1st regiment of hunters with horse

The 1st Régiment of hunters to horse is a regiment made up under the Ancien Mode. It was distinguished at the time of the campaigns of the Guerres of the Revolution and the Empire to the battles of Valmy, Hohenlinden, Austerlitz, Wagram, and of the Moskowa.

Creation and various denominations

Colonel S and Chief of successive brigade S

  • 1791 : Philippe Murat - colonel

  • 1792: Charles Marie Monnet - colonel
  • 1794: Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc - chief of brigade (**)
  • 1799: Jean-Baptiste Dubois-Crance - chief of brigade
  • 1800: Jean-Auguste Carrie de Boissy - chief of brigade (*)
  • 1800: Louis-Pierre Montbrun - chief of brigade (**)
  • 1805: Joseph Isidore Exelmans - colonel (¤) (under the second empire)
  • 1807: Andre Charles Meda - colonel
  • 1812: Pierre François Antoine Huber - colonel (*)
  • 1814: Jean Léonard Plows - colonel
  • 1814: Alfred Armand Robert Saint-Shamans - colonel
  • 1815: Pierre Joseph Victor Simonneau - colonel

(*) Officer who became thereafter Brigadier general

(**) Officer who became thereafter Major general

( ¤ ) Officer who became maréchal thereafter

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of Ier Regiment of Hunters to horse

Revolution and Empire

Colonels killed or wounded by ordering the regiment for this period

  • Chief of Dubois-Crance brigade: killed on April 26th, 1800
  • Colonel Meda: died of its wounds on December 7th, 1812
  • Colonel Simonneau: wounded on June 18th, 1815

Officers wounded or killed while being used in Ier Regiment as Hunters to horse between 1808 and 1814

  • killed Officers: 11
  • dead Officers their wounds:
  • wounded officers: 82

From 1815 to 1848

Second Empire

From 1871 to 1914

First World War

Inter-war period

Second world war

From 1945 to our days

In 1948 it is based with Gia Lam, in the east of Hanoi, not far from the Pont Doumer, today lepont Long Good, It has in its missions protection of the road Hanoi- Haiphong. 16,17 and May 18th, 1948 the first hunter " hustled many rebellious regular Units firmly established in Huyen de Thanh Mien". It is ordered until the 12/15/1948 by Lt-Colonel de Larue, then by the major Louis Paul Ziégler until the 3/22/1949. A tank with the weapons of the regiment can be seen with the museum of the armor-plated cavalry with Saumur

Based with the camp of Canjuers in the VAr, it there had collected the traditions of the 1 {{er}} Régiment of Hunters of Africa, had dissolved in 1963, but had recreated in 1998. It is from now on related to the 2 {{E}} Régiment of Hunters with Horse, with Thierville-on-Meuse

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

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

Currency

Without fear and reproaches

Decorations

See too

Internal bonds

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

Sources and bibliography

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