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French Carabiniers and the Colonels Who Led Them
1792-1815.
By Tony
Broughton, FINS
Created in 1693 as the Royal Carabiniers, renamed the
Carabiniers de M. le Comte de Provence in 1758. In 1774,
they became the Carabiniers de Monsieur; 1791 saw the
regiments become the 1er and 2e Regiment de Carabinier
Grenadiers des Troupes-a-Cheval until finally becoming the
1er and 2e Regiment de Carabiniers.
1er Regiment de Carabiniers.
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Carabinier
pre-1810
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Colonels and Chef de Brigade
1791: De Valence
(Jean-Baptiste-Cyrus-Marie-Adelaide de Thimbrune) -
Colonel
1791: De Meillonas (Antoine-Bernard-Constance-Marron)
- Colonel
1792: De Berruyer (Jean-Francois) - Colonel
1792: Antoine (Louis-Francois) - Colonel
1792: Baget (Jean) - Chef de Brigade.
1793: Jaucourt-Latour (Jacques-Louis) -
Chef-de-Brigade
1795: Girard (Jean-Pierre) - Chef-de-Brigade
1799: Cochois (Antoine-Christophe) -
Chef-de-Brigade
1805: Prince Borghese (Camille) - Colonel
1807: Laroche (Francois) - Colonel
1813: De Bailliencourt (Francois-Charles-Joseph) -
Colonel
1815: Roge (Arnaud) - Colonel
Of the eleven Colonels and Chefs-de-Brigade, seven
attained the rank of General-de- Brigade and above.
De Berruyer, (Jean-Francois)
Born: 6 January 1738
Colonel: 5 February 1792
General-de-Brigade: 13 May 1792
Member of the Legiond'Honneur: 11 November 1803
Died: 17 April 1804
Antoine, (Louis-Francois)
Born: 7 May 1744
Colonel: 16 May 1792
General-de-Brigade: 8 March 1793
Died: 13 April 1837
Baget, (Jean)
Born: 18 October 1743
Colonel: 30 September 1792
General-de-Brigade: 30 June 1793
Died: 17 February 1821
Jaucourt-Latour, (Jacques-Louis)
Born: 17 March 1736
Chef-de-Brigade: 5 March 1794
General-de-Brigade: 13 June 1795
Died: 8 October 1807
Cochois, (Antoine-Christophe)
Born: 19 December 1755
Chef-de-Brigade: 4 October 1799
Colonel: 1803.
General-de-Brigade: 24 December 1805
Sabre d'Honneur: 20 December 1802
Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur: 4 December 1803
Officer of the Legion d'Honneur: 14 June 1804
Baron of the Empire: 11 July 1810
Died: 5 January 1830
Prince Borghese, (Camille)
Born: 19 July 1775
Colonel: 27 December 1805
General-de-Brigade: 14 May 1807
General de Division: 23 January 1808
Grand Eagle of the Legion d'Honneur: 10 February
1805
Died: 10 April 1832
Laroche, (Francois)
Born: 5 January 1775
Colonel: 14 May 1807
General-de-Brigade: 28 September 1813
Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur: 18 December
1803
Officer of the Legion d'Honneur: 14 March 1806
Died: 22 February 1823
Colonels killed and wounded while in command of the
1er Regiment de Carabiniers.
Colonel Cochois: Wounded 20 October 1805
Colonel Laroche: Wounded 23 April 1809
Colonel Bailliencourt: Wounded 3 February 1814
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the 1er
Carabiniers during the period 1805-1815.
Officers killed: Twenty-two
Officers died of wounds: Five
Officers wounded: Eighty-one
As the 1er and 2e Carabiniers were always brigaded
together and their war record is the same and will be
detailed later.
2e Regiment de Carabiniers.
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Carabinier
1810
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Colonels and Chefs-de-Brigade.
1792: De Foucauld-la Besse (Louis) - Colonel
1792: De Raincourt (Charles-Ignace) - Colonel
1792: De Beaufranchet d'Ayat (Louis-Charles-Antoine) -
Colonel
1792: D'Anglars (Jean de Bassignac) - Colonel
1799: De Caulaincourt (Armand-Louis) -
Chef-de-Brigade.
1803: Morin (Pierre-Nicolas) - Colonel
1807: Blanchard (Amable-Guy) - Colonel
1813: De Seve (Marie-Louis-Joseph) - Colonel
1815: Beugnat (Francois) - Colonel
Four of the above officers attained the rank of
General-de-Brigade and above.
De Beaufranchet d'Ayat, (Louis-Charles-Antoine)
Born: 22 November 1757
Colonel: 4 April 1792
General-de-Brigade: 1 September 1792
Died: 2 July 1812
De Caulaincourt, (Armand-Augustine-Louis)
Born: 9 December 1773
Chef-de-Brigade: 30 July 1799
General-de-Brigade: 29 August 1803
General de Division: 1 February 1805
Commander of the Legion d'Honneur: 14 June 1804
Grand Eagle of the Legion d'Honneur: 2 February
1805
Grand Marechal du Palais: 25 May 1813
Died: 19 February 1827
Morin, (Pierre-Nicolas)
Born: 22 September 1756
Colonel: 31 August 1803
General-de-Brigade: 25 January 1807
Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur: 11 November
1803
Officer of the Legion d'Honneur: 24 April 1804
Commander of the Legion d'Honneur: 25 December
1805
Baron of the Empire: 12 February 1812
Died: 20 November 1827
Blanchard, (Amable-Guy)
Born: 19 August 1774
Colonel: 25 January 1807
General-de-Brigade: 28 September 1813
Sabre d'Honneur: 25 December 1802
Officer of the Legion d'Honneur: 14 June 1804
Baron of the Empire: 17 May 1810
Died: 4 April 1853
Colonels killed and wounded while commanding the 2e
Regiment de Carabiniers.
Chef-de-Brigade: De Caulaincourt: Wounded 2
November 1799
Colonel Blancard: Wounded 18 October 1812
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the 2e
Carbiniers during the period 1805-1815.
Officers killed: Twelve
Officers died of wounds: Four
Officers wounded: Sixty-five
Regimental war record (Battles and Combats)
1792: Valmy
1793: Arlon, Bliecastel, Climbach, and Wissembourg
1794: Tourcoing and Tournay
1795: Frankenthal, Mannheim, and Biberach
1800: Engen, Moeskirch, Augsbourg, Blenheim, Passage
of the Danube, Hochstett, Neresheim, and Hohenlinden
1805: Nurembourg and Austerlitz
1806: Prentzlow and Lubeck
1807: Ostrolenka, Guttstadt, and Friedland
1809: Eckmuhl, Ratisbonne, Essling, and Wagram
1812: La Moskowa, Winkowo, and Wiasma
1813: Dresden, Leipzig, and Hanau
1814: Montmirail, La Guillotiere, Troyes, Craonne,
Laon, and Reims
1815: Quatre-Bras and Waterloo
Battle Honours.
There are no Battle Honours given in the
Regimental History of the Carabinier Regiments.
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1894.
Bukhari, Emir. Napoleon's Cavalry London
: Osprey; 1979.
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Martinien A. Tableaux par Corps et par Batailles des
Officiers Tues et Blesse pendant les Guerres de l'Empire
1805-1815 Paris; 1899.
Six, Georges. Dictionnaire Biographique des Generaux
et Amiraux Français de la Revolution et de l'Empire
1792-1814 Paris; 1934.
Placed on the Napoleon Series: July 2000
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