4th regiment of hussards

The 4th Régiment of hussards (or the 4th RH) is a regiment made up under the Ancien Mode.

Initially named Hussards Colonel Général , it takes the name of 5th regiment of hussards at the time of the reorganization of 1791, then, that of 4th regiment of hussards after the treason of the regiment which carried this number in 1792.

Creation and various denominations

  • July 31st 1783: regiment Colonel-general of Hussards - created for the duke of Chartres with a squadron of each regiment of hussards, Bercheny, Chamborant, Conflans and Esterhazy.

  • May 30th 1788: reinforced by a quota of soldiers taken in the regiments of cavalry of Quercy, Septimanie, Nassau, of Maerck, Franche-Comté and of Évéchés.
  • January 1st 1791: all the regiments famous according to their weapon, and are numbered according to their seniority; is thus famous 5th Regiment of Hussards .
  • May 4th, 1792: after the treason of the 4 {{E}} Regiment of Hussards, the 5th regiment of hussards , old Colonel-general of Hussards , takes its number; all the following regiments are thus shifted of a number downwards.
  • 1814: becomes Régiment of Hussards of Mister
  • 1815: the name of 4th Regiment of Hussards
  • 1816 takes again: becomes Régiment of Hussards of North
  • 1825: the name of 4th Regiment of Hussards
  • July 2nd, 1940 takes again: dissolved
  • February 15th, 1945: re-creation of the 4th Regiment of Hussards starting from the elements of the COABC 405
  • October 30th, 1945: dissolved and transformed into 2 {{E}} Regiment of Hussards
  • July 15th, 1956: re-creation of the 4th Regiment of Hussards starting from the elements of the 251e B
  • 15 janier 1959: dissolved
  • April 1st, 1959: re-creation of the 4th Regiment of Hussards starting from the elements of the 31 {{E}} Regiment of Dragons
  • 1964: dissolved to become the 8th regiment of dragons and immediately recreated aec elements of the 1 {{er}} Regiment of Hunters of Africa and of the center of instruction of the 6 {{E}} Regiment of Dragons.
  • 1984: dissolution with Laon (02), of the 4th Regiment of Hussards
  • 1991: re-creation of the 4th regiment of hussards which becomes the regiment of support of the RMD-NE
  • 2000: takes to the denomination of 4th Group of Squadrons of Hussards (4th G.E.H)

Colonel s/chef-of-brigade

chief of coprs of the regiment Colonel-General (1779-1791), colonel-owner duke of Chartres.

  • count de Montréal, 1779

  • marquis of Chastelier-Dumesnil, 1783

chief of police of the 5th regiment of hussards (ex Colonel-General) 1791-1793, then 4th Hussards

  • 1791 : colonel Drouot of Walk

  • 1792: colonel Miezskoswki
  • 1793: chief of brigade Barber
  • 1794: chief of brigade Boyé
  • 1794: chief of brigade Flosse
  • 1796: chief of brigade Merlin
  • 1804: colonel Burthe d' Annelet
  • 1811: colonel Christophe
  • 1815: colonel Blot

  • 1816: colonel Oudinot
  • 1822: colonel de Merssemann
  • 1829: colonel de Louvencourt
  • 1830: colonel Richard
  • 1832: colonel de Brack
  • 1838: colonel de Lesparda
  • 1841: colonel Dormoy
  • 1850: colonel Gallais
  • 1855: colonel Simon of Mortière
  • 1864: colonel Choury of Vigerie
  • 1871: colonel Cousin of Montauban
  • 1875: colonel Bauvieux
  • 1880: colonel de Poul
  • 1886: colonel Colinet de Labeau
  • 1888: colonel Gaudin
  • 1895: colonel Moine of Margon
  • 1900: colonel of the Horn of Duprat
  • 1908: colonel Renaud

Old Mode

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

5th then 4th Hussards is affected with the Armée with the Center.

In 1793 and 1794, it is with the armed with North.

The May 11th 1794, the future Marshal of France, Gerard, then second lieutenant, removes a Obusier and a convoy with the enemy. At that time, engagements are rare.

Of 1794 with 1797, the regiment is with the Armée with Sambre-and-Meuse, combatant under the imperturbable glance of Saint-Just which signs itself the setting in retirement of lieutenant Jacques Helaïssen, the 5 messidor year 2, with the Bridge.

  • June 26th 1794: battles of Fleurus
  • combat with Langenheim
  • 1796: Blockade of Mainz
  • 1797: passage of the Rhine with Neuweed; lieutenant Devaillant, with the head of 30 hussards, captures an Austrian battalion

In 1798 the regiment is with the Armée with Mainz and in 1799 with the armed with the Danube.

In 1800 it passes to the Armée with the Rhine

In 1804, 4th receives four eagles and standards of the Challiot model. In 1805, the regiment, which have 637 men, fact part of the brigade Picard, division Kellermann, 1st army corps of the marshal Bernadotte of the Large army.

In 1806 and 1807:

  • Battle of Schleiz
  • Battle of Iéna
  • Battle of Lubeck
  • Battle of Liebstadt
  • Battle of Mohrungen.

At that time, the old ones of the Revolution yield their place to young recruits. The September 27th 1808, 4th receives two gold crowns of the town of Paris and share for the army of Spain. There, it fights until in 1813:

  • Bataille of Alcanitz
  • Bataille of Belchite
  • Bataille of Stella
  • Bataille of Chiclana
  • Siège of Sagonte
  • Bataille of Tecla
  • passes from Ordal.

In 1812, an eagle remains in service, the others are returned the March 19th. The standard of the regiment is model 1812 with the mentions: AUSTERLITZ IENA FRIEDLAND .

In 1813, the regiment passes to the 3rd body of cavalry of the Large army.

In 1814, it belongs to the 6th body of cavalry to the army of Lyon under the command of Augereau with the 10th squadron of the 4th Guard of honor (imperial Garde). As of the January 10th, the first scuffles between the French and Austrian troops take place in the north of Borough. The 11, the Austrians are seized again and counter-attacks close to the carronière of Shawls. The keen resistance of the French obliges them to make come 6 pieces of artillery which push the French to be ebbed in good order with Meximieux. The 4th hussard combat with Lons-the-Salt maker, Trawl-nets, with Mâcon the March 17th where, under the orders of the general Pannetier of Pont-de-Vaux, it is distinguished by charging four battalions and four enemy squadrons with Lage-Longeart. Then the 20, it is the Bataille of Limonest, then it is abdication.

At the time of the 1st Restoration, much of riders of 4th return on their premises. Some remain with the regiment and agree to serve the king.

As of the return of Napoleon in France, engagements in 4th are numerous in the Rhone-alpine departments; 4th is quartered with Vienna. Young people and war veterans preferring the uniform and the prestige of 4th with the sordid departmental Council nomination of examination.

Gathered in Vienna, 4th receives an eagle and a standard model 1815, after having burned its white standard of royal regiment coldly blessed on the square of the church of Vienna to the advertisement of the return of Napoleon, then joined the Large army. He fights with:

Colonels killed or wounded by ordering the regiment for this period

Officers wounded or killed while being used with 4th as hussards between 1808 and 1814:

killed Officers: XX
dead Officers their wounds: XX
wounded officers: XX

From 1815 to 1848

The regiment is gathered with Orleans, the eagle and the standard of 4th is destroyed with Bourges.

Second Republic

Second Empire

  • the 4th regiment of hussards is in garrison with Phalsbourg (57) in 1870.

From 1871 to 1914

First World War

Inter-war period

Second world war

From 1945 to our days

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

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

Currency and uniforms

Uniforms of Old Mode

Uniforms under the Revolution and the First Empire

Decorations

  • Military Cross 1914-1918 , with quotation with the order of the 4th Division of Cavalry - order n° 6 of September 14th, 1914, signed by the Abonneau general.

  • Military Cross 1939-1945 , with mention in dispatches - order n° 211C of September 2nd, 1940, signed by the general Weygand

See too

Internal bonds

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

Sources and bibliography

  • historical

    CHADUC (captain), of the 4th regiment of hussards - Not of impression of 4th Hussards, Laon, 1983

  • " the 4th regiment of hussards" , The Roadmap n° February 2nd, th and th 2002.
  • ANDOLENKO (general), Collection of history of the armor-plated weapon and the cavalry , Paris, Historical Eurimprim, 1968.
  • of the French Army corps of troop , Ministry for the War, Paris, 1900

External bonds

  • group of reconstitution 4 {{E}} hussards

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