5 ^e regiment de dragons

Régiment Colonel-Général Dragons 5 e régiment de dragons
Internal association badge
Lineup	1668
Country	France
Armed forces	French armed forces
Armed forces	Armée française de terre
Branch of service	Armored force
Type	Teaching regiment
Location	Camp de Mailly
Patron saint	St George
motto	« Victoria pinged » («He beautifies himself through victory»)
equipment	Leclerc (tank)
Awards	Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with three palm branches and a silver star Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with a palm branch

The Régiment Colonel-Général dragons - most recently 5 ^e régiment de dragons ( 5 ^e RD ) is an active association of the French cavalry, which was established in 1668. It currently belongs to the 7e brigade blindée.

Lineup and significant changes

Louis-Bonaparte as Colonel des 5e régiment de dragons , Charles Jalabert, d'après Jean-Baptiste Isabey , 1852, Musée national du Château de Malmaison .

• 1668: Established as Régiment Colonel-Général dragons from the "Régiment dragons étrangers du Roi"
• 1791: Renamed to: 5 ^e régiment de dragons
• 1814: Renamed to: Régiment des dragons du Dauphin (No. 3)
• 1815: Renamed to: 5 ^e Régiment de dragons
• 1816: Renamed to: Régiment des dragons de l'Hérault (No. 5)
• 1825: Renamed to: 5 ^e régiment de dragons
• 1928: Disbanded
• 1929: Re-established as the 5th ^e bataillon de dragons portés , taking over the tradition of the 6e groupe de chasseurs cyclistes and the 5 ^e régiment de dragons
• 1939: 5 ^e regiment de dragons portés
• 1942: Disbanded
• 1944: Re-established as the 5 ^e régiment de dragons
• 1946: Disbanded
• 1948: Re-established as the 5 ^e régiment de dragons
• 1951: dissolved
• 1953: Re-established as the 5 ^e régiment de dragons
• June 1, 1964: Disbanded; the 7 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval was renamed the 5 ^e régiment de dragons .

renamed

• 2003: dissolved on June 30th
• January 2016: reassembly as a teaching regiment in the "CENTAC - 5 ^e régiment de dragons"
• July 1, 2016: As part of the realignment of the French Army, subordinate to the "7 ^e brigade blindée"

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 (e.g. 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.

• As Colonel général

1668: Antonin Nompar de Caumont de Puyguilhem, Duc de Lauzun 1669: Nicolas d'Argouges, Marquis de Rannes 1678: Louis-François de Boufflers 1692: René de Froulay de Tessé , Comte de Tessé 1703: Antoine V de Gramont, Duc de Guiche 1704: François de Franquetot de Coigny, Duc de Coigny

1734: Jean-Antoine-François de Franquetot, Comte de Coigny 1748: François de Franquetot de Coigny, Duc de Coigny 1754: Marie-Charles-Louis d'Albert de Luynes, Duc de Chevreuse 1771: François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny , Duc de Coigny 1783: Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable d'Albert de Luynes , Duc de Luynes

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.

1671: Gabriel de Cassagnet, Marquis de Tilladet 1681: Balthazar Phélypeaux de Châteauneuf, Comte de Saint Florentin 1692: N. de Saint Mars 1694: N. Moret de Bournonville 1702: Charles Legendre de Berville 1719: N. de Préval 1727: Jean Toussaint de La Pierre, Marquis de Frémeur 1744: Gédéon Marie Léopold, Marquis de Goyon 1748: Charles Marie Léopold, Comte de Dunois 1758: Marie Jean Louis Riquet, Chevalier de Caraman 1769: Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable d'Albert de Luynes , Duc de Luynes 1771: Jean-Philippe de Franquetot, Chevalier de Coigny 1780: Jean Jacob, Baron de Coëhorn 1784: Antoine Louis de La Vieuville, Marquis de Wignacourt 1786: Hugues Hyacinthe-Timoléon, Duc de Cossé 1788: Pierre Charles, Comte de Seuil

1791: Joachim Charton 1792: Auguste Marie Henri Picot , Marquis de Dampierre 1793: Pierre Joseph Le Cler, dit Verdet 1796: Jean Baptiste Milhaud 1800: Louis Bonaparte 1803: Ythier Sylvain Pryvé 1804: Jacques Nicolas, Baron Lacour 1808: Louis Ernest Joseph, Comte de Sparre 1812: Morin 1815: Canavas de Saint-Amand 1815: Borie de Vintimille 1816: de Calvières 1818: de Hanache 1830: de Lafitte 1833: Koenig 1843: de Solliers

• Chefs de corps

1900: Villiers 1903: Granier de Cassagnac 1906: Gallet 1907: Boudenat 1910: de Lallemand du Marais 1914: Dauve 1916: Maissiat 1917: Bucant 1918: Letixerant 1920: Morgon 1921: Herbillon 1923: Villemont 1925: Wallace 1929: de Causans 1934: de Saint-Laumer

1938: Drand de Villers 1940: Chavannes de Dalmassy 1940: Brousset 1940: Watteau 1944: Georges de la Ferté-Sénectère 1945: de Legue de Keplean 1946: de Coulanges 1948: d'Origny 1951: Dewatre 1952: Brute de Remur 1954: Jouslin de Noray 1957: Lavigne 1959: de Chasteignier 1961: Ceroni 1964: Duplay

1966: Gilliot 1968: Martin 1970: Ract-Madoux 1972: de la Follye de Joux 1974: Pichot 1975: Chaix 1977: Morin 1978: Allard 1979: Charpy 1981: Toujouse 1983: d'Hérouville 1985: Millier 1987: Ledeuil 1989: Saulais 1991: Boyer

1993: Leduc 1995: de Quatrebarbes. 1997: de La Bretoigne 1999-2001: Colonel Martial 2001-2003: Colonel Esparbes

Uniforms

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  1733-1750

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  1750-1759

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  Compagnie du Colonel (1st company) 1762 - 1776

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  2nd and following companies 1762-1776

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  1776

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  Compagnie du colonel (1st company) 1786

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  All other companies 1786

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  1791

Battle calendar

Ancien Régime

Standard until 1791

• 1672–1678: Dutch War :
  • 1674: Battle of Seneffe
  • 1677: Battle at Peene
• 1688–1697: War of the Palatinate Succession
  • 1692: Siege of Namur
  • 1692: Battle of Steenkerke
  • 1693: Battle of Neerzüge
• 1701–1710: War of the Spanish Succession
  • 1703: Battle of the Speyerbach
  • 1706: Battle of Ramillies
  • 1707: Battle near Lorch
  • 1709: Battle of Malplaquet
• 1740–1748: War of the Austrian Succession
  • 1746: Battle of Roucoux
  • 1747: Battle of Lauffeldt
• 1756–1763: Seven Years War
  • 1757: Battle of Hastenbeck

Revolution and First Empire

• French Revolution and First Empire
• 1792:

Cannonade at Valmy ,

Fight at Quiévrain

• 1793:

Battle of Neer winds , battles of Lille , and Gertruydenberg

Battle of Wattignies

• 1794:
  • Allocation of the regiment to the "Armée des Ardennes" (Ardenne Army) and then to the " Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse " (Sambre-Maas Army)
• 1796–1797:
  • Assignment to the "Armée d'Italie" (Italian Army) with participation in the Italian campaign (1796–1797)

1796: Battle of Mondovi

1796: Battle of Castiglione

1796: Battle of Bassano

• • Italian campaign (1799-1800)

1799: capture of Cremona

1800: Battle of Marengo

• 1805: Third coalition war

Battle of Wertingen

Battle of Austerlitz

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  Standard model 1804 front

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  Standard model 1804 back

• 1806–1807: Campaign against Prussia and Poland

Battle at Nasielsk

Battle of Eylau

Battle of Friedland

• 1808: Spanish War of Independence

Battle of Almonacid

Battle of Ocaña

• 1813: Spanish War of Independence

Battle of Vitoria

• 1813: Campaign to Germany

Battle of the Nations near Leipzig

• 1814: Campaign in France
  • Battle of Craonne
  • Battle of Fère-Champenoise
• 1815: Campaign to Belgium
  • Battle of Ligny
  • Battle of Waterloo
  • July 1, 1815: Battle at Rocquencourt

1815-1848

1823: Campaign to Spain

1831: Belgian Revolution - (Ten Days Campaign / August 2 - 12, 1831)

Second empire

• Second empire

During the Franco-Prussian War , the regiment was assigned to the Armée du Rhin (Rhine Army).

Battle of Spichern

Siege of Metz

Battle of Colombey

Battle of Gravelotte

Battle of Noisseville

1871-1914

Alphonse de Neuville 1878 "Dragoon officer crossing the river"

• 1871–1873: Garrison in Camp de Graves, Abbeville , Amiens
• 1873–1885: Garrison in Saint-Omer
• 1885–1914: Garrison in Compiègne

First World War

→ Main article : French cavalry in World War I

• When the war broke out, the regiment was assigned to the "Sordet Cavalry Corps". Together with the 21st ^e régiment de dragons it belonged to the “5 ^e division de cavalerie” (5th cavalry division) of the General Lastour

• 1914:

In August the regiment was involved in fighting on the Franco-Belgian border. It fought in the Battle of Liège , Neufchâteau (Belgium) , Fleurus , Orbais and arrived in Maubeuge on August 21st . After fighting at Charleroi , the unit fell into general retreat and arrived in the Versailles area on September 5 .

In the First Battle of the Marne , the regiment was deployed at Betz , Nanteuil , Margny, Rosière and Senlis . It was so committed that it earned it an honorable inscription on the standard. (L'Ourcq 1914)

In the race to the sea , the dragoons fought at Péronne , in Picardy and at the Battle of Arras. On October 5th they attacked the German lines on foot near Riez-Bailleuil and were able to push them back several kilometers.

On November 11th, the regiment arrived in Ypres to be finally used in the trench warfare.

• 1915:

In February the unit moved to Champagne and in March to the Hartmannswillerkopf , where it earned another honorable inscription on the standard. (Vosges 1915).

In May it was moved to Amiens and in June to Artois , where it was used in trench warfare.

• 1916:

The regiment was used in trench warfare. Colonel Dauve was replaced by Colonel Massiat as regimental commander.

• 1917:

On May 19, the dragoons moved to Noyon , where they were made mounted and used for surveillance and reconnaissance tasks in the Chauny - Tergnier region. Afterwards, dismounted, they returned to the trench warfare and occupied the trenches in the Coucy section .

On August 15, Lieutenant-Colonel Bucant became the new regimental commander.

• 1918:

The regiment was at rest until the end of May.

On March 18, Lieutenant-Colonel Letexerant became the new commander.

Mounted again, the dragoons marched from May 28 via Meaux to Mareuil-sur-Ourcq. There they dismounted and the town of Montigny was occupied. On June 2, there was an attack without artillery preparation on the German positions at Marizy and Passy-en-Valois. In July, the German troops who had already crossed the Marne were pushed back at Villesaint, Dormans and Château-Thierry . The Dragoons made several counter attacks on foot. On July 17th, the regiment took part in the retaking of Œuilly. This Second Battle of the Marne brought the regiment the inscription La Marne 1918 on the standard.

On the day of the armistice, November 11, 1918, the regiment was in Nancy . On December 6th it crossed the German border and was in Pirmasens until January 1919 , then in Landau (Palatinate) and in February in Bierstein - Oppenheim in garrison. In July 1919 it was moved to Worms and later to Düsseldorf.

Interwar period

Stationing locations

• 1919–1925: Worms then Düsseldorf
• 1925: The Dragoons returned to France and were stationed first in Auxonne and then in Gray . There the regiment was disbanded on October 28, 1928.
• 1929: In November the standard in Lyon was handed over to the new traditional association, the "5 ^e bataillon de dragons portés". This replaced the previous “6 ^e groupe de chasseurs cyclistes” (6th group of cyclist hunters).

Second World War

• Second World War
• 1939

The "5 ^e bataillon de dragons portés" was converted back into the "5 ^e régiment de dragons". It was part of the "1 ^re division de cavalerie" (1st cavalry division) and was commanded to the Aisne on August 27th.

• 1940

In February, the unit was subordinated to the 11 ^e Brigade leger mechanisée (11th Light Mechanized Brigade) of the General d'Arras.

On May 10th the regiment stood at Revin , crossed the Meuse at Dinan and fought in Belgium until May 15th. Here near Morville (Belgium) it earned the honorable inscription on the Standard la Meuse 1940 . Under violent attacks, the remaining Dragoons broke away from the front and took up another position four kilometers further near Hirson . They were then regrouped on the 16th of Nai at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache.

On May 17th, defense positions were taken at Oisy (Aisne).

On May 18, the regiment consisted of 10 officers and 130 NCOs and horsemen. They only had 5 cartridges per man and withdrew to Bohain . Here they were trapped by German tanks and after the ammunition ran out, they were taken prisoner. The escaped and the regimental baggage gathered in La Souterraine , where the regiment was formally disbanded. The standard could be hidden at the Château de Meyrieu until the liberation.

• 1940-1942:

As part of the so-called armistice army (the army of unoccupied France - also called Vichy France ), the regiment was reorganized in Macon in August 1940. The commanding officer was Colonel Watteau. In view of the Allied landing in Algeria, the 5 ^e RD was relocated to Toulon for coastal protection on November 8, 1942 . It stayed here for 10 days and then returned to Macon, where it was disarmed and demobilized on November 27th.

• Resistance

Most of the dismissed dragoons joined the resistance. Many who were apprehended by the Gestapo were subjected to torture and executions, or died in the deportation. The sacrifice of these men was honored with the inscription Résistance Bourgogne 1944 on the standard. The relatives of the former 5 ^e RD were then involved in the liberation of Macon Chalon-sur-Saône and Autun .

In September 1944, the regiment was set up again and held the Beaufortin section in the Alps and then fought at Ubaye . On April 22nd and 23rd, 1944, it took the “Fort Roche-la-Croix” and the “Fort Saint-Ours” and participated in the conquest of the “Col de Larche”. On Easter Monday 1945 the standard was returned to the regiment of Général de Gaulle in Chambéry . Two Escadrons were then equipped with Hotchkiss H-35 main battle tanks and two more as reconnaissance squadrons with Bren Carriers .

1945-2003

AMX 13 tank destroyer

AMX 13 SS 11 tank destroyer

Garrisons

• 1948–1951: Schwaz and Hall in Tirol
• 1953-1964: Périgueux
• 1964–1968: Friedrichshafen
• 1968–1978: Tübingen
• 1978-2003: Camp de Valdahon

The last used tank type AMX-30 B

• 1945:

At the beginning of September, the Chambéry regiment was transferred to the Arbois (Jura) area, where it was equipped with the missing material.

Relocation to Austria began on September 8th.

On November 8th, a troop inspection took place in Dornbirn in front of the Général Betouard. The unit then advances to Tyrol. The escadrons were stationed in Lermoos , Ehrwald and Mühl. The staff came to Reutte .

• 1946:

On April 10, the regiment was disbanded and the staff was distributed to “25 ^e DAP”, the “École de cavalerie de Saumur” (cavalry school in Saumur ) and the 2 ^e régiment de dragons . The latter was the only French regiment that remained in Austria.

• 1948:

On April 15, the "5 ^e RD" was re-established as a reconnaissance regiment in Tarascon . In October it took over the garrisons of the "2 ^e RD" in Schwaz and Hall .

• 1950:

Equipped with M24 Chaffee tanks

• 1955:

After five years as an occupying force in Austria, the Dragoons returned to France. In Périgueux the unit was converted into a tank regiment and equipped with M4 Sherman tanks.

On February 1st, the unit was transformed into a teaching regiment (Center d'Instruction) of the ABC . The main task was the training of the armored forces intended for the fight in Algeria ( Algerian War of Independence ).

On September 5, an infantry battalion was set up in Camp du Ruchart and incorporated into the regiment. It carried the designation "Bataillon de dragons 2/342". It was embarked for Casablanca on October 10th and moved to stations east of Rabat .

• 1956:

In January, the 2/342 marched south via Touissit to Oujda and Figuig to be deployed in border guards on the Algerian-Moroccan border. On March 1, the battalion became a trunk for the re-established "21 ^e régiment de dragons".

• 1964:

The training regiment was disbanded again.

On June 1st, the 7th ^e régiment de chasseurs d'Afrique in Friedrichshafen was renamed “5 ^e régiment de dragons”. The equipment consisted of the AMX 13 and AMX 13 SS 11 tank destroyers .

• 1968: The garrison was relocated to Tübingen. Here the regiment moved into the same barracks as the "24 ^e Groupe de Chasseurs" (Bataillon de la Garde). This was dissolved on August 31, 1978.

• 1978:

On September 1, 1978, the unit moved to the training area Camp de Valdahon in order to take over the main battle tanks of the type AMX 30 from the disbanded "30 ^e régiment de dragons".

• 1991:

The regiment became part of the "7 ^e DMT" (Division militaire territoriale) and consisted of:

a staff and supply squadron

three escadrons with 17 AMX 30 tanks each

a training cadron

and the Divisional Tank Reconnaissance Squadron

• 1992:

Conversion to AMX 30 B and installation of another tank squadron.

* 1994 In July the army was reorganized. The regiment was subordinated to the "27 ^e division d'infanterie de montagne" (27th mountain division) in Grenoble . The Dragoons were involved in various UN peace missions, for example in Lebanon and Bosnia .

• 2003:

In the course of a renewed reorganization of the army, the "5e ^e régiment de dragons" was dissolved on June 30th in the Camp de Valdahon.

• 2009:

After the 4 ^e régiment de dragons was set up again in 2009 , its standard, which had previously embodied the tradition of the dragoons in the CENTAC in Mailly-le-Camp, was replaced by the standard of the "5e regiment".

• 2016:

Re-establishment as a teaching regiment in Mailly-le-camp. On July 1, 2016, it was separated from the CENTAC and placed under the "7 ^e brigade blindée". The regiment is equipped with Leclerc battle tanks . At the parade on July 14, 2018, the HK416 rifle was also used as a new equipment instead of the FAMAS .

Inscriptions on the standard

The back of the regiment's standard bears the names of the battles in which it has honored in gold letters:

• Valmy 1792
• Wattignies 1793
• Arcole 1796
• Austerlitz 1805
• Eylau 1807
• L'Ourcq 1914
• Vosges 1915
• La Marne 1918
• La Meuse 1940
• Resistance Bourgogne 1944

Awards

• The ribbon of the standard is decorated with the Croix de guerre from 1914-1918 with three palm branches and a silver star and with the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with a palm branch.

Motto

Victoria pinget (Il s'embellit par la victoire - He embellishes himself through victory)

Known members of the regiment

• Raymond Pierre Penne later General of the Revolution and the Empire
• Charles Athanase Marie de Charette de La Contrie (1796–1848), Lieutenant-Colonel in the 5 ^e RD.
• Albert Uderzo , conscript in the regiment and stationed in Schwaz from 1948 to 1949 .
• Théodore de Foudras, writer (1800/1872)

Internal association badges

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  1929

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  1936

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  1945

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  1948

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  Lebanon mission

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  1965 to 2016

Web links

• 5ème régiment de Dragons ( French ) L'Union Nationale de l'Arme Blindée Cavalerie Chars. Accessed on January 25, 2019. (13 videos about the 5e régiment de dragons and three issues of Dragons info - Trimestriel d´information du 5e régiment de dragons (PDF) from 2017)

literature

• Historiques des corps de troupe de l'armée française (1569 à 1900) , Ministère de la Guerre, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1900
• Andolenko (général), Recueil d'historique de l'arme blindée et de la cavalerie , Paris, Eurimprim, 1968
• Suzane (général), Histoire de la cavalerie française , Paris, Dumaine, 1874, 3 vol.
• Historique succinct ( Memento from October 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Historique succinct par le Lt colonel (H) Henri Azema et la participation du Lt colonel (ER) Guy Besson.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German: 5th Dragoon Regiment
2. ^ Center d'entraînement au combat
3. ↑ for the second time, for his brother, who died in a duel
4. ↑ In honor of his dragoons, he introduced the large beret in the style of hunters on foot ("la tarte"), which was worn within military properties.
5. ^ Journal de marche et des opérations du 5e régiment de dragons
6. ↑ 5th Mixed Dragoon Battalion - a unit of different branches of service
7. ↑ 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”, number 27, 9 November 2007
8. ^ Decree on the assignment of the inscription AFN 1952-1962 on the flags and standards of the army units and services of November 19, 2004 (A) NORDEF0452926A Michèle Alliot-Marie
9. ↑ This is the literal translation from French - whether it corresponds to the Latin original is not known.