5th regiment of dragons

The 5th regiment of Dragons (or 5th RD) is a unit of Cavalerie of the French Army , created under the Ancien Mode in 1656. This regiment has a double heritage.

Filiation

  • 1656 : foreign Dragons of the King

  • 1668 : ''' Regiment Colonel-General ''' (formed by déboublement of the foreign Dragons of the King)
  • 1791 : 5th regiment of dragons
  • 1814 : '' Régiment of the dragons of the Dolphin ''' (n°3)
  • 1815 : 5th Regiment of dragons
  • 1816 : Regiment of the dragons of Herault (n°5)
  • 1825 : 5th regiment of dragons
  • 1928 : Dissolved
  • 1929 : Recreate by taking again the traditions of the ''' 6 {{E}} group of hunters cyclists ''' (6th cd.) and of the 5th dragons under the name of 5th battalion of dragons carried
  • 1939 : 5th regiment of dragons carried
  • 1942 : Dissolved
  • 1944 : 5th regiment of dragons
  • 1946 : Dissolved
  • 1948 : 5th regiment of dragons
  • 1951 : Dissolved
  • 1953 : 5th regiment of dragons
  • 1964 : Dissolved immediately recreated with the elements of the 7 {{E}} regiment of hunters of Africa (7th RCA)

Standard

  • Wattignies, 1793

  • Arcole, 1796
  • Austerlitz, 1805
  • Eylau, 1807
  • Ourcq, 1914
  • the Vosges, 1915 (traditions of the 6th group of hunters cyclists)
  • the Marne, 1918
  • the Meuse, 1940
  • Burgundy Resistance, 1944

fodder of the Military Cross 14-18

Campaigns

  • Countryside of Flanders : Senef 1674, Cassel 1677
  • War of the League of Augsburg : sit of Namur, Steenkerque 1692, Nerwinden 1693
  • War of succession of Spain : Whorl 1703, Ramillies 1706, Lorch 1707, Malplaquet 1709
  • War of succession of Austria : Raucoux 1746, Lawfeld 1747
  • War Seven year old , Hastenbeck 1757.
  • Armed with North : Valmy 1792, Nerwinden and Wattignies 1793
  • Armed with the Ardennes and of Sambre-and-Meuse 1794-1795
  • Armed with Italy : Mondovi, Castiglione, Bassano 1796, Casement bolt 1799, Marengo 1800
  • Large army : Wertingen, Austerlitz 1805, Nasielsk 1806, Eylau, Friedland 1807
  • Spain : Almonacid, Ocana 1809, Vitoria 1813
  • Countryside of France : Craonne, Fère-Champagne 1814
  • Countryside of Belgium : Ligny and Waterloo 1815
  • Spain 1823
  • Belgium 1831
  • Armed with the Rhine : Spicheren, Borny, Rezonville, Noisseville, Colombey 1870.

Chiefs of police

general Colonels as from 1668

  • 1668 : Antonin Nompar de Caumont de Puyguilhem, Duke of Lauzun

  • 1669: Nicolas d' Argouges, Marquis de Rannes
  • 1678: Louis-François Duke of Boufflers
  • 1692: Rene de Froulay, Count de Tessé
  • 1703: Antoine de Gramont, Duke of Guiche
  • 1704: François de Franquetot, Duke of Coigny
  • 1734: Jean-Antoine-François de Franquetot, Count de Coigny
  • 1748: François de Franquetot, Duke of Coigny (for the second time, in the place of his/her brother killed in duel)
  • 1754: Marie-Charles-Louis d' Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chevreuse
  • 1771: Marie-François Henri de Franquetot, Duke of Coigny
  • 1783: Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable of Albert, Duke of Luynes

Mestres of camp-commanders and colonels

  • 1671 : Gabriel de Cassagnet, Marquis de Tilladet

  • 1681: Balthazar Phelypeaux, Count de Saint Florentin
  • 1692: NR. of Saint Mars
  • 1694: NR. Moret de Bournonville
  • 1702: Charles Legendre de Berville
  • 1719: NR. of Préval
  • 1727: Jean All Saints' day of Pierre, Marquis de Frémeur
  • 1744: Gédéon Marie Léopold, Marquis de Goyon
  • 1748: Charles Marie Léopold, Count de Dunois
  • 1758: Marie Jean Louis Riquet, Knight of Caraman
  • 1769: Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable of Albert, Duke of Luynes
  • 1771: Jean-Philippe de Franquetot, Knight of Coigny
  • 1780: Jean Jacob, Baron de Coëhorn
  • 1784: Antoine Louis of Vieuville, Marquis de Wignacourt
  • 1786: Hugues Hyacinthe-Timoléon, Duke of Thimble
  • 1788: Pierre Charles, Count de Seuil
  • 1791: Joachim Charton
  • 1792 : Auguste Marie Henri Barb, Marquis de Dampierre
  • 1793: Pierre Joseph Cler, known as Verdet
  • 1796: Jean Baptist Milhaud
  • 1800: Louis Bonaparte
  • 1803: Ythier Sylvain Private
  • 1804: Jacques Nicolas, Baron Lacour
  • 1808: Louis Ernest Joseph, Count de Sparre
  • 1812: Morin
  • 1815 : Canavas de Saint-Amand
  • 1815: Borie de Vintimille
  • 1816: of Calvières
  • 1818: of Hanache
  • 1830: of Lafitte
  • 1833: Koenig
  • 1843 : of Solliers

Sources and bibliographies

  • Historical of the French Army corps of troop (1569-1900) , Ministry for the War, Paris, Shepherd-Levrault, 1900

  • Andolenko (general), Collection of history of the armor-plated weapon and the cavalry , Paris, Eurimprim, 1968
  • Suzane (general), History of the French cavalry , Paris, Dumaine, 1874,3 vol.

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