of Versailles (1815)
14th Dragoon Regiment Chartres Dragoon Regiment → 14th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 3 March 1672

RF: 1 March 1815

1776 (to Dragoons, from heavy cavalry) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: September 1815

FR: 9th Dragoon Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Dos de May Uprising (1808)
  • Battle of Talavera (1809)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Siege of Cadiz (1810)
  • Battle of Albuhera (1811)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Siege of Danzig (1813)
  • Battle of Fleurus (1815)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
15th Dragoon Regiment Noailles Dragoon Regiment → 15th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 20 December 1688

RF: 1 March 1815

1776 (to Dragoons, from heavy cavalry) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 November 1815

FR: 10th Dragoon Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Lübeck (1806)
  • Battle of Pułtusk (1806)
  • Battle of Ostrolenka (1807)
  • Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)
  • Battle of Busaco (1810)
  • Battle of Fuentes-de-Orno (1811)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Versailles (1815)
  • Nicolas Martin Barthélemy
  • Jean-Claude Boudinhon-Valdec
16th Dragoon Regiment Orléans Dragoon Regiment → 16th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 1 April 1718

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 November 1815

FR: 11th Dragoon Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Pretzlow (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Talevera (1809)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Battle of Malaga (1811)
  • Battle of Zamora (1813)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Sébastien Vial
  • Agathon Pinot du Petit-Bois
  • Antoine Edme Adam de Barbazan
  • François Marie Clément de La Roncière
  • François Grouvel
17th Dragoon Regiment Schomberg Dragoon Regiment → 17th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 20 March 1743

RF: 1 March 1815

1762 (to Dragoons, previously volunteer mixed legion) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 30 August 1815

FR: 12th Dragoon Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Capture of Madrid (1808)
  • Battle of Albuhera (1811)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Troyes (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Namur (1815)
18th Dragoon Regiment King's Regiment of Dragoons →18th Dragoon Regiment (1791) FD: 1 March 1744

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 30 August 1815

FR: 13th Dragoon Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Elchingen (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Lübeck (1806)
  • Battle of Spandau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Somosierra (1808)
  • Capture of Madrid (1808)
  • Battle of Oporto (1809)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
19th Dragoon Regiment 19th Dragoon Regiment (1793) FD: 24 February 1793

RF: 1 March 1815

1793 (to Dragoons, previously volunteer mixed legion) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 30 August 1815

FR: 14th Dragoon Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Elchingen (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Lübeck (1806)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Oporto (1808)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Siege of Danzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
20th Dragoon Regiment 20th Dragoon Regiment (1793) FD: 5 July 1793

RF: 1 March 1815

FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 30 August 1815

FR: 15th Dragoon Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Pułtusk (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Tudela (1808)
  • Battle of Cuidad Real (1809)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Battle of Salamanca (1809)
  • Battle of Albuhera (1811)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
21st Dragoon Regiment 1st Piedmontese Dragoon Regiment → 21st Dragoon Regiment (1801) 21 August 1801[y] 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Almonacid (1809)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Joseph Marie Denayer
  • Jean-Baptiste-Charles-René-Joseph Mas de Polart
22nd Dragoon Regiment Orléans Cavalry Regiment → 13th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 22nd Dragoon Regiment (1803) 16 May 1635 1803 (to dragoons, previously line cavalry) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Oporto (1809)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Antoine Raymond Baillot-Faral
  • Jean Augustin Carrié de Boissy
23rd Dragoon Regiment Royal Piedmont Cavalry Regiment → 14th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 23rd Dragoon Regiment (1803) 8 April 1671 1803 (to dragoons, previously line cavalry) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Verone (1805)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Louis Auguste Alexandre Briant
24th Dragoon Regiment Royal Lorraine Dragoon Regiment → 16th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 15th Cavalry Regiment (1792) → 24th Dragoon Regiment (1803) 9 August 1671 1803 (to dragoons, previously line cavalry) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Caldiero (1805)
  • Battle of Tagliamento (1805)
  • Siege of Rosas (1806)
  • Battle of Villafranca (1810)
  • Battle of Tarragone (1811)
  • Battle of Sagonte (1811)
  • Battle of Castella (1812)
25th Dragoon Regiment Royal Bourgogne Dragoon Regiment → 17th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 16th Cavalry Regiment (1792) → 25th Dragoon Regiment (1803) 7 December 1665 1803 (to dragoons, previously line cavalry) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Elchingen (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Halberstadt (1806)
  • Battle of Ostrolenka (1807)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Alba-de-Tormes (1809)
  • Assault of the Lines of Torres-Vedras (1810)
  • Battle of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)
  • Battle of Fuentes-de-Orno (1811)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Augustin Jean Louis Antoine Marie Sophie Montigny
  • Louis René Le Mouton de Boisdeffre
  • Nicolas Cugnot d'Aubigny
  • Jean-Olivier Gaudin
  • Archange Louis Rioult-Davenay
  • Antoine Rigaud
  • Philip Antoine Ornano
26th Dragoon Regiment Berry Dragoon Regiment → 18th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 17th Cavalry Regiment (1792) → 26th Dragoon Regiment (1803) 8 August 1671 1803 (to dragoons, previously line cavalry) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Wertingen (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Tudela (1808)
  • Battle of Talevera (1809)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Siege of Badajoz (1811)
  • Battle of Camp Major (1811)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Laon (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Joseph François Regis Camille Serre de Gras
  • Vital Joachim Chamorin
  • Gabriel Gaspard Achille Adolphe Bernon de Montélégier
27th Dragoon Regiment Royal Normandy Cavalry Regiment → 19th Cavalry Regiment (1791) → 18th Cavalry Regiment (1792) → 27th Dragoon Regiment (1803) 1 March 1674 1803 (to dragoons, previously line cavalry) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Elchingen (1805)
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Spanden (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Oporto (1809)
  • Battle of Albuhera (1811)
  • Battle of Elvas (1811)
  • Battle of Valencia (1812)
28th Dragoon Regiment 1st Squadron, Liberty Hussars → 7th bis Hussar Regiment (1794) → 28th Dragoon Regiment (1803) 1802 1803 (to dragoons, previously hussars) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Siege of Gaeta (1806)
  • Battle of La Piave (1807)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Pierre Holdrinet
  • François Detrès
  • Aimé Sulpice Victor Pelletier
29th Dragoon Regiment Light Cuirassiers, German Legion → 11th Hussar Regiment (1793) → 29th Dragoon Regiment (1803) 1792 1803 (to dragoons, previously hussars) 18 June 1811 converted to 5th Light Horse–Lancers Regiment
  • Battle of Caliero (1805)
  • Battle of Piave River (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Jacques Philippe Avice
30th Dragoon Regiment Hussars of the Mountain → 12th Hussar Regiment (1794) → 30th Dragoon Regiment (1803) 1793 1803 (to dragoons, previously hussars) 12 May 1814 FR: disbanded
  • Battle of Verone (1805)
  • Battle of Caldiero (1805)
  • Battle of Klagenfurt (1805)
  • Siege of Gaete (1806)
  • Battle of Gratz (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Viasma (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)

Light Cavalry

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Lancers

With one or two minor exceptions such as Marshal Maurice, Comte de Saxe's uhlan regiment of assorted foreigners, France had no lancers until the last years of the eighteen century. These again were foreigners–Polish volunteers, famous throughout Europe for their horsemanship and their skill with the long weapon.

Faced with inevitable war with Russia and its swarms of regular and irregular lancers, in 1811 Napoleon hastily converted one chasseurs à cheval regiment and six dragoon regiments to lancers and added another Polish regiment. Organised in haste, the new "French Lancers", becoming designated as light horse–lancers (chevauléger lanciers) were only partially ready when the Invasion of Russia began in June 1812. But Napoleon had picked their colonels carefully, and the six regiments served creditably enough, though full of raw recruits and remounts and new officers.

Chasseurs à Cheval

The Chasseurs à Cheval, (literally translated as "Chasseurs on Horse", but actually simply light cavalry armed with carbines), were the backbone of the French light cavalry corps. Together with the more ornate hussars, they were used for scouting, raiding, or knee-to-knee massed charges. In 1804, Napoleon had 24 regiments of chasseurs à cheval, numbered "1st" to "26th", the 17th and 18th being vacant however. Thereafter, he formed 5 more, though one of these (the 30th) was quickly converted to lancers.

Except for being green, the original chasseurs à cheval uniforms were much like those of the hussars. Between 1801–06, most regiments were put into the cheaper tailcoat (habit), though some clung to hussar-style dress or retained the caraco. The tailcoat came in two styles: a long-tailed one for full dress, and a short-tailed model (sometimes termed kinski) generally worn on campaign. Both were cut high in front, making the waistcoat necessary except in the warmest weather. The habit-veste, made regulation in 1812 but probably not general adopted until 1813, was short-tailed like the kinski, but cut much lower in the front so that the soldier's stomach was covered.

In actual fact, except for particular directives such as the assignment of facing colours, the chasseurs à cheval had no overall uniform regulations until 1812, leaving their colonels great freedom in clothing their regiments. Uniforms issued in 1813 were quite regulation, being manufactured under central direction, but some regiments still modified them to meet their own preferences. Chasseurs à Cheval regiments were assigned distinctive facing colours in series of threes: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd had bad scarlet; thereafter became bright yellow, rose, crimson, orange, sky blue, aurore, capucine, garance, amaranth, and chamois. Originally the 1st regiment of each series had both collars and cuffs of its distinctive colour: the 2nd, cuffs only; the 3rd, collar only. In 1812, the 3rd regiments were also given cuffs of their colour, but this soon resulted in confusion and many of them resumed their green cuffs. Chasseurs à Cheval officers used the same insignia of grade as the dragoons and infantry, except that many of them wore only their fringed epaulettes, discarding their contre-epaulettes.

Light Cavalry
Unit Information Image Unit History Notable Personality(ies)
Name Uniform
Predecessor Unit/Former Names (from 1789) Formation Date Conversion Date Disbandment Date(s) Successor Unit Notable Battles (bold for those on the reg. colours)
Light Horse Lancers
1st Regiment of Light Horse Lancers 1st Dragoon Regiment → 1st Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) FD: 18 July 1811

RF: 1 March 1815

1811 (to lancers, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 25 December 1815

FR: 1st King's Lancer Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Reims (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Paul Ferdinand Stanislas Dermoncourt
  • Buillaume Félix Dumanoir
  • Jean-Baptiste Jacquinot
2nd Regiment of Light Horse Lancers 3rd Dragoon Regiment → 2nd Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) FD: 18 July 1811

RF: 1 March 1815

1811 (to lancers, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

FR: 2nd Queen's[v] Lancer Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Wilno (1812)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Mainz (1813)
  • Battle of La Rothière (1814)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Pierre Marie Auguste Berruyer
  • Jean Sylvestre Joannès
3rd Regiment of Light Horse Lancers 8th Dragoon Regiment → 3rd Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) FD: 18 July 1811

RF: 1 March 1815

1811 (to lancers, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 14 February 1816

FR: Dauphin's[w] Lancer Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Second Battle of Polotsk (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Champaubert (1814)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Battle of Troyes (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Jean-Baptiste Joseph Sourd
4th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers 9th Dragoon Regiment → 4th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) FD: 18 July 1811

RF: 1 March 1815

1811 (to lancers, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

FR: Monsieur's Légion

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Champaubert (1814)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Battle of Fleurus (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Louis Bro
5th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers 10th Dragoon Regiment → 5th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) FD: 18 July 1811

RF: 1 March 1815

1811 (to lancers, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 21 November 1815

FR: Duke of Angouême's Légion

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Wachau (1813)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Champaubert (1814)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
6th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers 29th Dragoon Regiment → 6th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) FD: 18 July 1811

RF: 1 March 1815

1811 (to lancers, previously dragoons) FD: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

FD: Duke of Berry's Lancer Regiment

SR: disbanded

  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1813)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Viasma (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Champaubert (1814)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Battle of Fleurus (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Laurent François Marie Marboeuf
  • Jacques Philippe Avice
7th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (Polish) 1st Lancer Regiment, Legion of the Vistula → 7th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) 18 July 1811 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Magdeburg (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Ignacy Ferdynand Stokowski
  • Casimir Alexandre Tanski
8th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (Polish) 2nd Lancer Regiment, Legion of the Vistula → 8th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) 18 July 1811 19 January 1814 Incorporated into 7th Lancers (Polish) Battle of Polotsk (1812)

Battle of the Berezina (1812)

Battle of Lützen (1813)

Battle of Bautzen (1813)

Battle of Dresden (1813)

Battle of Leipzig (1813)

Battle of Champaubert (1814)

  • Thomas Lubienski
9th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers Chasseurs à Cheval, Hanoverian Legion → 31st Chasseurs à Cheval (1811) → 9th Regiment of Light Horse Lancers (1811) 9 August 1811 1811 (to lancers, previously chasseurs à cheval) 12 May 1814
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
  • Martin Charles Gobrecht
Chasseurs à Cheval (Light Horse)
1st Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment Boufflers Dragoon Regiment → Alsace Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 1st Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) FD: 24 September 1651

RF: 1 March1815

1788 (to mounted chasseurs, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 14 June 1816

FR: 1st King's Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Auderstadt (1806)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Rocquencourt (1815)
2nd Chasseurs à Cheval Montmorency Dragoon Regiment → Évêchés Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 2nd Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) FD: 14 September 1673

RF: 1 March 1815

1788 (to mounted chasseurs, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 13 November 1815

FR: 2nd Queen's[v][./User:Coldstreamer20/List_of_French_Imperial_Army_units_and_formations#cite_note-Queen-27 [lower-alpha 22]] Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Auerstadt (1806)
  • Battle of Pułtusk (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Landshut (1809)
  • Battle of Eckmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Viasma (1812)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Champaubert (1814)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Battle of Suffel (1815)
3rd Chasseurs à Cheval Deux-Ponts Dragoon Regiment → Flanders Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 3rd Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) FD: 1 January 1675

RF: 1 March 1815

1788 (to mounted chasseurs, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 16 July 1815

FR: 3rd Dauphin's[w] Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Caldiero (1805)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Aspern-Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Champaubert (1814)
  • Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Germain Charpentier
  • Charles-César de Faÿ, Comte de Latour-Maubourg
4th Chasseurs à Cheval Durfort Dragoon Regiment → Franche-Comté Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 4th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) FDD: 11 December 1675

RF: 1 March 1815

1788 (to mounted chasseurs, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 25 December 1815

FR: 4th Monsieur's Dragoon Regiment
  • Siege of Venice (1805)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Wachau (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Claude Denis Noël Bruguière
  • Nicolas-Joseph Scalfort
  • Urbain François Lambert
  • Louis Jacques François Boulnois
5th Chasseurs à Cheval Segur Dragoon Regiment → Hainaut Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 5th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) FD: 13 March 1676

RF: 1 March 1815

1788 (to mounted chasseurs, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 25 December 1815

FR: 5th Duke of Angoulême's Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1815)
  • Battle of Jena
  • Battle of Eylau
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Talavera (1809)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Toulouse (1814)
6th Chasseurs à Cheval Languedoc Dragoon Regiment → Languedoc Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 6th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) FD: 4 October 1676


RF: 1 March 1815

1788 (to mounted chasseurs, previously dragoons) FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 25 December 1815

FR: 6th Duke of Berry's Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Calabrian Campaign (1804–1808)
  • Battle of Piave River (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Guillaume Joséph Eulner
  • Boniface Louis Andrew Castellane-Novejean
  • Charles August Philippe Lefort
  • Jean Joseph Agne d'Hautpoul
7th Chasseurs à Cheval Royal Légion → 1st Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment of the Alps (1784) → Picardie Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 7th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) IF: 20 January 1747



FD: 29 January 1779


RF: 1 March 1815

Disbanded: 25 March 1776



FR: 12 May 1814

SR: 25 December 1815

FR: 7th Duke of Orléans's Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Regensbeurg (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Hollabrünn (1809)
  • First Battle of Polotsk (1812)
  • Second Battle of Polotsk (1812)
  • Siege of Danzig (1813)
  • Battle of Dresden (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Strasbourg (1815)
  • François Joséph Bohn
  • Armand Desire de Richelieu d'Aiguillon
  • François Charles Scheglinski
  • Adelaide Blaise François Le Lievre La Grange et de Fourilles
  • Hippolyte Marie Guillaume de Rosnyvinen Piré
  • Alexandre Montbrun
  • Antoine Charles Bernard Delaitre
8th Chasseurs à Cheval Flanders Légion → 2nd Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment of the Pyrenees (1784) → Guyenne Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 8th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) IF: 1 August 1749



FD: 29 January 1779


RF: 1 March 1815

Disbanded: 25 March 1776


FR: 12 May 1814


SR: November 1815

FR: 8th Bourbon Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of the Piave River (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Viasma (1812)
  • Battle of Vilna (1812)
  • Battle of Lützen (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Siege of Tolouse (1814)
  • Battle of Wavre (1815)
  • Battle of Versailles (1815)
9th Chasseurs à Cheval Lorraine Légion → 3rd Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment → Lorraine Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 9th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) IF: 1 April 1757



FD: 29 January 1779


RF: 1 March 1815

Disbanded: 25 March 1776


FR: 12 May 1814


SR: 25 December 1815

FR: 9th Colonel-General's Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Maida (1806)
  • Battle of the Piave River (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Hollabrünn (1809)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Moscow (1812)
  • Battle of Viasma (1812)
  • Battle of Smolensk (1812)
  • Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
  • Siege of Vilna (1812–13)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Battle of Versailles (1815)
10th Chasseurs à Cheval Condé Légion → 4th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment of the Cévennes (1784) → Brittany Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 10th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) IF: 1 April 1757



FD: 29 January 1779


RF: 1 March 1815

Disbanded: 25 March 1776


FR: 12 May 1814


SR: 1 December 1815

FR: 10th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Elchingen (1805)
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Siege of Burgos (1808)
  • Battle of Talavera (1809)
  • Battle of Ocaña (1809)
  • Battle of Paris (1814)
  • Siege of Tolouse (1814)
  • Siege of Magdeburg (1814)
  • Achille François Chastellet
  • Henri François Elbee de la Sabloniere
  • Pierre Clermont Champeaux
  • Pierre Jean Baptiste Leclerc d'Ostein
  • Michel Ordener
  • Auguste François Marie Colbert
  • Jacques-Gervais Subervie
11th Chasseurs à Cheval Soubise Légion (1766) → 5th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment of the Gévaudan (1779) → Normandy Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 11th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) IF: 11 January 1762


FD: 29 January 1779


RF: 1 March 1815

Disbanded: 25 March 1776


FR: 12 May 1814


SR: 6 December 1815

FR: 11th Isère Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Jena (1806)
  • Battle of Lübeck (1806)
  • Battle of Allenstein (1807)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Heilsberg
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Tudela (1808)
  • Battle of Eggmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Hollabrünn (1809)
  • Battle of Vitebsk (1812)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
  • Jean Baptiste Nicolas Jacquinot
  • Joseph Theodore Gabriel Lallemand de Waites
  • Jean Henri Guy Nicolas Grandval Fregeville
  • Anne François Charles Treillard
  • Bertrand Bessières
12th Chasseurs à Cheval Dauphin's Légion (1775) → 6th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment of the Ardennes (1779) → Champagne Chasseurs Regiment (1788) → 12th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1791) IF: 1769


FD: 29 January 1779


RF: 1 March 1815

Disbanded: 25 March 1776


FR: 12 May 1814


SR: 6 December 1815

FR: 12th Marne Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Auerstädt (1806)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Hollabrünn (1809)
  • Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (1810)
  • Battle of Borodino (1812)
  • Battle of the Berezina (1812)
  • Battle of Bautzen (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Ligny (1815)
  • Battle of Waterloo (1815)
13th Chasseurs à Cheval Free Légion of the Americas (1792) → 13th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1793) FD: 5 March 1793


RF: 1 March 1815

Formed through merger of the existing Free Légion of the Americas (direct predecessor) and absorbing the Hussards of the South. FR: 12 May 1814


SR: 6 December 1815

FR: 13th Meuse Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Ulm (1805)
  • Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
  • Battle of Eylau (1807)
  • Battle of Friedland (1807)
  • Battle of Bailén (1808)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (1810)
  • Battle of Salamanca (1812)
  • Battle of Bayonne (1813)
  • Battle of Toulouse (1814)
  • Battle of Belfort (1815)
  • Jean Baptiste Demengeot
14th Chasseurs à Cheval 14th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1793) FD: 5 March 1793 Formed through merger of three National Volunteer units: Egalité Hussars, Death Hussars, and The Alps Légion. FR: 12 May 1814


SR: 6 December 1815

FR:14th Morbihan Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
  • Battle of Caldiero (1805)
  • Battle of Venice (1805)
  • Calabrian Campaign (1806)
  • Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
  • Battle Eggmühl (1809)
  • Battle of Essling (1809)
  • Battle of Wagram (1809)
  • Battle of Hollabrünn (1809)
  • Battle of Salamanca (1812)
  • Battle of Vitoria (1813)
  • Battle of Leipzig (1813)
  • Battle of Hanau (1813)
15th Chasseurs à Cheval 15th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (1793)
16th Chasseurs à Cheval
17th Chasseurs à Cheval
18th Chasseurs à Cheval
19th Chasseurs à Cheval
20th Chasseurs à Cheval
21st Chasseurs à Cheval
22nd Chasseurs à Cheval
23rd Chasseurs à Cheval
24th Chasseurs à Cheval
25th Chasseurs à Cheval
26th Chasseurs à Cheval
27th Chasseurs à Cheval
28th Chasseurs à Cheval
29th Chasseurs à Cheval
30th Chasseurs à Cheval
31st Chasseurs à Cheval

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Light Infantry

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Foreign Troops

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Artillery

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Horse Artillery

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Artillery Support

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Support

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Field Engineers

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Footnotes

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Notes

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  1. ^ Raised at the strength of two light cavalry squadrons, forming the cavalry element of the Consular Guard. Two more squadrons raised and regiment subsequently reorganised as heavy cavalry, becoming the Mounted Grenadiers.
  2. ^ Raised at the strength of two light cavalry squadrons, forming the cavalry element of the Consular Guard. Two more squadrons raised and regiment subsequently reorganised as heavy cavalry, becoming the Mounted Grenadiers.
  3. ^ Following the regiment's 'outstanding' service at the Battle of Somosierra in 1809, the regiment was incorporated into the Old Guard. Before this time, the regiment was simply part of the Imperial Guard, but didn't belong to any specific corps.
  4. ^ The Light Cavalry–Lancers Regiment of the Old Guard was more or less an adhoc hastily formed unit. The old 2nd Dutch Lancers were grouped with the Polish (Elba) Squadron, which was itself formed from the old 1st Polish Lancers, to form this regiment.
  5. ^ The Polish Lancers as a regiment were disbanded on 12 May 1814, however the senior squadron (approx. 100 men) joined Napoleon on Elba. This squadron then returned in April 1815 and formed part of the Lancer Regiment (of the Imperial Guard), however both were disbanded in 1815.
  6. ^ The Light Cavalry–Lancers Regiment of the Old Guard was more or less an adhoc hastily formed unit. The old 2nd Dutch Lancers were grouped with the Polish (Elba) Squadron, which was itself formed from the old 1st Polish Lancers, to form this regiment.
  7. ^ a b The majority of the forces of the old Kingdom of Holland (annex by France in September 1810) were transferred into the French Army at that point. Their successors are therefore Dutch.
  8. ^ The Light Cavalry–Lancers Regiment of the Old Guard was more or less an adhoc hastily formed unit. The old 2nd Dutch Lancers were grouped with the Polish (Elba) Squadron, which was itself formed from the old 1st Polish Lancers, to form this regiment.
  9. ^ The Light Cavalry–Lancers Regiment of the Old Guard was more or less an adhoc hastily formed unit. The old 2nd Dutch Lancers were grouped with the Polish (Elba) Squadron, which was itself formed from the old 1st Polish Lancers, to form this regiment.
  10. ^ a b c d e In 1813, the regiment was split in two, forming an "Old Guard" and "Young Guard" regiments, the "regiment" itself continued now as a corps, but was no longer a regiment.
  11. ^ After the first restoration, the majority of the Mamelukes joined Napoleon on Elba. They then returned in March 1815, and formed a two troops (one Old Guard (mamelukes) and one Young Guard (French)), both were disbanded after the Second Restoration.
  12. ^ Though the Gendarmerie are technically support troops, and not cavalry, there were grouped with the cavalry on operations and in battle, and therefore constituted part of the 'Cavalry Corps'.
  13. ^ The Elite gendarmes were formed in July 1801 at the size of 'one company' for duties in the Paris area. In 1804 the company was taken under the control of the Old Guard, renamed as the Elite Gendarmes Legion and expanded into four mounted companies and two foot companies. By 1809, there were four foot companies and were disbanded in that year.
  14. ^ Following Napoleon's Abdication in April 1814, the last two battalions of the regiment were dispersed. The 1st battalion (mostly Dutch) went into service of the new United Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the 2nd battalion (mostly Italians) went into service with the Kingdom of Naples.
  15. ^ The term 'Light Infantry' is used here to describe the following: Chasseurs, Tirailleurs, Voltigeurs, and Flankers.
  16. ^ a b During the Hundred Days, the 7th Foot Artillery Regiment was due to convert to the new Young Guard Foot Artillery. In turn, the 3rd Horse Artillery Regiment was also due to convert to the new Young Guard Horse Artillery.
  17. ^ Expanded from battalion of six companies to two battalions in 1808 (total of 12 companies and 2 dépôt companies). That same year, the train was split, with the 1st Battalion becoming part of the Old Guard, while the duplicate, 1st bis Battalion became part of the Young Guard. In 1813, the artillery train was completely reorganised with the 1st Artillery Train Regiment now organised into three battalions (four companies and one dépôt company each). The old Young Guard companies were separated into the new 2nd Artillery Train Regiment of the Young Guard with the same organisation.
  18. ^ Reformed during Napoleon's return as the direct successor to the old 1st Imperial Guard Artillery Train Regiment (Old Guard).
  19. ^ Because of the speed which the Hundred Days campaign was fought, the 6th Artillery Train Squadron was tasked with supporting the Young Guard. This squadron was earmarked to become the Artillery Train Squadron of the Young Guard, thereby reforming the Young Guard Artillery Train.
  20. ^ The 'Corps of Engineers' separated from the artillery in 1758. In 1793 they were transferred to the Army Staff to become an independent combat arm. The miners were also then transferred from the artillery to the engineers.
  21. ^ Having its own caisson for tools and equipment and eight horse-drawn pumps, the Sappers required 10 conducteurs (drivers) initially.
  22. ^ a b c d e Much like the title of 'Dauphin of France', this title remained in potentia, as Louis XVIII's wife, Marie Joséphine of Savoy (Comtess de Provence died in 1810. The use of the title 'Queen' in regiments' names was thereby used in honour of her.
  23. ^ a b c d e Note: Following the Bourbon Restoration, some units took the name of 'Dauphin's' (du Dauphin), however the title of Dauphin of France remained in potentia, as Louis XVIII bared no children.
  24. ^ Elements provided by the following other regiments: 1st & 2nd Carabiniers and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Cuirassiers
  25. ^ A 21st Regiment of Dragons had been raised in 1793 by merging the Dragoons of the Manche and cavalry of the Police Legion. However, because of a mutiny while in Italy, this regiment was disbanded in 1798.

Citations

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  1. ^ [https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/frenchguard/c_guardpupilles.html "The Garde Imperiale and Its Commanders during the Period 1804 � 1815"]. www.napoleon-series.org. Retrieved 2021-11-26. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 63 (help)
  2. ^ "1789-1815 Garde des Consuls". www.1789-1815.com. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  3. ^ [https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/frenchguard/c_guardarty.html "The Garde Imperiale and Its Commanders during the Period 1804 � 1815"]. www.napoleon-series.org. Retrieved 2021-11-26. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 63 (help)
  4. ^ [https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/frenchguard/c_guardgenies.html "The Garde Imperiale and Its Commanders during the Period 1804 � 1815"]. www.napoleon-series.org. Retrieved 2021-11-26. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 63 (help)
  5. ^ [https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/frenchguard/c_guardmarins.html "The Garde Imperiale and Its Commanders during the Period 1804 � 1815"]. www.napoleon-series.org. Retrieved 2021-11-26. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 63 (help)

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