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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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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 Hollandaise����1814: 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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Placed on the Napoleon Series: February 2003
