1st regiment of cuirassiers

The 1st Regiment of Cuirassier S is a Régiment made up during the Guerre Thirty Year old by the prince Bernard of Saxony-Weimar (ally of the Sweden) to fight against the Austria. It made to the service of the France after the Accords of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer the October 26th 1635. It was distinguished during the wars from the Revolution and the Empire in particular with Jemmapes (1792), Austerlitz (1805), Eylau (1807), with the Moskova (1812). Moreover it is the oldest regiment of armoured tanks in the French Army . Its traditions are today continued by the group of squadrons 1st cuirassiers of the 1 {{er}} - 11 {{ème}} regiment of cuirassiers.

Creation and various denominations

1635 : enter to the service of France under the name of ''' Trefsky-Cavalry ''' in the honor of its colonel: the colonel Trefsky
October 17th 1641: ''' Flextein-Cavalry ''' following the repurchase of the regiment by the colonel Flextein
1649 becomes : becomes ''' Nimitz-Cavalry ''' following promotion of colonel Flextein and with the nomination of Nimitz to the head of the regiment
June 3rd 1651: becomes ''' Turenne-Cavalry ''' following its repurchase by the marshal of Turenne.
April 24th 1657: Régiment Colonel-General cavalry in the honor of his owner the marshal of Turenne becomes the which has been just named colonel-general of the cavalry.

1791 : becomes the ''' 1 {{er}} Régiment of Cavalry '''.

1801 : becomes the ''' 1 {{er}} Régiment of Cavalry-Cuirassiers '''.

1803 : 1st Regiment of Cuirassiers becomes .

1814 : becomes ''' Cuirassiers of the King ''' following the Restauration of monarchy.

1815 : for the Hundred Days 1st Regiment of Cuirassiers becomes again.

1815 : becomes ''' Cuirassiers of the Queen ''' following the second Restoration.

1830 : becomes again 1st Regiment of Cuirassiers to the advent of the Monarchie of July.

1919 : dissolution

1940: reformation under the same name

June 5th 1999: amalgamate with the 11 {{E}} Régiment of Cuirassiers to form the ''' 1 {{er}} - 11 {{E}} Régiment of Cuirassiers '''. It is represented there by the Groupe of Squadrons 1st Cuirassiers .

Colonels/chief of brigade

Old Mode

Of its lifting to the October 17th 1641: Mestre of camp Trefsky

October 17th 1641: Mestre of camp Flextein

1649: Mestre of camp Nimitz

1651: Mestre of camp Viscount of Turenne

1657: Mestre of camp marquis de Saint-Viance

1666: Mestre of camp marquis de Renty

1674: Mestre of camp of Drove

1685: Mestre of camp of Quémadeuc

1702: Mestre of camp the Brown one of Inteville

1711: Mestre of camp count d' Elevemont

1717: Mestre of camp count de Biouli

1730: Mestre of camp count of Ons-in-Bray

1744: Mestre of camp marquis de Soisy

1748: Mestre of camp count d' Ourches

1758: Mestre of camp knight of Persan

1761: Mestre of camp marquis of Rochette

1763: Mestre of camp Viscount of Lhuys

1768: Mestre of camp marquis d' Evry

1780: Mestre of camp marquis de Vassan

1786: Mestre of camp count de Rosambo

Revolution and Empire

1791 : Colonel of Clermont-Thunder

1792: colonel Deschamps of the Game preserve (*)

1793: Chief of brigade Claude Louis Doncourt

1793: chief of brigade Jean Maillard

1795: chief of brigade Jaques Severac

1797: chief of brigade Jean Juignet

1798: chief of brigad Margaron (**)

1803: colonel baron Guiton (*)

April 1st 1807: colonel baron de Berckheim (**)

1809: colonel Antoine Marguerite baron Clerc

(*) These officers became brigadier generals thereafter. (**) These officers became major generals thereafter.

Restoration

1814 : colonel Philippe-Christophe baron of Mothe Guery

the Hundred Days

1815 : colonel count Ordener

Second Restoration

1816 : colonel count de Béthune

1820: colonel baron of the Turn-Foissac

1825: colonel de Sainte-Marie

Flow chart

1820

Lieutenant-colonel: Jean-Pierre knight of Ghelers

major:

* Jean-Louis-Careful Shepherd

* count Gaston de Latour

Major: Claude Millot

captain executive officer:

* Alphonse d' Escrivieux

* Pierre Escars

captain-treasurer: Isidore-All Saints' day Tempié

captain-with clothing: François Draper

Lieutenant carry-standard: Augustin Duplessis

Chaplain: abbot Draper

Army surgeon: Jean-Pierre Sicard

* Surgeon assistant medical officer: Charles-Jospeph Bastide

Captains: Eugene Lefebvre, De Lahoussaye, De Castéja, Of Governed, Anne de Caradeuc, Alexandre de Toulongeon, Bouteiller and Louis Chandennier

Lieutenants: Charles De Couryol, Felix d' Haucourt, Henri de Rony, Boudin de Vesvres, of Quiqueran, Solare de Lafontaine, Louis Johanne de Sauméry and Felix d' Estremont

Second lieutenants: Vincent Leblond, De Senarmont, Philippe Dufay, Eugene de Beaupré, Hippolyte Gerard, Ambroise Badoulleau, Louis-Joseph de Facieu, Adolphe de Maissemy, Charles Grognet, Louis de Marcellus, Alexandre de Merlemont, Jacques Martin, Alphonse de Boubers, Jean-Felix Lentz, Sailor, François-Joseph Steib

Monarchy of July

1830 : colonel count Ordener

1831: colonel Fauvart-Bastoul

1839: colonel Marey

1841: colonel de Franquetot de Coigny

1843: colonel Reyau

Second Republic

1848 : colonel O' Riordan

Second Empire

1851 : colonel of Cambiaire (*)

1857: colonel of Barail

1860: colonel de Blanchaud

1864: colonel Pelletier

1865: colonel Forestier of Vendœuvre

(*) This officer became brigadier general thereafter

Third Republic

1871 : colonel de Renusson d' Hauteville

1878: colonel Thomas de Dancourt

1879: colonel Lenfumé de Lignières

1879: colonel Salvage de Clavières

1883: colonel Dulac

1890: colonel de Cléric

1891: colonel Belbèze

1896: colonel Bougon

1913: colonel Lasson

1915: colonel Gillois

1917: colonel Viry

1919 with 1940: dissolved regiment

Second world war

1940 : colonel Henri de Vernejoul

1940: colonel of Chouchet

of October 1943 has May 1944: colonel de Gonfreville

1944: colonel Henri Pernot of Breuil

1945: colonel Léridon

Fourth Republic

1946 : Gardy

1948 : Lejeune

1950 : Society man

1951: Trott

1953: of Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy

1955: Boussion

Fifth Republic

1957 : of Bort

1959: of Wheat

1961: Boully

1963 : Fantou

1964 : Ox

1966: Loizillon

1968 : of Courtivron

1970: Lecornu

1972 : Limekiln (*)

1974: of Roquefeuil (Jean-Nickel silver) (*)

1976: Pons

1978 : Boquet

1980 : Morillon (***)

1982: Priest (**)

1984: Ivanovsky

1986 : Morane (**)

1988: of Vanssay (*)

1990: you Kint de Roodenbeke, Bruno (*)

1992: Flichy (**)

1994: Néron Bancel (*)

1996: Delaunay (*)

1998: Pougin of Maisonneuve

(*) These officers became brigadier generals thereafter. (**) These officers became major general thereafter. (***) These officers became lieutenant-general of armée. thereafter

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 1st Cuirassiers

Old Mode

Army of Saxony-Cobourg

Breitenfeld

Lech

1632 : battles of Lutzen

Trefsky Cavalry

February 28th 1638: Rheinfelden

1639 : Brissac

November 1641: Head office of Rottweil

Flechstein Cavalry

1644 : Freiburg-in-Brisgau

1645: battles of Nördlingen

Colonel-general of Cavalry

1658 : the Dunes

1667: countryside of Flanders

1672: countryside of Holland

of 1675 with 1676: countryside of the the Rhine

1677: Cassel

of 1688 with 1697: War of the league of Augsburg

of 1701 with 1706: Italy

1708: Battle of Audenarde

1709: Battle of Malplaquet

1712: Battle of Denain

1713: the Rhine

of 1733 with 1735: the Rhine

of 1741 with 1742: Bohemia

1745: Battle of Fontenoy

1747: Battle of Lauffeld

1759: Minden

1789 : Garrison with Lille

Revolution and Empire

1st regiment of cavalry

1792 : Jemmapes, Anderlecht, and Tirelemont.

1793 : Maestricht (February), Roer, Neerwinden (March 18th), and Maubeuge.

1794 : Mouscron, Bridge-have-Chin, Rousselar, and the Malignant.

Countryside of Italy

1796: Rivoli and Tagliamento.

1799 : Trebbia, Secchia, Novi, and Genola.

1800 : Mozambano.

1801 : San-Massiano and taken Vérone.

1st regiment of cuirassiers

1805 : Wertingen, Ulm, Hollabrunn, Raussnitz and Austerlitz.

1806 : Iéna and Taken of Lubeck, Berlin.

1807 : Hoff and Eylau.

1809 : Eckmühl, Taken of Ratisbon, Essling, Wagram, Hollabrunn, and Znaïm.

1812 : Moskova, taken Moscow and Winkowo.

1813 : Katzbach, Leipzig, Hanau, and the defense of Hamburg.

1814 : the Roadway, Vauchamps, Bar-sur-Aube, Sézanne, and Valcourt (Haute-Marne).

1815 : Ligny, Genappe, and Waterloo.

Colonel S killed or wounded by ordering the 1st regiment of Cuirassiers.

Chief of brigade Margaron: Wounded the Thermidor 27 1799

Colonel Clerk: Wounded the October 30th 1813 and the March 30th 1814

Colonel Ordener: Wounded the June 18th 1815

Officer S killed or wounded while being used with the 1st regiment as Cuirassier under the Empire. (1805 - 1815):

killed Officers: 50

Officers dead of the continuations of their wounds: 4

wounded Officers: 86

of 1815 with 1852

1820 : Garrison with Dijon

1832: Belgium

Second Empire

1870 : Reichshoffen or Froeschwiller and Sedan

1871: Coulmiers

from 1871 to 1914

First World War

September 1914: Fact left the 2 {{E}} brigade of cuirassiers of the 1 {{Re}} division of cavalry belonging to the VI {{E}} Armed

1914: Ourcq

of 1915 with 1917: Champagne

1918: Picardy, Aisne, Champagne

Inter-war period

Second world war

1940 : reconstituted on January 1st 1940, like tank regiment of the the 3rd light division mechanical, it fights in Belgium, then during the Dunkirk and the Loire.

1945 : Colmar, Stuttgart, Neckar, the Danube, Bregenz

after being returned the first in Karlsruhe on April 4th, 1945, the 1st Regiment of Cuirassiers inserts German resistance to the east of the Black Forest, carrying brave fight of innumerable localities of which Pforzheim. It takes the enemy speed and prevents it from being restored. The 21 avil 1945, after hard combat, it penetrates in Stuttgart and reached, the 29, the Austrian border. May 1st, the 1st Regiment of cuirassiers seizes Bregenz, on the lake of Constance.

Of 1945 at our days

Of 1956 with 1961: Algeria

Of 1961 with 1999: Saint-Wendel (All: Sankt Wendel ) in the the Saar (Germany)

Feat of arms register on the standard

1792 : Jemmapes

1805 : Austerlitz

1807 : Eylau

1812 : Moskova

1918: Avre

1918: the Marne

1945: Colmar

1945: Stuttgart

It is decorated moreover Military Cross 1914-1918 with a palm and a star vermeil as well as the Military Cross 1939-1945 with three palms.

Badge of the regiment
Synthesis of the standard of the regiment, it with the form of the old French ecu: Of sown azure of flowers of gold lily, with the crenelated of five parts, built money tower money, opened and openwork of the field (weapons as of the Tower of Auvergne, family of the marshal of Turenne), with the chief of sand, the money edge. Money currency and dates. Points of mouths to figure 1 of money. The dates are that, on the right, of 1635, date of the admission of the regiment to the service of France and on the left of 1940, date of the reformation of the regiment following its dissolution of 1919, these dates are located under the currency of the regiment which is: “ Certum monstrat iter ”: “It shows the right way”.

Traditions of the regiment

Songs

The iron regiment

1st verse:

Hear you to it bright brass band
the voice of the chief and the step of the dispach riders,
Of a regiment it is imposing walk,
One sees steel armours.
Under the uniform one needs that trouble is keep silent,
noble pride makes that each one is proud.
“One feels to live and the heart beats at ease,
Three times hello with the iron regiment! ” ((a))

Refrain:

Beautiful regiment, splendid troop,
Fiers squadrons from where escapes the flash
Your aspect only me transports exalte and me,
Salut beautiful regiment of iron!!

2nd verse:

the regiment it is also the family,
Center of friends and generous hearts;
Station of honor where courage shines,
As at the good weather of the tournaments and the valiant knights.
Each one knows sublime devotion,
Noble duty which always is expensive to us,
“the heart is royal and the heart magnanime,
One is soldier with the iron regiment! ” ((a))

3rd verse:

When the bugle of the battles sounded,
Each one answers the voice of the country; Perhaps
One runs to the noble funeral,
But it is death on the enemy fields.
It is necessary then when the gun thunders, for
Voir our soldiers holy terrors of the hell,
“lead everywhere made its work and harvests
But nothing stops an iron regiment! ” ((a))

4th verse:

Until now on my roadmap,
God did not want to affix his visa,
I were however with large fears,
I saw water of Bérésina.
has Waterloo I carried the armor,
Quel day of blood, what a to remember bitter,
“Like a torrent, a hurricane which passes,
I saw charging a regiment with iron! ” ((a))

5th verse:

Ainsi spoke an intrepid old man,
When close to him a regiment passed;
Of the old soldier the gray eye was wet,
Its twenty-five years it remembered them.
Its heart moved tressaillit by hope,
When the standard passed superb and proud;
“I greet you, beautiful flag of France,
Three times hello, beautiful iron regiment! ” ((a))

Decoration

Decorations of the regiment

Quotations of the regiment
1st from Cuirassiers received during its long story 3 quotations with the Ordre of the army:

the first the May 7th 1919 in these terms:

“the units of the 1st regiment of cuirassiers combatant to foot and the sections of Mitrailleuse S showed a heroic tenacity, resistant to the German infiltration in north and the south of the Marne of the May 29th to the June 5th 1918, fighting with foot without looking with the sacrifice to contain an enemy corrosive, superior of number and decided to bore costs that”
“Re-enlisted of the 13 the July 29th 1918 costs, they were again announced by their spirit and their abnegation, in particular in front of Montvoisin where the enemy progression was definitively stopped thanks to power and with the precision of their fire, the intelligent initiative of the executives and the bravery of all the riders. ”

In 1940, the 5th light brigade mechanical (compound of 1st and the 2nd regiment of cuirassiers) receives quotations in these terms:

“Unit of new formation, educated by eminent chiefs: the Général De Lafont, the Colonel Of Vigier (2nd R.C.), the Lieutenant-colonel De Vernejoul (1st R.C.) who could communicate to him their spirit of the duty and their faith. ”
“After a walk with the enemy, long and fast, already putting to the test energy crews of tanks, these units entered from the start with a splendid energy the furnace of the combat under the orders of these same chiefs who had informed them, fighting victoriously against the German mechanical units, stopping their attacks and counter-attacking them without stop, thus allowing the D.L.M., of the 10 with the May 13rd 1940, to fulfill its mission. ”
“Employed then, of the 14 with the May 23rd, either within the framework of great units attacked by armoured vehicles, or within the framework of the D.L.M., these regiments affirmed the same heat and the same contempt of the danger. ”
“the 5th Brigade (1st and 2nd Cuirassiers) can be quoted in example of what can do an educated troop, disciplined, having the spirit of friendship, having and of sacrifice. ”

the last quotation dated February 18th, 1946, was written by the general Charles de Gaulle and comprises the attribution of the Military Cross with palm:

“Splendid Tank regiment, with the long past of glory, which did not cease, under the orders of the Lieutenant-colonel of Breuil then of the Leridon Lieutenant-colonel, to beat the German everywhere where it met it during the operations of the 5th D.B. ”
“In spite of a particularly unfavourable ground and atmospheric circumstances, after having forced the position of enemy resistance to the west of Belfort and to be themselves boldly seized Héricourt by a daring operation, the November 17th, conquered, the 27 and November 28th, Ballersdorf and Dannemarie strongly defended by the enemy and carried out with Soppe-le-Bas the junction with the French Forces of Belfort. Engaged without disabling in the areas of Hachimette, Orbey, as of the December 6th, was at the price of heavy losses, one of the principal craftsmen of the operations which led to the catch of Lapoutroie, of the Bonhomme, Orbey and the Vault, making proof, against an enemy corrosive and supported by a ground of mountains particularly favourable with the fight anti-tank devices, of a spirit of sacrifice worthy of the most beautiful traditions of the Cavalerie. November 15th with the December 20th made 2500 prisoners and captured or destroyed 30 anti-tank guns and quantity of automatic weapons; more half of its crews lost. ”
“the January 27th, leading of the area of Riquewihr and the Bridge of the Red House to a ground made difficult, by abundant snowfalls, seizes Wickerschwihr and Holtzwihr and reached the Canal of Colmar. The January 30th, seizes Wihr-in-Plain and pushes boldly in direction of Andolsheim, largely overflowing Colmar by the east. Continuing its progression it in spite of a strong enemy resistance, seizes Horbourg and Andolsdheim. After a rapid movement of night, Colmar by north attacks; the February 2nd at dawn, pushes without disabling to the heart of the city, which it conquers of brave fight, then, the day-even, seizes the localities covering the city in direction of the the Vosges. ”
“took share then with all the Campagne of Germany, since the passage of the Rhine until the suspension of the hostilities. The April 4th, entered one of the first to Karlsruhe, the 5 seized Koenigsbach and resisted the most corrosive enemy counter-attacks. From the 8 with the April 17th, German resistance inserted to the east of the Black Forest, carrying brave fight of innumerable localities, of which Pforzheim, Dobel, Schopfloch, Nagold and Horb, gaining speed the enemy and preventing it from being restored. ”
“the April 21st, after hard combat, penetrated in Stuttgart and carried its tanks in the center of the city. The April 29th, reached the first the Frontière Autrichienne and seized Bregenz on May 1st. ”
“Regiment of tank S having given the example of most beautiful military qualities, disciplined, burning, running ahead of of the most risked missions, discharged some with a success and an elegance which were never contradicted. ”

Decorations of soldiers being useful in this regiment

Weapons of honor (revolutionary distinction)

Jean Brucker, Sergeant: Rifle of honor

François Chapuy, Sapper: Rifle of Manual honor

Chardin, sergeant: Saber of honor

Jean-Baptiste Knight, sergeant: Saber honor

Antoine Dessaignes, adjudant-under-officer: Saber honor

Guillaume Dogon, Cuirassier: Snap hook of honor

Philippe Lahtrec, sergeant: Snap hook of honor

Jean-Nicolas Varocaux, sergeant: Rifle of honor

Vatrin, sergeant: Rifle of honor

Cinematographic appearance
The 1 {{er}} - 11 {{E}} regiment of cuirassiers took part in the turning of the film Our friends the cops and appears with the credits in the thanks.

External bonds

Site of the friends of the 1 {{er}} of Cuirassiers

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