16th regiment of dragons

Contemporary time

on May 26th, 1799: With the Armed with Naples: Commander-in-chief: general Macdonald, Rusca Division, Brigadier general: Kellermann, the 16th Regiment of Dragons is to 490 h.
1804-1805 (year XIII) based with Soissons, colonel Clément (imperial Almanac for year 13).
on December 2nd, 1805 with Austerlitz, is in the 3 {{E}} Division of Dragons, ordered by the major general Beaumont (absent for disease replaced by the brigadier general Boyé), 2nd brigade (brigadier general Nicolas Joseph Scalfort). The 16th Regiment of Dragons is with 242 men in 3 squadrons, under the orders of colonel François-Marie Clement of Roncière.
on February 8th, 1807, with Eylau, is found in the cavalry of reserve under the orders of the King-Marshal Joachim Murat, Beaumont division, brigade the Turn-Maubourg.

1914, in deposit with Rheims, fact part of the 3rd brigade of dragons.
in 1967 has as tanks of the AMX 13 (biography NATO of the Lieutenant-General Paul Addy, CM, CD, Canadian officer)

Léonard DORAT, teacher and dragon at the sixteenth regiment, domiciled in Paris, department of the Seine, condemned to dead the 2 fructidor year 2, by the revolutionary commission séante in Rennes, like brigand of the Vendée.
Pierre-Charles COURNARIE, future Companion of the Release and governor of the French Western Africa, sign with the declaration of the war in August 1914, a voluntary engagement and fights in the cavalry, with the 16th Regiment of Dragons.
Jean NANTERRE, future companion of the Release frames, in November 1927, group EOR of the 1 {{Re}} Division of Cavalry to the 16th Regiment of Dragons

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