4 e régiment de dragons

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Regiment Beaupré Cavalerie
4th Regiment de Dragons

4th regiment de dragon.png

Last internal association badge
Lineup 1667-2014
Country Blason France modern.svg France
Armed forces Flag of France.svg French armed forces
Armed forces Flag of France.svg Armée française de terre
Branch of service dragoon
Type Panzer Regiment
Insinuation 7 e brigade blindée (7th tank brigade)
Location Camp de Carpiagne- Aubagne (Base de Defense de Marseille Aubagne)
motto «Je boute avant. »
Awards Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with two palm branches
Croix de guerre 1939–1945 with a palm branch
"Croix de guerre des Théâtres d'opérations extérieures"
with two gold stars (for Indochina )
and a palm branch (for Iraq )
"Croix de la vaillance vietnamienne “ With a gold star
Fourragère in the colors of the Croix de guerre 1914–1918

The 4 e régiment de dragons (German: 4th Dragoons Regiment ) was an association of the French Army , which was originally set up in 1667 as the "Beaupré" cavalry regiment under King Louis XIV and finally belonged to the Arme blindée et cavalerie .

List and name changes in chronological order

  • 1667: Formation of the "Beaupré cavalerie" regiment
  • 1684: Renaming to "Chartres cavalerie"
  • 1724: Renaming to "Clermont-Prince cavalerie"
  • 1771: renaming to "Marche-Prince cavalerie"
  • 1776: Renaming to "Conti dragons"
  • 1791: Renaming to "2 e régiment de dragons"
  • 1814: Renamed "2 e régiment de dragons de la Reine"
  • 1815: Renaming to "4 e régiment de dragons"
  • 1815: Dissolution of the regiment
  • 1816: re-established under the name "Régiment des dragons de la Gironde"
  • 1825: Renaming to "4 e régiment de dragons"
  • 1926: dissolution
  • 1929: Re-establishment as part of the "4 e groupe de chasseurs cyclistes" (4th group of cycling hunters).
  • 1935: Reclassification into the "4 e régiment de dragons portés" (4th reinforced dragoon regiment)
  • 1940: dissolution
  • 1947: re-established as "4 e régiment de dragons portés"
  • 1948: Reclassification into the "4 e régiment de dragons portés"
  • 1950: reclassification into the "4 e régiment de dragons"
  • 1954: dissolution
  • 1955: Listed as "4 e régiment de dragons"
  • 1962: dissolution
  • 1968: Listed as "4 e régiment de dragons"
  • 1990: Reclassification into: "Groupe d'escadrons 4 e régiment de dragons"
  • 1994: dissolution.
  • On July 27, 2009, the regiment was reorganized from the personnel and stocks of the dissolved Cuirassier Regiment 1-11 in Carpiagne .
  • 2014: The regiment was disbanded on July 1st

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.

  • 1773–1781: Mestre de camp Jean Baptiste Camille de Canclaux
  • 1800: Chief de Brigade Pierre Watier
  • 1809–1811: Colonel Pierre Joseph Farine du Creux
  • 1811–1814: Colonel Jean-Baptiste Bouquerot des Essarts
  • 1914: Colonel de Mareuil
  • 1914: Colonel Dolfus
  • 1914–1915: Commandant Oré
  • 1915-1918: Lieutenant-Colonel de la Font
  • 1956-1958: Colonel de Maupeou
  • 1958-1960: Colonel de Sevelinges
  • 1960–1962: Colonel Dumas
  • 1962: Colonel Rapenne
  • 1968-1970 Colonel Mercier
  • 1970-1972 Colonel Caulery
  • 1972–1974 Colonel Robert
  • 1974-1976 Colonel Duquesne
  • 1976-1988 Colonel Chavanat
  • 1978–1979 Colonel de Rolland
  • 1979-1981 Colonel Maes
  • 1981-1983 Colonel Carlier
  • 1983–1985 Colonel Petit de Bantel
  • 1985–1987 Colonel Choué de la Mettrie
  • 1987-1989 Colonel Hablot
  • 1989–1990 Colonel Gallineau
  • 1990-1992 Colonel Bourret
  • 1992-1994 Colonel Marchand
  • 2009–2011 Colonel du Breil de Pontbriand
  • 2011–2013 Colonel Baudouin
  • 2013 - 2014 Lieutenant colonel Le Carff

Battle calendar

Ancien Régime

Revolutionary Wars and Wars of the First Empire

  • 1792
Cannonade near Valmy , member of the Armée de la Moselle - campaign to Trier
  • 1793
Second battle near Weissenburg
  • 1794
Battle of Aldenhoven
  • 1796
Deputy to the Rhine and Moselle Army - Battle of Biberach

  • Standard model 1804 front

  • Standard model 1804 back

  • 1805: Campaign to Austria
Battle of Ulm , Battle of Austerlitz
  • 1806: Campaign against Prussia and Poland
Battle of Pułtusk
  • 1807: Campaign against Prussia and Poland
Battle of Eylau
  • 1809: Spanish War of Independence
Battle of Talavera , battle of Alcantara
  • 1811
Siege of Badajoz , Battle of La Albuera
  • 1813: Campaign in Germany
Battle of the Nations near Leipzig
  • 1814: Campaign in France
Battle of Bar-sur-Aube , battle of Mormant

1815-1848

During the First Restoration , the unit was called "2 e régiment des dragons de la Reine" (2nd Regiment Queen Dragoons) and then received its previous name again during the reign of the Hundred Days . Participation in the Battle of Waterloo . After Napoleon's abdication , it became the "Régiment des dragons de la Gironde" (Gironde-Dragoons Regiment), only to become the "4 e régiment de dragons" again in 1825 .

Second empire

During the Second Empire , the regiment was not involved in any combat operations until 1870.

1870-1914

In the Franco-Prussian War , the regiment was used in the "Armée de la Loire" (Loire Army). Further information is not available at the present time.

In 1880 it was stationed in Chambéry .

First World War

In 1913 the unit belonged to the "12 e brigade de dragons" (12th Dragoon Brigade) in Commercy and Sézanne , which was part of the "2 e division de cavalerie" (2nd cavalry division) from August 1914 to November 1918 . The "2 e division de cavalerie" was initially (until September 1914) subordinate to the "Corps de cavalerie" (cavalry corps) of Général Conneau.

  • 1914
From August 4th to 15th, the regiment had the task of disguising or covering movements of units of the 1st and 2nd Army. In the battle at La Mortagne on August 25, two squadrons held the forest of Lalau against the advance guard of German hunters. After the First Battle of the Marne , the dragoons dismounted and continued to fight as infantrymen. On the orders of the regimental commander, Colonel Dolfus, the dragoons occupied the villages of Chazelles and Gondrexon on November 2nd, and Saint-Sauveur and Val-et-Chatillon ten days later.
  • 1915
Trench warfare in Lorraine .
  • 1916
Trench warfare in Alsace until June
Battle of the Somme east of Amiens . Made temporarily mounted, the Dragoons should extend the anticipated breakthrough. After this breakthrough failed, they returned to the trenches.
November 1916 to
  • January 1917
Trench warfare at Soissons . In early March, the regiment moved to Mailly to recover. From April 17th, deployed in the Battle of the Aisne . The unit then occupied the front sector of Ludes , east of Reims . From June and September she carried out security tasks in the immediate vicinity of Paris .
  • 1918
February 1918: Security tasks in Valence and then in Saint-Étienne .
After the German spring offensive , the regiment was made mounted again and deployed in Flanders . In the battle for Locre from April 26th to 29th, 1918, it lost 80% of its personnel to fallen, wounded and prisoners. It was praised for this in the army order. After a march over 200 kilometers to Ourcq and the capture of Montmarlet and Montemafroy, the association received the second mention in the army command and the Fourragère in the colors of the Croix de guerre 1914-1918.

Interwar period

From 1918 to 1923 the regiment was stationed in Castres (Tarn) and then moved to Carcassonne , where it was disbanded in 1926. In 1929 it was re-established in Trier as "4 e bataillon de dragons portés". It was part of the "4 e groupe de chasseurs cyclistes". Despite the misleading name, the association was not equipped with bicycles, but with half-track vehicles of the type "Autochenille Citroën-Kegresse C6 P. 14", light armored vehicles AMR and sidecar motorcycles. In 1935, the Association had been strengthened to the regiment and was a "four e régiment de dragons Portes" in Verdun in garrison .

Autochenille Citroën Kegresse C6 P. 14

Second World War

AMR 35 light tanks

The association had meanwhile been equipped with the AMR 35 light tank . On May 10, 1940, the regiment, together with the remnants of the "1 e division légère mécanique" (1st light mechanized division) was transferred to the Netherlands in the Tilburg region . After two days of heavy fighting, the regiment initially dodged a line south of the Albert Canal and then moved back to France. During the subsequent defensive battles it was smashed and on July 8, 1940, it was declared disbanded. It had received an honorable mention in the Army Command for its operations.

Since 1947

In February 1947 the association was set up as "4 e bataillon de dragons portés" and relocated to Tonkin , where it arrived on March 25 of the same year. On November 1, 1948, the name was changed to "4 e régiment de dragons portés", which was followed on February 16, 1950 by renewed renaming to "4 e régiment de dragons". On June 30, 1954, it was disbanded in Indochina after seven years of service. The regiment was mentioned twice in the report of the army corps and was given the right to put the inscription "Indochine 1947-1954" on the standard. The "4 e régiment de dragons" was then set up again on November 15, 1955 as part of the "5 e division blindée" (5th armored division) in Germany, to go to Algeria for the "19 e division d'infanterie" (19th infantry division ) to be relocated.

After seven years of service in Algeria, it was dissolved again on June 1, 1962. The staff left Algiers on June 19. On April 28, 1968, there was a renewed setup in Olivet , two squadrons were equipped with the AMX 13 tank destroyer and two companies with VTT (Véhicule de transport de troupes - personnel transport vehicle ).

On June 30, 1979 the dissolution took place with the reassembly on September 1 of the same year in Mourmelon. It was equipped with 54 AMX-30 main battle tanks, which were soon replaced by the AMX-30 B2 model. The 1st Squadron was deployed from January to June 1984 with personnel in "Operation Manta" in Chad . There were no longer any conscripts in the regiment. The 4th Dragoon Regiment was the heavy regiment of the blindée et cavalerie arms in the "Division Daguet" in the Second Gulf War . It took part in the attack on the city of As Salman on February 24-26, 1991, together with the "3 e régiment d'infanterie de marine" (3rd Marine Infantry Regiment). It was mentioned in the army report and was given the right to wear the "croix de guerre des Théâtres d'opérations extérieurs" (Croix de guerre for theaters of war overseas) with a palm branch.

In September 1992 the regiment was part of the UN Protection Force (FORPRONU) in Croatia .

Disbanded in 1994, the regiment's standard was handed over to the "Center d'entraînement au combat - CENTAC" (combat troop school) in Mailly on June 28, 2006.

In 2009 it was re-established, it took the place of the dissolved "1-11 e régiment de cuirassiers" (1st – 11th cuirassier regiment) in Carpiagne and took over its chars Leclerc . One department was commanded in Lebanon and there was part of the UN Protection Force (FINUL)

On July 1, 2014, the regiment was disbanded.

active

Insinuation

The regiment was last under the 7 e brigade blindée (7th tank brigade)

composition

  • Four tank squadrons equipped with the Leclerc main battle tank  :
  • A staff and supply squadron
  • A reserve squadron

Last missions

In 2009, 70% of the regiment was deployed in Lebanon , Kosovo , Sénégal and Afghanistan . An important part of the tasks is also the fight against terrorism, for which the regiment assigns personnel in Paris , Strasbourg and Marseille .

Standard of the regiment in 1927

Standard

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

Internal association badge

Until 1961 the regiment carried a badge with the image of an Ardennes wild boar (Sanglier des Ardennes)

Since 1968, the coat of arms of Jacques-François de Choiseul, marquis de Beaupré (1633–1686), who founded the regiment in 1667, has been used as a badge: azure shield, a gold cross in four fields and with two five and two four gold panels divided, crowned by an Empire dragoon helmet with a white plume. At the foot is the currency ribbon with the inscription "Je boute avant".

  • Badge of the staff and supply squadrons

  • Badge of the 1st Squadron

  • Badge of the 2nd squadron

Motto

“Je boute avant” (I push forward) has been the regiment's motto since it was stationed in Verdun in 1935.

The earlier motto is handed down in a publication from 1756: "Spes altera Martis" , another hope of the god of war . The spelling "Spes altera metis" , which was used in some publications back then and to this day, is obviously wrong. It makes no sense and cannot be translated , as has been attempted "unofficially", as "L'autre espoir de l'âme", Another Hope of the Soul . The same applies to the spelling "Spes altera mertis" from a publication from 1740.

Former uniforms

  • 1757 as Clermont cavalerie

  • 1762 as Conti cavalerie

  • 1776 as Conti dragons

  • 1779 as Conti dragons

  • 1786 as Conti dragons

  • 1791 as 4 e dragons

Known members of the regiment

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vietnamese cross for bravery
  2. ↑ that is, there were companies of different branches of service in the inventory
  3. ↑ Restructurations in the Defense: les regiments et les sites qui seront touchés . MYTF1NEWS. October 3, 2013. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ Carpiagne: un régiment part, un autre arrive - armée - France 3 Provence-Alpes. In: provence-alpes.france3.fr. Retrieved January 22, 2015 (French).
  5. ^ La Provence: Dissolution du régiment des Dragons de Carpiagne. In: dailymotion.com. Retrieved January 22, 2015 .
  6. ↑ which type it is is not specified
  7. ↑ the strange numbering is due to the amalgamation of the 1st and 11th cuirassier regiments
  8. ↑ Le 4e régiment de dragons renaît au Liban on www.defense.gouv.fr
  9. ↑ 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
  10. ↑ Histoire des Insignes du 4 ° Regiment de Dragons . collection-insignes-napo39.fr. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
  11. ↑ Charles-Louis d'Authville Des Amourettes : Essai sur la cavalerie tant ancienne que modern auquel on a joint les instructions & les ordonnances nouvelles qui y ont rapport, avec l'état actuel des troupes à cheval, leur paye, & c. , à Paris, chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, imprimeur-libraire du Corps royal de l'artillerie & du génie, rue Dauphine, à l'Image de Notre-Dame. 1756. p. 154 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  12. ^ Dictionnaire militaire ou, Recueil alphabétique de tous les termes propres à l'Art de la Guerre [...] , Seconde Edition, Tome Second. Paris 1745, p. 543 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  13. ^ Union Nationale de l'Arme Blindée Cavalerie Chars unabcc.org
  14. ↑ Sixième abrégé de la carte générale du militaire de France 1740, p. 148 ( limited preview in the Google book search); Septième abrégé de la carte générale du militaire de France 1741, p. 159 ( limited preview in Google Book search)

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