5th regiment of hussards

Origin

The 5th regiment of hussards is the heir to the 2nd Legion of the foreign volunteers of the navy or legion of the foreign volunteers of Lauzun , unit created on March 5th, 1780 which took share with the Guerre of Independence of the United States of 1780 to 1783. This mixed unit (1 company of pomegranate S, 1 company of hunter S, 2 squadrons of hussard S, 1 company of gunner S) unloaded with Newport (Rhode Island) in July 1780 and spent the winter to Lebanon (Connecticut).

The Legion of Lauzun was illustrated during the Siège of Yorktown, mainly in front of Gloucester on October 3rd, 1781 when the hussards of the Legion of Lauzun drove out battle field the British cavalry of colonel Tarleton. The Legion of Lauzun remained in the United States initially with Hampton (Virginia), then in February 1782 with Charlotte Court House (Virginia), before moving in July 1782 towards New York. The Legion left the in May 1783 United States.

The regiment of the hussards of Lauzun, n° 6 of the weapon, is officially created on September 14th, 1783 with Hennebont (Morbihan), with the return of the Legion of Lauzun of the United States.

Its colonel owner was Armand Louis de Gontaut-Biron, duke of Lauzun , the ordering colonel was then the count Robert Dillon.

Colonel s/chef-of-brigade

• 1783 : Armand Louis de Gontaut-Biron, duke of Lauzun, Mestre of camp owner

• 1783: count de Dillon (Mestre of ordering camp)
• 1784: count de Pestalozzi (Mestre of ordering camp)
• February 1792: colonel Antoine Marie Paris d' Illins (**)
• July 1792: colonel marquis Emmanuel de Grouchy (**) Marshal of France in 1815
• September 1792: Charles Edouard Jennings de Kilmaine (**)
• April 1793: colonel marquis Adélaïde Blaise the Hare of the Barn
• October 28th, 1793: chief of brigade François Ruin
• March 5th, 1794: chief of brigade Engelbert Scholtenius
• September 3rd, 1799: chief of brigade baron François-Xavier de Schwarz (*)
• December 30th, 1806: colonel baron Pierre César Dery (or of Héry) (*)
• September 21st, 1809: colonel baron Charles-Claude Meuziau (*)
• May 16th, 1813: colonel baron Nicolas François Alphonse Fournier
• October 8th, 1814: colonel baron Jean Baptist Liègeard
• December 12th, 1815: colonel count Boniface de Castellane (**) Marshal of France in 1852
• September 11th, 1822: colonel Marie François Joseph de Müller
• October 29th, 1828: colonel count Augustin Stanislas Philippe of Montiers de Mérinville
• September 15th, 1830: colonel baron Georges Charles Benjamin Klein de Kleinenberg
• December 11th, 1840: colonel Pierre Gaspard Clère
• April 22nd, 1847: colonel Armand-Octave-Marie d' Allonville (**)
• November 3rd, 1851: colonel Charles Louis Alexis Joseph Raguet de Brancion (*)
• December 24th, 1858: colonel Auguste Alfred count de Montaigu (**)
• August 14th, 1860: colonel count Antoine Jean Jacques Eugene Paulze d' Ivoy of Poype (**)
• February 27th, 1869: colonel Victor Flogny (*)
• April 26th, 1871: colonel Felix Eugene Letourneur
• September 7th, 1873: colonel marquis Armand Alexandre Emmanuel d' Hautefort (*)
• October 3rd, 1881: colonel Marie Ludovic Alliot
• December 20th, 1883: colonel Jean-Baptiste Derigny
• May 11th, 1888: colonel count Florimond Rene de Briey
• 1891-1897: colonel François César Ernest Roy de Vaquières
• 1897-1905: colonel de Maistre
• 1905-1907: colonel of Garreau of Mechenie
• 1907-1911: colonel Emile Taufflieb, general ordering the 37e CA in 1916, senator of the Low-Rhine of 1920 to 1927
• August 1911: colonel de Boutaud de Lavilléon (*)
• October 12th, 1914: lieutenant-colonel of France (*)
• February 20th, 1916: lieutenant-colonel Teillard de Rancilhac de Chazelles
• 1918-1921: colonel Boscals de Reals

• April 1st, 1951: colonel Louis Bernard
• 1953-1956: lieutenant-colonel Ernest Gaudet
• 1956-1958: lieutenant-colonel Georges Boxwood (**)
• 1958-1961: lieutenant-colonel Spangenberger
• 1961-1963: lieutenant-colonel Geoffroy de Tourville de Buzonnière (*)
• 1963-1965: lieutenant-colonel Rene Regnault de Savigny de Moncorps (*)
• 1965-1967: lieutenant-colonel Theodore de Fallois (*)
• 1967-1969: lieutenant-colonel Jean Perrin (**)
• 1969-1971: lieutenant-colonel Donatien Gouraud
• 1971-1973: lieutenant-colonel Vacherot
• 1973-1975: lieutenant-colonel Andre Thiéron de Monclin
• 1975-1976: lieutenant-colonel Albert Royer

• 1980-1984: colonel Guy Simon
• 1984-1986: colonel Jacques Gagniard

From 1986 to 1992, colonel Henry Brunet of Evry ensures coordination, the instruction and the maintenance of the traditions of the squadrons of 5th Hussards entrusted to the various RIAD

(*) Officer who became thereafter Brigadier general. (**) Officer who became thereafter Major general.

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 5th RH

Old Mode

• 1783 : garrison with Hennebont
• 1783: garrison with Lauterbourg (current Low department the Rhine)
• 1789: garrison with Verdun
• 1790: garrison with Toul, then Belfort and Vitry-le-François
• 1791: garrison with Saint-Avold
• 1793: garrison with Givet
• 1794: garrison with Hesdin, deposit with Saint-Mihiel, Châlons-in-Champagne then Rheims
• 1796: deposit with Leyde (Netherlands)
• 1797: deposit with Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• 1798: garrison with Cliff then Rennes
• 1798: deposit with Lauterbourg, then with Wissembourg and Pram
• 1799: deposit with Pont-à-Mousson

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

Colonels killed or wounded by ordering the regiment :

• colonel Déry, wounded with the combat of Piessing (Austria), on April 19th, 1809
• colonel Meuziau, wounded with the battle of Moskowa, on September 7th, 1812
• colonel Meuziau, wounded with the combat of Winkowo, on October 18th, 1812

Officers killed while being used for 5th between 1790 and 1815 :

• killed Officers: 20

• dead Officers their wounds: 14
• officers captive or killed with the enemy: 5

Died with the combat of 5th Hussards of 1790 to 1815 (officers, warrant officers and hussards)

• dead: 148

• died of the continuations of their wounds: 97
• captive or killed with the enemy: 63
• captive: 423
• wounded: 563
• "égarés" in Russia (1812): 565
• "égarés" in Germany (1813): 276

A maconnic cabin with the regiment of the hussards of Lauzun

The regiment of Lauzun has creates in April 1789, whereas it was in garrison of Verdun, a maconnic cabin within the regiment. The request was recorded near the Grand the East of France under the name of cabin of the Eternal Friendship, with the East of Lauzun . There were on the whole 23 officers, the surgeon, the chaplain and 8 civilians who took part in work of this cabin between 1789 and 1790: 49% of the officers (by taking of to account the surgeon and the chaplain) were masons.

The repression of a mutiny with Nancy - August 1790

A detachment of the regiment is sent to Mantes, then with Marly in July 1789. The August 31st 1790, two squadrons of the regiment, then confined with Toul, take part in the repression of the mutiny of Nancy: on a manpower of 200 men, the hussards of Lauzun have 2 killed officers and 5 wounded, 13 killed hussards and 26 wounded and 62 killed or wounded horses, in the load carried out in the streets of Nancy.

The incident of Belfort - October 21st, 1790

The regiment moved towards Belfort is implied with the Régiment Royal-Inhabitant of Li2ege the October 21st 1790 in hostile demonstrations with the constituent Assembly: the regiment is moved in urgency towards Vitry-le-François. A decree of the National Assembly of the October 30th 1790 is taken for the arrest and the setting in judgment of the authors of the disorders and excess made in the town of Belfort by the regiments of Royal Inhabitant of Li2ege and of the hussards of Lauzun . Colonel de Pestalozzi, Mestre of camp of the regiment , is shut down. After a declaration of repentance and devotion expressed by 12 officers to the National Assembly, a decree of the January 20th 1791 raises the restrictions of service imposed on the regiments of Royal Inhabitant of Li2ege and the hussards of Lauzun.

The business of Varennes - June 21st 1791

Several detachments of the regiment are implied in the military device set up on the road borrowed by the king Louis XVI and his family at the time of their attempt at escape towards Montmédy: a detachment of 40 hussards with Bridge-of-Nap-Vesle under the orders of the Boudet second lieutenant, 60 hussards with Varennes ordered by the Röhrig second lieutenant and 100 hussards with Dun under the orders of the major Deslon. Three officers are obliged to emigrate after the failure of this operation as of the June 22nd 1791.

Campaigns of 1792 and 1793

Stationed with Saint-Avold at the end of 1791, with detachments in Burgundy, the 6 {{E}} Hussards, above Lauzun is ordered since February 1792 by colonel Paris d' Illins. At the beginning of the war against Austria, the regiment, ordered by the colonel Emmanuel de Grouchy, is gathered with Metz to form before guard of the Armée with the Center ordered by the general Fayette. The failure of the offensive in Belgium and the Prussian Champagne threat involve the transfer of the 6th hussards to the Armée with North, ordered by the general Dumouriez. The capitulation of Longwy (August 23rd 1792) delivers to the enemy the deposit of the regiment, its files and its case. Weakened by the emigration, the regiment ordered by Jennings de Kilmaine takes part successfully in the operations of the Bataille of Valmy, Jemmapes (November 6th 1792) and to the Siège of Namur.

In June 1793, the 4 {{E}} regiment of hussards, ex-regiment of Saxony, having completely passed with the enemy with the general Dumouriez, the 5 {{E}} regiment of hussards, ex-Colonel-general takes number 4 and the 6th regiment of hussards takes number 5 definitively.

Colonel de Kilmaine is replaced by the colonel of the Barn. The regiment stations with Givet, Valencian Maubeuge and . As from May, two squadrons of the 5th regiment of hussards pass to the Armée with the Ardennes where they take part in minor operations; 2 squadrons remain with the Armée with North. The regiment is gathered during August 1793.

Under the orders of the general Houchard, the 5th hussards combat the Dutch army with Werwik (September 13rd) and with Menin (12 & September 13rd); under the orders of the general Jourdan, the regiment takes part in the operations of Wattignies (October 16th 1793). The colonel of the Barn is replaced by the chief of brigade François Ruin.

The November 10th 1793, the 5th hussards is committed successfully against the regiment of hussards Austrian n°1 Kaiser Franz: the colonel baron Pàl von Blascovisch and 50 hussards are captured.

The countryside of 1794 and the conquest of the Netherlands in 1795

5th Hussards belonged to the army of North, ordered by the general Pichegru. The 5th hussards hustles a regiment of dragon S hessois, in the operations of the 18 and April 19th 1794 with Abscon, capture the colonel, of many officers and 120 assembled dragons. The April 24th, with Villers-in-Cauchies and the April 26th, in Troisville, the East of Cambric, the French troops are strongly hustled by the britanno-Austrian cavalry of the génral von Otto: the 5th hussards in these two occasions protects the retirement from the French troops but loses 34 hussards, including 6 killed, 11 wounded and 17 hussards left on the ground, prisoners or killed. A detachment of the regiment was detached with the Army of Sambre and Meuse which took part in the catch of Charleroi and the battle of Fleurus (June 16th 1794). The junction of the Armed with North and Sambre and Meuse was done in front of Brussels. and 5th Hussards was engaged with Templeuve, Wervick, Menin and the head office of Courtrai. The continuation of the English army of the duke of York brought 5th Hussards on the border of the Netherlands. The July 7th 1794, 5th Hussards attacked with greatest energy the regiment of Dutch dragons Van Bylandt, put it in escape and made him many prisoners. Again engaged at Boxtel, the September 14th, against the regiment of the hussards of Homspech, it put it in escape. The October 19th, in Druten, the English troops confused the uniforms of 5th Hussards known as " Patriotic Lauzun " with those of the Hussards de Rohan, unit of French emigrants: the English brigade of the Fox general was severely hustled and the 9 {{E}} Hussards off captured the flag of the 1st battalion of the 37th Regiment Foot. 5th Hussards was engaged in the operations of the head office of Nimègue and took its winter quarters in Venlo and the area of Clèves.

In January 1795, the cold Rhine was crossed by the army of the general Pichegru. 5th Hussards enters Utrecht, Amsterdam, $the Hague and castle of Loos with Apeeldoorn. It is several times engaged against the regiments of the Hussards de Hompesch or Salm-Kirburg. The peace of Basle (April 5th 1795) puts a term at the 1st Coalition. 5th Hussards stations in Deventer, Amsterdam and $the Hague.

From 1815 to 1848

Second Republic

Second Empire

From 1871 to 1914

First World War

5th Hussards in garrison in Nancy (Donop district) is the regiment of recognition of the 20th 2nd Army Corps (general Foch) (general Edouard de Castelnau). It is composed in August 1914, of 4 active squadrons, a section of machine-guns and sets up 2 squadrons of reserve:

Chief of police: colonel Boutaud de Lavilléon

second in command : lieutenant-colonel Maxime Weygand

1st half-regiment : major of France

• 1st squadron, captain of Mesmay
• 2nd squadron, captain of Ligniville

• 3rd squadron, captain Jory
• 4th squadron, captain Breymann

• 5th squadron, captain Albert-Roulhac
• 6th squadron, captain of Huart

1914

As of on July 30th, 1914, colonel de Lavilléon places the regiment in state of alert. August 1st, 5th Hussards leaves the Donop district to confine in Pulnoy.

August 4th, before even the notification of the state of war between France and Allemange, the sergeant Perez is killed in a meeting with a German patrol. The squadrons are very quickly engaged in Lorraine in direction of Castle-Saline Morhange and . August 11th, the 4th squadron is strongly engaged in Clémery against a squadron of light horsemen bavavois. After the battle of Mohrange, the regiment ensures the protection of the retirement of the French Army, before being again committed in the north of Luneville, then as of on September 13rd in the north of Toul, towards the Régneville-in-Hague, Thiaucourt.

September 20th, 5th Hussards is embarked in the train to unload on September 22nd to 15 km of Amiens in Picardy to be immediately committed towards Cappy, Eclusiers, Bray-on-Nap, where the regiment will gain under the XXe body, a mention in dispatches.

In October, 5th Hussards passes under the orders of the Conneau general - the general Louis Conneau, born in 1856, who was high with Tileries with Prince Impérial and remained to fine his companion and his most intimate friend - 1st body of cavalry and takes part until January 1915 in the Course with the sea. It is engaged with Messines, Nailleul, on Yser.

1915

In the trenches with Steenstraat (Belgium), the detachments of 5th Hussards are hard bombarded on January 4th, 1915 and lose 46 killed and 27 wounded. the regiment remains in Flanders until April 1915.

Carried by stages to the valley of Canche to take part in the offensive in Artois. Detachments and officers are present in the trenches, but the regiment is not committed.

The regiment is embarked for Lorraine and stations from July 15th to August 31st with Luneville. Mid-September, the XXe Body is transported in Champagne. September 25th, 1915, 5th Hussards is engaged on the fort of Beauséjour, in the sector of the Hillock of Mesnil-House-of-Champagne. The 3rd squadron (captain of Moutis) and the 4th squadron (Florange captain) under the orders of the major of Lavigerie charge on the German trenches, capture 600 prisoners, 2 machine-guns and allow the resumption of the progression of 160e IH, at the price of the loss of 17 killed (of which the wounded lieutenant Camion), 42 and 140 horses. 3rd and 4th squadrons will receive a mention in dispatches.

After 3 months spent to organize the ground conquered out of Champagne, the regiment is moved in the area of Nancy.

1916

With the release of the offensive on Verdun, 5th Hussards ensures the regularity of circulation on the roads in the zone of IIe Armée, before being committed in the sector of Avocourt, coast 304, the Death-Man.

In preparation for the offensive on the Somme, 5th Hussards is moved in April 1916 with Crèvecoeur. A detachment with foot is set up between Curlu and Frise (in the marshy area which the Sum borders) which is engaged from June 26th to July 12th: it loses the captains of Huart and Mettrie, lieutenant Albessard and 4 hussards. After one period of rest between Dieppe and Tréport, 5th Hussards turns over on the Sum from November 15th to December 15th, 1916.

The new organization of December 29th, 1916, involves the dissolution of 5th and 6th squadron.

• the colonel and the EM at the disposal of the general ordering the army corps
• the 1e squadron and the section of machine-guns are assigned to the 11th D.I
• the 2nd squadron is affected with 39e D.I
• the 3rd squadron is affected with 153e D.I
• the 4th squadron is affected with 168e D.I

Inter-war period

Like very many regiments of cavalry, the 5th regiment of hussards is dissolved on April 1st, 1921 with the Rebéval district in Neufchâteau (the Vosges): this city has a street of the at present 5th regiment of Hussards . Its elements are distributed with the profit of:

5 {{E}} regiment of dragons (Pram),

7 {{E}} regiment of dragons (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer),

18 {{E}} regiment of dragons (Trier),

19 {{E}} regiment of dragons (Bonn),

21 {{E}} regiment of dragons (Pram),

22 {{E}} regiment of dragons (Pontoise),

23 {{E}} regiment of dragons ( Meaux),

29 {{E}} regiment of dragons (Layered branches)

5 {{E}} regiment of hunters (Senlis),

7 {{E}} regiment of hunters (Evreux),

14 {{E}} regiment of hunters (Wiesbaden)

2 {{E}} regiment of hussards (Versailles),

7 {{E}} regiment of hussards (Angers)

8 {{E}} regiment of genius (Turns)

the military special School of Saint-Cyr military school.

The Group Iéna , association friendly of the former servicemen of 5th Hussards takes care of the maintenances of the traditions of the regiment.

• In 1932, following a ministerial decision of 1929, signed by the Minister for the war Painlevé, the 2nd squadron of the 8 {{E}} regiment of dragons (Lunéville) becomes the squadron of tradition of the 5th regiment of hussards. The standard of 5th Hussards is entrusted to the guard of the 8th regiment of dragons, then installed with the district Barollière .

Second world war

With the mobilization in September 1939, the 8th Dragons forms with the 31 {{E}} Dragons, the 4th brigade of cavalry, integrated into the 2 {{E}} Division of cavalry.

The 2nd squadron is strongly engaged in the combat of the May 16th and 17th 1940, with St Gerard and Bois the Abbot, on the Dining side of . All the officers are killed with the combat, except the lieutenant of Benoit (death in 1943) and under lieutenant Branet, prisoner. Under lieutenant Branet had been the last one carries standard of 5th Hussards in 1939.

Prisoner in Oflag II D, it escapes with the lieutenant Alain de Boissieu and under lieutenant Klein while passing to Soviet Union in the 28- March 29th, 1941 night. After being remained 5 months captive in the USSR, there can join the United Kingdom. Engaged in the F.F.L, it creates its own initiative a squadron of cavalry which it will lead in Tripolitaine, via the Cape and Cairo. This unit will be finally integrated in the 501 {{E}} tank regiment of Combat in 1943.

At the request of the Branet captain, this squadron, become 3rd Company of the 501e tank regiment of combat , will take the traditions of 5th Hussards (confirmed by the decision n° 955/EMP-CH of February 22nd, 1944 signed by the Giraud general, in Algiers). In a mail of June 28th, 1951, the major Branet specified: … on February 22nd, 1944, the 3rd Company of 501e R.C.C accepted a special flag whose face is blue hussard embroidered of an effigy of St Georges embanking the dragon .

The Branet general, companion of the release, are deceased in 1969

From 1945 to our days

• April 1st 1951 reconstitution with Coblentz (Dejean district) of 5th Hussards under the orders of the colonel Louis BERNARD. The regiment is equipped with M24 Chaffee

• in garrison with Fritzlar as from August 1951: the regiment was re-equipped thereafter of AMX-13
• 1956, displacement on the garrison of Weingarten (Galliffet district) and until 1967 a squadron with Ravensburg (Margueritte district): the regiment is re-equipped of RBE.
• 1976, 5th Hussards, moved with Stetten, re-equipped AMX30, becomes the 3rd regiment of dragons.
• March 1st 1980, 5th Hussards is recreated with LAON, department of Aisne (district Thérémin d' Hame), like regiment of recognition of the 108e division of infantry: the 4th regiment of hussards is its regiment support.
• 1984: with the dissolution of the 4th regiment of hussards, the 2nd Dragons becomes the regiment support of 5th Hussards. Displacement on the basis of LAON-COUVRON (02)
• January 1st, 1986: the 3 squadrons of 5th Hussards, equipped with AML, are placed at the disposal of the 3 Regiments Inter-Arm Divisional (RIAD) with the 1st Military region, 54e RIAD (8th IH of Soissons), 239e RIAD (39e IH of Rouen) and 243e RIAD (43e IH of Lille): the instruction of the 3 squadrons and the standard remain entrusted to the 2nd Dragons of LAON-COUVRON
• December 31st 1992 final dissolution.

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

battles registered on the various standards of the regiment of 1812 to our days

• Valmy 1792

• Austerlitz 1805
• Iéna 1806 - for the participation of the regiment in the countryside of 1806, 5th Hussards not being present at the battle of Iéna.
• Eylau 1807 - for the participation of the regiment in the countryside of 1807, 5th Hussards was not engaged during the battle of Eylau.
• Eckmühl 1809
• Wagram 1809
• Moskowa 1812
• Hanau 1813
• Solférino 1859
• Puebla 1863
• Lorraine 1914
• Champagne 1915
• the Marne 1918

Weapons of honor allotted to members of 5th Hussards

• BION Nicolas, hussard, a rifle of honor to have captured the general Feld Marschalleutnant count von Sporck and his aide-de-camp on June 5th, 1800 - member of the legion of honor of right

• CRABBE Jean-louis, captain, a saber of honor for the same action as hussard BION - member of the legion of honor of right
• EPINGER Nicolas, second lieutenant, a saber of honor, to have captured 6 officers of Uhlans, on December 19th, 1800. member of the legion of honor of right, Officer of the Legion of Honor as of on June 14th, 1804.
• JOJOT Jean Baptist, hussards, a snap hook of honor, for action of écalt on June 4th, 1797 - member of the legion of honor of right
• LEVENBRUCK (or LOEVENBRUCK) Jean Pierre, a snap hook of honor, to have captured prince Maurice of Liechtenstein, colonel of the 2nd regiment of Uhlans, on December 19th, 1800 - member of the legion of honor of right
• PERRAULT Jacques, hussards, a snap hook of honor, to have captured with 2 comrades 100 Austrian prisoners, on May 5th, 1800 - it is also quoted to have captured a piece of artillery and a flag with the battle of Hohenlinden - member of legion of honor of right
• SEGUIN Jean, hussard, a snap hook of honor, for two brilliant deeds - member of the legion of honor of right
• WAGNER , Antoine, sergeant, a rifle of honor, to have captured a part of gun, on December 19th, 1800 - member of the legion of honor of right

Currency

• the regiment has as a currency, that of the family of Gontaut-Biron " Perishes sed in armis " (he dies the weapons with the hand)

• the official festival of the regiment is on June 24th, in remembering the battle of Solférino
• the song of tradition of the regiment is " Eugenie " in remembering the countryside of Mexico

Decorations

• 5th Hussards is titular Gold medal of the town of Milan, given to the regiment in 1909 for the fiftieth birthday of the Bataille of Solferino.
• the standard relates to its tie the Military Cross 1914-1918 with a palm (mention in dispatches under the 20th army corps - order of September 29th, 1914, II {{E}} Armée)
• the 3rd squadron was quoted with the order of the army , on October 21st, 1915, with the title of IIe Armée and the order with division on January 18th, 1919, with the title of the 153 {{E}} division.
• the 4th squadron was quoted with the order of the army , on October 21st, 1915, with the title of IIe Armée (at the same time as the 3rd squadron).
• the 2nd squadron was quoted with the order of the army , on June 9th, 1918, with the title of the VI {{E}} Armée and with the order with the army corps on September 1st, 1918, under the 38 {{E}} army corps.
• the 1st squadron was quoted with the order of the army , on May 30th, 1919, with the title of the III {{E}} Armée.

See too

Internal bonds

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

External bonds

Friendly Franco-German of the Garrison of Weingarten http://www.5emeregimentdehussards-weingarten.fr/

Sources and bibliography

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