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Regiment de Grenadiers-a-Cheval 1er Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval 2e Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval Regiment de Dragons de l’Imperatice 1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers 2e Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers 3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers |
The Garde Imperiale and Its Commanders during the Period 1804 – 1815Part I: The Cavalry RegimentsBy Tony Broughton, FINS As a large number of officers serving with the Garde Imperiale held the rank of General-de-Brigade and above, I have included officers with the rank of Colonel, Colonel-en- second, Colonel-Major and Major in this series of articles. For information on the early history of the Grenadiers-a-Cheval and Chasseurs-a-Cheval this information can be found in my previous article on the Garde Imperiale. Regiment de Grenadiers-a-Cheval de la Garde ImperialeRegimental History
Colonels
Colonel-Majors and Majors
Nine of the above officers attained the rank of General-de-Brigade
and above
Senior officers who served with the Grenadiers-a-Cheval de la Garde killed and wounded while in the service of France during the years 1791-1815
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the Grenadiers-a-Cheval de la Garde during the period 1804 - 1815
Regimental History (battles and combats where officers and men were killed and wounded)
Battle Honours (1813-1814 Drapeaux)
1er Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval de la Garde ImperialeRegimental History
Colonels
Colonel-en-Second, Colonel-Majors, and Majors
Eleven of the above Officers attained the rank of General-de-Brigade and above
Senior officers who served with the Chasseurs-a-Cheval de la Garde
killed and wounded while in the service of France during the years 1791-1815
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the Chasseurs-a-Cheval de la Garde Imperiale during the period 1804 - 1815
Regimental History (battles and combats where officers and men were
killed and wounded)
Battle Honours (1813-1814 Drapeaux)
It should be noted at a Squadron of Mamalukes was attached to the 1er Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval de la Garde Imperiale, below is listed its commanders who each held the rank of Chef d’Escadron. Also included is its history and war record and casualties. Escadron de MamalukesSquadron History
Chefs d’Escadron
Four of the above officers attained the rank of General-de-Brigade and above
Senior officers who served with the Escadron de Mamalukes killed and wounded while in the service of France during the years 1791-1815
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the Escadron de Mameluks
during the period 1804 - 1815
Regimental History (battles and combats where officers and men were
killed and wounded)
2e Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval de la Garde Imperiale
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Arrighi de Casanova, (Jean-Toussaint)
Born: 8 March 1778
Chef-de-Brigade: 31st August 1803 (1er Regiment de Dragons)
Major-Colonel: 19 May 1806 (Dragons de la Garde Imperiale)
Colonel: 25 June 1807 (Dragons de la Garde Imperiale)
General-de-Brigade: 25 June 1807
General-de-Division: 25 May 1809
Commander of the Legion d'Honneur: 25 December 1804
Created Duc de Padoue: 20 March 1808
Died: 22nd March 1853
Saint-Sulpice, (Raymond-Gaspard Bonardy de)
Born: 23rd October 1761
Colonel: 26 October 1792 (12e Regiment de Dragons)
Chef-de-Brigade: 30 March 1797 (5e Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval)
Chef-de-Brigade: 5 May 1799 (19e Regiment de Cavalerie)
Colonel: 12 July 1809 (Dragons de la Garde)
General-de-Brigade: 24 March 1803
General-de-Division: 14 February 1807
Count of the Empire: 6 June 1808
Died: 20 June 1835
Born: 17 January 1784
Colonel: 18 January 1807 (25e Regiment de Dragons)
Colonel: 21 January 1813 (Dragons de la Garde)
Colonel: 19 November 1814 (Corps Royal des Dragons de France)
Colonel: 14 April 1815 (Dragons de la Garde)
General-de-Brigade: 16 June 1811
General-de-Division: 8 September 1812
Count of the Empire: 22nd November 1808
Died: 13 October 1863
Born: 9 August 1772
Chef-de-Brigade: 23rd September 1800 and Colonel in 1803 (3e Regiment de Dragons)
Colonel-Major: 13 September 1806 (Dragons de la Garde)
General-de-Brigade: 25 May 1809
Commander of the Legion d'Honneur: 25 December 1805
Died: Commited suicide 14 December 1810
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General Louis Letort |
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Born: 28 August 1773
Major: 8 Octobre 1806
General-de-Brigade: 30 January 1813
General-de-Division: 13 February 1814
Baron of the Empire: 9 September 1810
Count of the Empire: 1814
Died: 15 June 1815 (killed while pursuing the Prussian rearguard)
Born: 7 November 1771
Major: 5 June 1809
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 16 November 1808
Baron of the Empire: 15 March 1810
Died: 6 October 1812 (while in captivity)
Pinteville, (Pierre-Alexis de)
Born: 31 January 1771
Colonel: 20 August 1810 (30e Regiment de Dragons)
Major: 3 February 1813 (Dragons de la Garde)
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 1 July 1812
Baron of the Empire: 16 August 1813
Died: 27 August 18150
Born: 15 August 1771
Colonel: 27 December 1805 (2e Regiment de Cuirassiers)
Major: 6 October 1813 (Dragons de la Garde)
General-de-Brigade: 6 August 1811
Commander of the Legion d'Honneur: 23rd August 1814
Baron of the Empire: 27 November 1808
Died: 15 May 1843
Born: 15 July 1768
Colonel: 29 March 1813 (2e Regiment de Dragons)
Major: 17 December 1813 (2e Regiment d’Eclaireurs)
Major: 14 April 1815 (Dragons de la Garde)
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 14 July 1813
Baron of the Empire: 4 December 1813
Died: 9 August 1842
Senior officers who served with the Dragons de la Garde Imperiale killed and wounded while in the service of France during the years 1791-1815
Arrighi – wounded 12 August 1798, 10 May 1799, 8 October 1805, and 30 March 1814
Saint-Sulpice – wounded 8 February 1807
Ornano – wounded 18 November 1812
Fiteau – wounded 21 March 1801 and 5 February 1807
Letort – wounded 18 March 1793, 26 December 1793, 30 March 1799, 14 October 1806, and 30 October 1813
Marthod - wounded 25 September 1812 and died of wounds 5 October 1812
Pinteville – wounded 7 September 1812 and 17 September 1813
Chouard - wounded 22 July 1793, 2 December 1805, and 7 September 1812
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the Dragons de la
Garde Imperiale during the period 1806 - 1815
Officers Killed: Eight
Officers died of wounds: Seven
Officers wounded: Eighty
Regimental History (battles and combats where officers and men were
killedand wounded)
1806: Jena
1807: Friedland
1808: Medina-del-Rio-Seca
1812: Moskowa, Malajaroslawetz, Krasnoe, and Beresina
1813: Dresde, Toeplitz, Leipzig, Hanau, and Liege
1814: Langres, Bar-sur-Aube, Montmirail, Chateau-Thierry, Champaubert, Riems, Craonne, Laon, and Arcis-sur-Aube
1815: Ligny and Waterloo
Battle Honours (1813-1814 Drapeaux)
Friedland, Eckmuhl, Essling, Vienne, Wagram, Madrid, Smolensk, La Moskowa, and Moscou
1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers de la Grade
Imperiale
Regimental History
1807: Created Regiment de Chevau-Legers Polonaise de la Garde
1809: Renamed, Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde
1811: Renamed,1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers de la Garde Imperiale
1814: Disbanded, one squadron accompanying Napoleon on Elba
1815: Single squadron combined with 2e Regiment de Chevau-Leger Lanciers to form Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde Imperiale under the command of General-de-Division Colbert
Colonels
1807: Krasinski (Vincent Corvin)
Colonel-Majors and Majors
1807: Delaitre (Antoine-Charles-Bernard) - Major
1807: Autancourt (Pierre d’) - Major
1812: Konopka (Jean) - Colonel-Major
1812: Radziwill (Dominique-Hieronime) - Major
1812: Kozietulski (Jean-Leon-Hippolyte) - Major
1813: Jerzmanowski (Jean-Paul) - Major
Major: 14 April 1815 (Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde Imperiale)
Four of the above officers attained the rank of General-de-Brigade
and above
General Vincent Krasinski
Born: 30 January 1782
Colonel: 17 April 1807
General-de-Brigade: 16 December 1811
General-de-Division: 28 November 1813
Commander of the Legion d’Honneur: 20 June 1811
Count of the Empire: 3 June 1811
Died: 24 November 1856Delaitre, (Antoine-Charles-Bernard)
Born: 13 January 1776
Major: 7 April 1807 ( 1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers Polonaise de la Garde)
Colonel: 27 January 1811 (7e Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval)
General-de-Brigade: 26 April 1812
Baron of the Empire: 29 June 1809
Died: 2nd July 1838Born: 28 February 1778
Major en second: 6 April 1807 (1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers Polonaise de la Garde)
Major: 28 November 1813 (1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde)
General-de-Brigade: 28 November 1813
Commander of the Legion d’Honneur: 27 February 1814
Baron of the Empire: 26 April 1810
Died: 2 January 1810Born: 27 December 1777
Colonel: 15 July 1807 (1er Regiment de Lanciers Polonaise)
Colonel-Major: 27 January 1812 (1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde)
Colonel: 5 July 1812 (3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers)
General-de-Brigade: 6 August 1811
Commander of the Legion d’Honneur: 11 December 1808
Died: ?Radziwill, (Dominique-Hieronime)
Born: 4 August 1786
Colonel: 1 April 1811 (8e Regiment de Lanciers Polonaise)
Major: 27 October 1812 (1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde)
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 14 May 1813
Died: 11 November 1813Kozietulski, (Jean-Leon-Hippolyte)
Born: 4 June 1781
Major: 30 May 1813
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 13 December 1809
Baron of the Empire: 15 March 1810
Died: 3 February 1821
General Jean Jerzmanowski
Born: 25 June 1779
Major: 15 March 1814
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 14 April 1813
Baron of the Empire: 16 August 1813
Died: ?
Senior officers who served with the 1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers
Lanciers de la Garde killed and wounded while in the service of France
during the years 1791-1815
Krasinski – wounded 2 May 1808, 6 July 1809, 7 September 1812, 21 October 1813 and 13 March 1814
Delaitre - wounded 1798 and 27 November 1812
Autancourt – recieved no wounds
Konopka – wouned 4 August 1808
Radziwill – wounded 27 July 1812, 30 October 1813 and died of wounds 11 November 1813
Kozietulski – wounded 30 November 1806, 6 July 1809 and 25 October 1812
Jerzmanowski – wounded 6 July 1809 and 18 June 1815
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the 1er Regiment
de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde during the period 1807 – 1815
Killed: Eleven
Died of wounds: Six
Wounded: Fifty-three
Regimental History (battles and combats where officers and men were
killed and wounded)
1808: Madrid, Media-del-Rio-Seco, and Somo-Sierra
1809: Valladolid, Essling, and Wagram
1810: Santa-Cruz and Cerignano
1812: Woronowo and Kalouga
1813: Dresde, Peterswald, Leipzig, and Hanau
1814: Craonne
1815: Waterloo (there was only one squadron attached to the 2e Regiment de Chevau Legers Lanciers de la Garde Imperial to form thr Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde Imperiale under the command of General de Division Colbert)
Battle Honours (1813-1814 Drapeaux)
Essling, Wagram, Smolensk, La Moskowa, Madrid, and Moscou
2e Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers de la Garde Imperiale
Regimental History
1810: Created, 2eRegiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde (formed from)
Regiment de Hussards de la Garde a Cheval du Roi (Dutch Regiment)
3eRegiment de Hussards Hollandaise
Garde du Corps Hollandaise1814: Corps Royal des Chevau-Legers Lanciers de France
1815: Reformed with single squadron of the 1er Regiment de Chevau-Leger Lanciers de la Garde to form Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde Imperiale
Colonels
1811: Colbert (Pierre-David dit Edouard)
Colonel-Majors and Majors
1810: Hasselt ( Jean-Henri-Cornelis van) - Major
1810: Du Bois (Charles-Marie-Joseph) - Major
1813: Gauthier (Jean-Pierre) - Major
1813: Lalaing d’Audenarde (Charles-Louis) - Major
1815: Du Bois (Charles-Marie-Joseph) - Major
Four of the above officers attained the rank of General-de-Brigade
and above
General Pierre Colbert
Colbert, (Pierre-David dit Edouard)
Born: 8 October1774
Colonel: 30 December 1806 (7e Regiment de Hussards)
Colonel: 6 March 1811 (2e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde)
General-de-Brigade: 9 March 1809
General-de-Division: 25 December 1813
Member of the Legion d'Honneur: 1806
Officer of the Legion d'Honneur: 1807
Commandant of the Legion d'Honneur: 17 July 1809
Baron of the Empire: 28 May 1809
Died: 28 December 1853Hasselt, ( Jean-Henri-Cornelis van)
Born: 27 March 1776
Major: 30 October 1810
Died: 30 December 1812
Gauthier (Jean-Pierre)
Born: 23 February 1765
Colonel: 15 March 1810 (9e Regiment provisoire de Dragons)
Colonel: 23 August 1811 (25eRegiment de Dragons)
Major: 12 January 1813 (2e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde)
General-de-Brigade: 26 December 1813
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 14 June 1804
Baron of the Empire: 25 March 1810
Died: 14 June 1821Du Bois, (Charles-Marie-Joseph)
Born: 22 October 1772
Colonel: 9 August 1809 (Regiment de Hussards de la Garde Royale Hollandaise)
Major: 30 October 1810 (2e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde)
Major: 8 August 1814 (Corps Royal des Chevau-Legers Lanciers de France)
Major: 14 April 1815 (Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde Imperiale)
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur : 24 October 1814
Baron of the Empire: 26 November 1813
Died: 4 July 1829Lalaing d'Audenarde, (Charles-Louis)
Born: 13 November 1779
Colonel: 7 September 1811 (3e Regiment de Cuirassiers)
Major: 26 December 1813 (2e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde)
General-de-Brigade: 5 December 1812
Baron of the Empire: 15 October 1809
Died: 4 March 1859
Senior officers who served with the 2e Regiment de Chevau-Legers
Lanciers de la Garde killed and wounded while in the service of France
during the years 1791-1815
Colbert – wounded 1798, , 2 December 1805, 17 July 1807, 6 July 1809 and 18 June 1815
Hasselt – wounded 15 November 1805 and 28 November 1812
Du Bois – wounded 1793 and 1794
Gauthier – wounded 2 December 1805
Lalaing d’Audenarde – received no wounds
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the 2e Regiment de
Chevau-Legers-Lanciers during the period 1807 – 1815
Officers killed: Eleven
Officers died of wounds: Nine
Officers wounded: Forty nine
Regimental History (battles and combats where officers and men were
killed and wounded)
1812: Moskowa and Beresina
1813: Reichenbach, Dresde, Toeplitz, Altenbourg, Leipzig, and Narene
1814: Hochstraaten, Anvers, Liege, Hoogtken, Rothiere, Monterau, Craonne, Saint-Dizier and Paris
1815: Ligny and Waterloo
Battle Honours (1815 Drapeaux)
Marengo, Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Friedland, Wagram, La Moskowa, Lutzen, and Montmirail
3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers de la Garde
Imperiale
Regimental History
1812: Created, 3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde Imperiale
1813: Disbanded and incorporated into 3e Regiment de Eclaireurs
Colonels
1812: Konopka (Jean)
Colonel-Colonel-Majors
1812: Tanski (Casimir-Alexandre) - Major
1812: Chlusowicz (Joseph) - Major
One of the above officers attained the rank of General-de-Brigade
Konopka, (Jean)
Born: 27 December 1777
Colonel: 15 July 1807 (1er Regiment de Lanciers Polonaise)
Colonel: 5 July 1812 (3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers)
General-de-Brigade: 6 August 1811
Commander of the Legion d’Honneur: 11 December 1808
Died: ?Tanski, (Casimir-Alexandre)
Born: 4 March 1774
Major: 1 August 1812
Colonel: 2 July 1813 (7e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers)
Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur: 29 May 1808
Died: 7 March 1853Chlusowicz, (Joseph)
Born: 19 March 1776
Colonel: 22 March 1812 (2e Regiment d’Infanterie de la Legion de la Vistule)
Major: 11 August 1812 (3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers)
Officer of the Legion d’Honneur: 23 June 1810
Baron of the Empire: 31 March 1812
Died: ?
Senior officers who served with the 3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers
Lanciers de la Garde killed and wounded while in the service of France
during the years 1791-1815
Konopka – wounded April 1796, 20 June 1799 and 4 August 1808
Tanski – wounded 14 July 1806 and 27 August 1813
Chlusowicz - wounded 12 June 1799, 14 July 1806 and 19 October 1812
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the 3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers During the period 1812 – 1813
Officers Killed: Four
Officers died of wounds: None
Officers wounded: Fourteen
Regimental History (battles and combats where officers and men were
killed and wounded)
1812: Malojaroslawetz and Slonim
Battle Honours
None
Attached to the 3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde was
a squadron of Lithuanian Tartares, it had been proposed to form a Regiment
but this never came about.
Escadron de Lithuanian Tartares
Squadron History
1812: Created and incorporated into 3e Regiment de Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la Garde
1813: Disbanded and remnants incorporated into the 3e Regiment de Eclaireurs
Chefs de Escadron
1812: Achmatowicz (Mustapha-Mura)
1812: Ulan (Samuel-Mirza)
None of the above attained the rank of General-de-Brigade
1812: Achmatowicz (Mustapha-Mura)- Chef d’Escadron
Born: ?
Chef d’Escadron: 24 August 1812
Died: 11 December 1812 (killed at the combat of Vilna)
Ulan (Samuel-Mirza)
Born: ?
Chef d’Escadron: 11 December 1812 (with the actual rank of Capitaine)
Died: ?
Officers killed and wounded while serving with the Lithuanian Tartares
during the period 1812-1813
Officers Killed: Two
Officers died of wounds: None
Officers wounded: Eight
Regimental History (battles and combats where officers and men were
killed and wounded)
1812: Vilna
Battle Honours
None
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