Guides

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Don Bosco ( discussion ) 12:03, 28 Sep. 2014 (CEST)

Guiden ( French guides , pronounced gihd-, guides) were a kind of staff cavalry that were used in particular

• to the security and orderly service at the headquarters
• for reconnaissance
• to lead columns and
• as a rider.

Troop units from Guiden were first set up in the Revolutionary Wars . During the campaign in France , Major Bonaventura von Rauch led the Prussian guides on the staff of the king .

The then General Napoléon Bonaparte gave his bodyguard under Bessières the name guides instead of gardes during the Italian campaign in order not to offend the jealous directory of the French Republic. They belonged to the Garde des consuls , the later regiment of the Chasseurs à cheval de la Garde impériale . The emperor was always accompanied by four of his guardsmen, who also carried his telescope. The guides or guard hunters wore a uniform in the style of the hussars in green with red trousers and badges as well as yellow braids and buttons. Napoleon himself, in addition to the uniform of the Grenadiers of the Guards on foot, preferably wore the small uniform of a colonel of this regiment (green uniform skirt with sharp discounts and lapels) and took this with him into exile in St. Helena. In the Second Empire , Napoleon III. a guide regiment for his imperial guard in addition to the guard hunters on horseback.

The Feldjägerkorps , which was set up in Prussia in 1740 , was only partly commissioned by the guides. It was not responsible for the geographical exploration of the theater of war , especially the roads, and the preparation of maps.

After the Napoleonic Wars, there were two guide regiments in Belgium , but they were used like ordinary hunters on horseback .

The Swiss guide companies were used to protect and order the headquarters.

In Italy , each regiment of cavalry formed two pelotons guides in the event of war , who were assigned to the various headquarters for orderly service without tearing the tactical unit apart. Today the Cavalleggeri Guide regiment still exists in Italy as a tank reconnaissance unit.