13th regiment of hunters with horse

The 13th Régiment of hunters to horse is a regiment made up under the French revolution under the name of Légion of the Americans also called at the time Légion of Saint-Georges of the name of his commander.

Creation and various denominations

September 7th 1792: Creation of a frank Legion made of volunteers of the Antilles and African Counter S being presented in front of the legislative Parliament, named legion of the Americans and the South . Its manpower envisaged are of 800 hunters to foot and 200 hunters with horse.
December 6th 1792: the American hussards (one their nicknames) are definitively a unit of hunters with horse: the 800 hunters with foot could not be recruited.
February 21st 1793: 13th regiment of hunters with horse (at this time, the future 14 {{E}} regiment of hunters with horse carries also number 13)
March 1794: the 1st company transferred to Brest and which could not leave for Saint-Domingue is joined together at the squadrons of the Légion of North, from the dragon S of the Mountain and the national Cavalerie, under the name of 13th (a) regiment of hunters with horse
1795: fusion of 13th and 13th (a) in only one regiment.

Colonel s/chef-of-brigade

  • July 1793: Joseph Boulogne, known as the Chevalier of Saint-Georges is confirmed with the head of the regiment

  • September 1793: the Chevalier of Saint-Georges is relieved; replaced by Target

(*) Officer who became thereafter Brigadier general. (**) Officer who became thereafter Major general.

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 13th regiment of hunters with horse

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

  • September 1792: Formation with Paris

  • November 1792: Organization with Amiens
  • February 1793: Quartering with Laon
  • March 1793: a Escadron of 75 men follows the army of Dumouriez
  • May 1793: the deposit of the regiment is fixed at Béthune. The unit is with Lille (effective: 559 men)
  • April 22nd, 1793: 1st company (84 men) transferred to Brest to be embarked bound for Santo Domingo there. A delegation is sent to Paris and the national Convention takes a decree on June 13rd per which these men cannot be employed with the colonies. They are placed at the disposal of Jean-Baptiste Carrier. They operate in the Vendée (Guerre of the Vendée) where they are pointed out by their violence and their exactions.

Colonels killed or wounded by ordering the regiment for this period

  • Officers wounded or killed while being used for 13th:
  • killed Officers:
  • dead Officers their wounds:
  • wounded Officers:

From 1815 to 1848

  • 1815 bachelor
  • 1825 reconstituted with the hunters of the Meuse
  • February 19th 1831 becomes 8th weapon, 18th becoming the 13th
  • January 1st, 1837 becomes the 7th regiment of lancers
  • 1840 reconstituted

Second Republic

Second Empire

  • 1852 bachelor and becomes regiment of the Guides

From 1871 to 1914

  • May 20th, 1871 reformed with the regiment of the ex-guard and the 10th regiment of walk of light cavalry

First World War

Inter-war period

Second world war

From 1945 to our days

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

  • 1805 Austerlitz
  • 1806 Iéna
  • 1855 Sébastopol
  • 1859 Magenta

With passewalk, with the 9th dragons the weather is captive 3000 Prussian infantrymen

(*) Battle carried to the flag of the régiment.

Currency

Decorations

See too

Internal bonds

  • List of the French regiments
  • List of the ranks in the French Army

External bonds

Sources and bibliography

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