11th regiment of hunters with horse

The 11th regiment of hunter with horse was stationed with Berlin with the Quartier Napoleon until 1994.

History

  • 1762 - foreign volunteers, mixed troops of cavalry and infantrymen are raised by the marshal of Soubise.
  • 1763 - They form a legion with four squadrons.
  • 1788 - Under the impulse of the Count de Brienne, the hunters of Gévaudan, create in 1779 by meetings of the squadrons of the legion Soubise take the title of hunters of Normandy and become the 11th regiment of hunters with Cheval.
  • 1781 with 1815 - the 11th regiment of hunters with Cheval takes part almost without interruptions in all the campaigns of the Revolution and the Empire.
    • 1792 - It charges with '' Valmy '' and '' Jemappes ''.
    • 1793 - It is with Neerwinden, Maubeuge and Wattignies.
    • 1794 - It contributes to the victory of Fleurus.
    • December 3rd 1800 - Taken along by his chief of police, colonel Bessières, it charges four consecutive times at Hohenlinden and removes the decision.
    • 1805 - It is illustrated with Ulm and Austerlitz.
    • 1806 - Iena and Lübeck.
    • November 22nd 1806 - the regiment ravels victoriously in front of the Emperor with Berlin.
    • May 1807 - After the hard combat of Eylau then of Friedland, the Lassalle general, during a review passed with Elbing through the Emperor, the 11th regiment of hunters presents to horse by this sentence which will become its currency “Lord, here are the goods”.
    • 1812 - With the Large army it covers glory with the Moskowa.
    • 1815 - Waterloo which marks the final end of the Empire. To the glare of the Napoleonean epopee will succeed the less glorious era of the garrison life.
  • 1861 with 1865 - the 11th regiment of hunters with horse finds the way of the combat and fights in Algérie, with the avant-garde of the columns Martineau and Lapasset-Deligny.
  • 1870 - Escaping the disaster from Sedan, the regiment beats a retreat, loses the three quarters of its manpower and is restored with Avignon.
  • 1914 - As of the August 3rd it is in contact with the enemy. It enters the first occupied Mulhouse.
  • 1916 - Verdun and the Sum.
  • 1917 - the way of the Ladies - the Champagne.
  • 1919 - Aachen which it occupies, the 11th regiment of hunters with horse receives the Fourragère with the colors of the Military Cross. It went “to the feeding trough of the Rhine”, thus carrying out the wish, old man one half-century old of the French cavalry. It then joined as a winner his good garrison of Vesoul.
  • Second world war
    • the Regiment, burst in four groups of recognition, tries vainly, at the price of heavy sacrifices to be opposed to the enemy.
    • 1944 - During the countryside of the Release, it is given on foot, enters in Germany and occupies the Palatinat until the April 30th 1947.
    • April 30th 1947 - Dissolution.
  • the December 31st 1954, the 11th regiment of hunters with horse east recreates. It finds its standard and its traditions.

Standard

In the folds of sound standard the names of the following battles are:

(Newspaper Source interns 11th regiment of hunters, VLB Here are the Goods )

Composition

This regiment was made up as follows:
  • 1st squadron Semper Primus
  • 2nd squadron duet deo rum
  • 3rd squadron
  • 11th squadron - instruction
  • ECR Squadron of command and recognition
  • It was equipped with tanks AMX-30 B1.

External bonds

Site of old of the regiment

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