1 he regiment de dragons

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Royal Dragons Regiment
1 er régiment de chevau-légers lanciers
1 er régiment de dragons

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Association badge
active 1656 to 1997
Country Blason France modern.svg France
Armed forces Flag of France.svg French armed forces
Armed forces Flag of France.svgarmy
Branch of service cavalry
Type Panzer Regiment
Insinuation 7 e division blindée
Location Lure
Nickname "Royal Dragons"
motto Royal d'abord, Premier toujours
Guidon

The Régiment Royal dragons - last 1 he régiment de dragons was a cavalry regiment that was set up in the Kingdom of France in 1656. It lasted until 1997.

Lineup and significant changes

  • May 12, 1814: After Napoleon's first abdication , the name was changed to "1 er régiment de lanciers du Roi"
  • 1815: During the hundred days again in one he régiment de chevau-légers lanciers dissolved renamed after
  • 1815: re-established as Régiment de dragons du Calvados (n ° 1)
  • 1825: Renaming to 1 er régiment de dragons
  • 1831: Renamed to 1 er régiment de dragons d'Orléans
  • 1848: Renamed to 1 er régiment de dragons
  • 1919: Disbanded
  • 1924: Re-established as: 1 er régiment de dragons
  • 1929: Disbanded
  • 1937: Re-established as: 1 er bataillon de dragons portés
  • 1940: dissolved
  • 1945: Re-established as: 1 er régiment de dragons
  • 1946: Disbanded
  • 1951: Re-established as: 1 er régiment de dragons
  • 1962: Dissolved and with parts in the 3 e régiment de hussards incorporated
  • 1963: Re-established as: 1 er régiment de dragons
  • 1997: Disbanded

Guidons

The regiment led four guidons of blue silk with a golden sun and the king's currency ribbon in the center. The embroidered lilies and the surrounding fringes were alternately of gold and silver.

Uniform in the Ancien Régime

  • Uniforms

  • 1740

  • 1750 to 1762

  • 1762 to 1763

  • 1763 to 1776

  • 1776 to 1779

  • 1779 to 1786

  • 1786 to 1791

  • from 1791

  • Illustrations by Vernet in the series "La grande armée de 1812"

  • Colonel on horseback the one he régiment de dragons

  • 1 he regiment de dragons

  • 1 he regiment de dragons

Garrisons

I. II. III.

Regimental commanders

Mestre de camp was the rank designation for the regiment owner and / or the actual commander of a cavalry regiment until 1791. (From 1791 the rank Mestre de camp was replaced by Colonel and from 1793 to 1803 by Chef de brigade. After that it was called Colonel again.) If the Mestre de camp is a person of the high nobility who is in charge of leadership of the regiment had no interest (or was too inexperienced), the command was left to the "Mestre de camp lieutenant" (or "Mestre de camp en second"). From 1791 there were no more regimental owners.

I. II. III.
  • June 14, 1656: Comte César degli Oddi
  • 1667: Antoine Nompar de Caumont , Marquis de Puyguilhem, then Comte, then Duc de Lauzun, Maréchal de camp 1663, Colonel général des dragons on April 2, 1668, Lieutenant général on March 14, 1670, Commander-in-Chief of the Army on February 1, 1690 , † November 23, 1723
  • April 2, 1668: Charles de Bonvisy
  • September 2, 1669: Louis-François de Boufflers , Maréchal de France 1693
  • May 23, 1679: Yves, Marquis d'Alègre , Maréchal de France 1724
  • April 27, 1693: Louis Armand de Beautru, Comte de Nogent
  • May 12, 1704: Paul Édouard Colbert, Comte de Creuilly
  • March 10, 1734: André Hercule de Rosset de Rocozel, Duc de Fleury
  • June 7, 1744: N., Marquis de La Blache
  • June 10, 1757: Joseph Alexandre, Comte de La Blache
  • January 1, 1770: Charles Olivier de Saint-Georges, Marquis de Vérac
  • July 2, 1776: Armand Louis de Gontaut-Biron , Duc de Lauzun
  • August 16, 1778: Jean Armand Henri Alexandre, Marquis de Gontaut
  • March 10, 1788: François Alexandre Antoine, Viscount de Loménie de Brienne
  • September 21, 1788: Antoine Gabriel Clériadus, Duc de Choiseul-Stainville
  • October 21, 1791: David Maurice de Barreau-Champoulies de Muratel
  • September 13, 1792: Louis de Tolozan
  • March 8, 1793: Louis Charles François Benoît du Blaisel
  • March 21, 1797: Jean-Baptiste Théodore Vialanes
  • August 31, 1803: Jean Thomas Arrighi de Casanova
  • June 19, 1806: Stanislas Marie Joseph Ignace Laurent d'Oullembourg
  • April 5, 1807: Paul Ferdinand Stanislas Dermoncourt
  • August 5, 1813: Jean-Baptiste Nicolas, Baron Jaquinot
  • March 28, 1815: N. Dubessy
  • 1815: Eugène d'Hautefeuille
  • 1819: Dérivaux
  • 1830: Puissant de Suzainnecourt
  • 1831: Thomas
  • 1832 January: Marie Louis Jules d'Y de Résigny
  • 1832: Duport de Saint-Victor
  • ?
  • 1868: Alphonse Benoît Forceville
  • 1871: Félix Eugène Letourneur
  • 1887: Étienne Teillard
  • 1893 to 1896: Émile Darricau
  • 1896 to 1901: Louis Benoit
  • ?
  • 1907: du Bahuno de Liscoet
  • ?
  • 1955: de Maupeou d'Ableiges H.
  • 1957: de Maupeou d'Ableiges L.
  • 1960: Agnès
  • 1963: Poirier
  • 1963: Chevant
  • 1965: O'Mahony
  • 1967: Dupont de Dinechin
  • 1969: Mehu
  • 1970: Doussau
  • 1973: Lecouffe
  • 1975: Fayolle
  • 1977: Roux
  • 1979: de Germay
  • 1981: Faure
  • 1983: Hussenot de Senonges
  • 1985: Ossent
  • 1987: Durand
  • 1989: Drion
  • 1991: Roumain de la Touche
  • 1993: Labarthe
  • 1995: Deschard

Battle calendar

Fight against the Fronde uprising (1656 to 1658)

Siege of Montmédy , Saint-Venant, Ardres and capture of La Mothe-aux-Bois .

Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659)

War of Devolution (1667 to 1668)

  • 1670: As part of the occupation forces in Lorraine , capture of Épinal and Chasté.

Dutch War (1672 to 1679)

  • 1681 to 1682: In the camp on the Saar

Reunion War (1683 to 1684)

War of the Palatinate Succession (1689 to 1698)

War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713)

War of the Polish Succession (1734-1735)

  • 1736: Garrison in Maubeuge

War of the Austrian Succession (1741 to 1748)

Seven Years War (1756 to 1763)

Return to France with garrison in Lille

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

  • June 21, 1791: Stationed in Commercy , it was the escape of Louis XVI. involved
  • 1792: With the Rheinarme, the Zentrumsarme and until 1794 with the Moselle Army
Cannonade at Valmy
Campaign to Trier
April 18, 1797: Battle at Ukerath
First battle for Zurich
  • October 2, 1799: Battle near Muthental
  • 1800 to 1803: With the Italian Army
Battle of Marengo

  • Standard model 1804 front

  • Standard model 1804 back

  • 1805 to 1807: With the Grande Armée in the Corps de cavalerie de réserve (cavalry reserve corps) and in the Corps d'observation de la Gironde (reconnaissance corps on the Gironde) - campaign to Prussia and Poland
Battle of Wertingen
Battle of Ulm
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle of Jena
Battle of Eylau
Battle of Friedland
Capture of Madrid and Battle of Talavera
  • 1812: "Corps d'observation de l'Elbe" (reconnaissance corps on the Elbe) in the "1 er corps de cavalerie de réserve de la Grande Armée" (1st reserve cavalry corps of the Grande Armée)
  • Russian campaign
Battle for Smolensk
Battle of Borodino
Battle of Dresden , Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , Battle of Hanau , Battle of Montmirail

Franco-German War

First World War

Mobilization of the regiment in Luçon

  • Subordinated to the "9 e brigade de dragons" in the "9 e division de cavalerie" (August 1914 to May 1916)
  • Subordinated to the "39 e corps d'armée" from May 1916 to July 1917
Battle of the Yser
Battle of Picardy
Fighting in Champagne 1918

Second World War

  • Fights near Hannut and in northern France. Disbanded after the armistice.

After 1945

Postcard of the barracks in Lure

When it was disbanded in 1997, the regiment consisted of:

three escadrons of four platoons each with four main battle tanks AMX 30B2 (with weapon stabilization system) plus one vehicle for each escadron for the Capitaine commandant d'unité élémentaire and one vehicle for the regimental commander - a total of 52 main battle tanks and 12 armored personnel carriers AMX-10P

Each of the escadrons had a security train.

  • There were also:
the fourth Escadron (Escadron commando) with AMX-10P and a safety train
the fifth Escadron (Commandement et de logistique - ECL) staff and supply escadron
the sixth Escadron (de défense et d'instruction - EDI) defense and training escadron
AMX-30

Association badge

Under the Ancien Régime , the dragoons wielded a scaled-down standard called the guidon. The badge of the regiment shows in the center a blue shield as the color of the dragoons, with an applied royal crown, two lilies and the signature of Louis XIV. To whom it owes its existence and who honored it with the title "Royal" in 1678. The name change in 1791 is symbolized by the "1", the two lances are supposed to refer to the year 1914 and the silver star to 1939. The currency ribbon bears the inscription:

"Royal d'abord, premier toujours"
(It begins with the royal [...], always the first)

Inscriptions on the last standard carried

The outstanding battles and campaigns in which the regiment took part are listed in gold letters on the standard :

Standard of the 1st regiment de dragons
  • Valmy 1792
  • Marengo 1800
  • Austerlitz 1805
  • Iena 1806
  • Friedland 1807
  • L'Yser 1914
  • Picardy 1918
  • Champagne 1918

Awards

The flag ribbon is decorated with:

  • the Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with two palm branches, two gold-plated stars and a silver star (the latter awarded to the 1 er groupe de chasseurs cyclistes as a temporarily assigned association);
  • the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with a palm branch;
  • the Croix de Guerre (Belgium) with a palm branch
  • The members of the regiment wear the Fourragère in the colors of the Croix de guerre 1914-1918.

particularities

In 1790 parts of the regiment were used in the suppression of the mutiny in Nancy .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cavalry standards
  2. ↑ Cinquième abrégé général du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer , Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris, 1739
  3. ↑ n ° 12350 / SGA / DPMA / SHD / DAT du 14 septembre 2007 relative aux inscriptions de noms de batailles sur les drapeaux et étendards des corps de troupe de l'armée de terre, du service de santé des armées et du service des essences des armées, Bulletin officiel des armées, numéro 27, 9 novembre 2007 Arrêté relatif à l'attribution de l'inscription AFN 1952-1962 sur les drapeaux et étendards des formations des armées et services, du 19 novembre 2004 (A) NORDEF0452926A Michèle Alliot -Marie (regulation no. 12350 / SGA / DPMA / SHD / DAT of September 14, 2007 regulates the inscriptions on the standards of the troops of the army, the medical service and the fuel supply service (Service des essences des armées). The basis is the “Bulletin officiel des armées », numéro 27, 9 November 2007)

literature

  • Cinquième abrégé de la carte du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer - Depuis novembre 1737, jusqu'en décembre 1738 , Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris 1739
  • Chronique historique-militaire , Pinard, tome 1, Paris 1760
  • Historiques des corps de troupe de l'armée française (1569–1900) , Ministère de la Guerre, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1900
  • Serge Andolenko : Recueil d'historique de l'arme blindée et de la cavalerie . Eurimprin, Paris 1968.

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