1 he régiment de chasseurs à cheval

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Regiment de chasseurs d'Alsace
1 he regiment de chasseurs à cheval

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Internal association badge
active 1651 until active
Country Armoiries république française.svg France
Armed forces Flag of France.svg French armed forces
Armed forces Flag of France.svg Armée française de terre
Branch of service Hunter on horseback
Type Panzer Regiment
Insinuation "7 e brigade blindée" (7th armored brigade)
Location Thierville-sur-Meuse
Patron saint Maurice d'Agaune
motto «Ne pas subir»
" Take nothing"
commander
commander Present: Colonel Thierry de Courrèges

The 1 er régiment de chasseurs à cheval is an (armored) cavalry unit of the French army, which was set up under the Ancien Régime . The regiment excelled in the wars of revolution and the wars of the Premier Empire , for example in the cannonade near Valmy , the battle near Hohenlinden , the battle near Austerlitz , the battle near Wagram and the battle near Borodino .

List and renaming in chronological order

  • 1651: On September 24th, the regiment named Humières-cavalerie after its owner was set up. It was assigned number 22 in the ranking of cavalry regiments.
  • 1733: Renamed the Régiment de Conti-cavalerie
  • 1776: Conversion into a dragoon regiment with the new name Dragons de Boufflers
  • 1788: Transformation into a regiment of hunters on horseback with the new name Régiment de chasseurs d'Alsace
  • 1791: All regiments lost their names and were only given numbers. It was renamed 1 he régiment de chasseurs .
  • 1814: renamed Chasseurs du roi
  • 1815: dissolution
  • 1816: Re-established as Régiment de l'Allier , then renamed to 1 er régiment de lanciers (1st Uhlan Regiment)
  • July 14, 1880: The regiment received its standard, still in use, from the President of the Republic.
  • in 1938 it was renamed to 1 he régiment de chasseurs à cheval
  • 1940: The armistice was first dissolved, then returned to service in August 1940 in Orange as part of the Army of Vichy France .
  • November 27, 1942: After the German Wehrmacht marched into previously unoccupied France, the association in Vienne was dissolved.
  • March 16, 1945: New installation in Montauban
  • Until March 1956: Service in the Indochina War , then dissolution
  • New installation in Algiers on September 1st, 1956 . Used in the Algerian War of Independence .
  • July 31, 1976: Dissolution in Phalsbourg
  • August 1, 1976: Re-establishment in Canjuers ( Département Var ) with incorporation of the CPCIT (Center de perfectionnement des cadres et de l'instruction des tireurs) as "1 er régiment de chasseurs-CPCIT"
  • December 31, 1997: acquisition of the tradition of the one he régiment de chasseurs d'Afrique
  • January 1, 1998: Renaming to "1 er -2 e régiment de chasseurs"
  • End of 2009: Renaming to 1 er régiment de chasseurs à cheval , garrison in Thierville-sur-Meuse

Mestres de camp / Colonels / Chefs de brigade

Mestre de camp was the rank designation for the regimental owner and / or the actual commander. Should the mestre de camp be a person of the high nobility who had no interest in leading the regiment (such as the king or queen), the command was given to the mestre de camp lieutenant (or Mestre de camp en second). The name "Colonel" was used from 1791 to 1793 and from 1803, from 1793 to 1803 the name Chef de brigade was used . From 1791 there were no more regimental owners.

I. II. III.

Ancien Régime

  • 1651: Louis II de Crevant , Marquis d'Humières, later Maréchal de France
  • 1653: Comte d'Humières
  • 1675: Comte de Seyssac
  • 1695: Chevalier de Villeroy
  • 1700: François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy , Maréchal de France
  • 1718: Marquis d'Alincourt
  • 1733: Marquis de Bourzac
  • 1739: Comte de Choiseul-Chevigny
  • 1745: Comte de Langhac
  • 1756: Marquis de Langhac
  • 1770: Marquis de Boufflers-Rouvrel
  • 1788: Viscount de Noailles

Revolution and First Empire

restoration

  • 1816: Chabannes-La Palice
  • 1822: Delamalle
  • 1829: Busseul
I. II. III.

July Monarchy

  • 1831: Pruès
  • 1832: Prévost
  • 1840: De Buisseret
  • 1846: De Noue

Second republic

  • 1851: de Goussencourt

Second empire

  • 1859: de Bernis
  • 1867: Gérard
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Third Republic

  • 1871: de Fenélon
  • 1879: Donnat
  • 1887: Mouchet
  • 1892: Tiret
  • 1893: de Froissard de Broissia
  • 1898: Hubert de Saint-Didier
  • 1899: de la Garenne
  • 1907: de la Villestreux
  • 1911: Gallois
  • 1917: Pougin de la Maisonneuve
  • 1921: Longin
  • 1925: d'Humières
  • 1926: Nativelle
  • 1930: de Miribel
  • 1933: d'Humières
  • 1937: Ducasse
  • 1938: d'Amonville
  • 1940: Faure

Vichy regime

  • 1940: Desprez
  • 1940: Jacques Simon
  • 1941: Joppé

Fourth republic

  • 1945: Grosjean
  • 1947: Giraud
  • 1948: Delarue
  • December 15, 1948: Chef d'escadrons Ziégler
  • March 22, 1949: Levé
  • 1952: Bonichon
  • 1953: Audemard d'Alançon
  • 1954: Huot
  • 1955: Lamarque d'Arrouzat
  • 1956: Jam
  • 1957: Vié
I. II. III.

Fifth Republic

  • 1959: Magdelain
  • 1961: Boscals de Réals
  • 1962: Gaucherot
  • 1963: Sartre
  • 1965: Dautremer
  • 1967: Sauzay
  • 1969: Montariol
  • 1971: Le Chat
  • 1973: Frapin
  • 1975: Chevallereau
  • 1976: Boisselet
  • 1977: Dumerchat
  • 1979: Meyer
  • 1981: Deschamps
  • 1983: Kieffer
  • 1985: Dukers
  • 1987: Arnold Schwerdorffer
  • 1990: Sermage
  • 1992: Humeau
  • 1994: Mercier
  • 1996: Collot d'Escury
  • 1998: Cremades
  • 1999: Duchon
  • 2001: Piazza
  • 2003: Michel
  • 2005: Renard
  • 2007: Surirey de Saint Rémy
  • 2009-2011: Colonel Xavier Pineau
  • 2011-2013: Colonel Renaud de l'Estoile
  • 2013–2015: Colonel Nicolas Chabut
  • 2015-2017: Colonel Hervé Boüault
  • since 2017: Colonel Thierry de Courrèges

Garrisons

Uniform during the Ancien Régime

Uniforms as a cavalry

  • Régiment de Conti cavalerie 1757–1762

  • Regiment de Conti cavalerie de 1762-1767

  • Régiment de Conti cavalerie de 1767–1776

Uniforms as dragoons

  • Regiment de Boufflers dragons 1776–1779

  • Regiment de Boufflers dragons 1779–1786

  • Regiment de Boufflers dragons 1786–1788

Uniforms as chasseurs à cheval

  • Regiment de chasseurs à cheval d'Alsace 1788–1789

  • Regiment de chasseurs à cheval d'Alsace 1789–1791

  • 1 he régiment de chasseurs à cheval according to the decree of 1791

Battle calendar in chronological order

Ancien Régime

French Revolution and First Empire

  • Fallen or wounded commanders of the regiment
Chef de brigade Dubois-Crance: killed on April 26, 1800
Colonel Meda: died of his wound on December 7, 1812
Colonel Simoneau: Wounded June 18, 1815
  • Fallen or wounded officers between 1808 and 1814
fallen: 11
died of the wounds: 0
wounded: 82

1815-1848

Between 1840 and 1847 the regiment fought in the French conquest of Algeria.

Second empire

First World War

  • 1914: There is no information on combat activities for this year
  • 1915:
24.-27. April 1915: Trench warfare in Champagne
  • 1916: There is no information on combat activities for this year
  • 1917:
23 October 1917: fighting near Courcy (Marne)
  • 1918: There is no information on combat activities for this year

Second World War

Defensive battles in eastern France. After the armistice in 1940, the regiment belonged to the army of the Vichy regime and was disbanded in 1942 after the German occupation of the previously unoccupied part of France.

After 1945

In 1948 the regiment was deployed in Gia Lam, east of Hanoi , not far from the Pont Doumer (Doumer Bridge) (now Long Biên Bridge ). Here it had the task of securing the Hanoi Haiphong route .

Algerian war

  • May 21, 1958: Battle at Djebel Tanout

Current

Insinuation

The regiment is subordinate to the 7 e brigade blindée (7th Armored Brigade) and belongs to the Force d'action terrestre (rapid reaction force).

The unit was not affected by the realignment of the French Army in 2016 .

Division of troops

  • 4 tank scadrons
  • 1 staff and logistics cadron
  • 1 reserve intervention unit (5 e escadron)

  • Badge of the 1st Escadron

  • Badge of the 2nd Escadron

  • Badge of the 3rd Escadron

  • Badge of the 4th Escadron

  • Badge of the 5th Escadron

  • Badge of the staff and logistics squadron

assignment

The armored regiment is equipped with the Leclerc battle tank as its main weapon system. This provides permanent firepower, mobility and protection and is used in combined arms combat. The main battle tank Leclerc (in Lebanon), the wheeled armored vehicle ERC-90 Sagaie (in the Ivory Coast and - as exchangeable equipment - in Chad ), as well as the VAB and the VBL (in Afghanistan ) have already been used .

vehicles

4 main battle tanks, Strong Europe Tank Challenge 2018.

address

1 er régiment de chasseurs
Quartier Maginot
BP 82 041 - Thierville-sur-Meuse
55 108 Verdun CEDEX

Tel. 03 29 73 59 25
Fax. 03 29 73 59 42

Standard

Simplified regimental flag with the listed battles in which the regiment has participated since the revolution.

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Motto

Ne pas subir
(take nothing)

Awards

Fourragère in the colors of the Médaille militaire with the olive of the TOE

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  • Since March 17, 1958, relatives have had the right to wear the Fourragère in the colors of the Médaille militaire with the olive of the Théâtres d'opérations extérieurs.

Known members of the regiment

Antoine Richepanse (1770–1820) as Lieutenant 1792, painting by Charles Durupt (1804–1838), 1834, in the Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles)

literature

  • Roland Jehan, Jean-Philippe Lecce: Encyclopédie des insignes de l'Arme Blindée Cavalerie. Volume II: Les Chasseurs à cheval. Cheminements Éditions, 2008, ISBN 978-2-84478-708-8 .
  • Les Chasseurs de Lorraine 1 er – 2 e Chasseurs. Éditions Cénomane, Verdun 2001, ISBN 2-905596-78-3 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Témoignages de Volontaires. In: FNCV - Fédération Nationale des Combattants Volontaires.
  2. ↑ No longer part of the regiment's equipment.
  3. ↑ Regulation No. 12350 / SGA / DPMA / SHD / DAT of September 14, 2007 on the appearance of the inscriptions on the flags and standards of the troops of the army, the medical service and the fuel supply industry. Published in the Official Army Bulletin No. 27 of November 9, 2007.
  4. ^ Order AFN 1952–1962 on the assignment of the inscriptions on the flags and standards of the formations of the army and the services of November 19, 2004 (A) NORDEF0452926A by Michèle Alliot-Marie.

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