7th regiment of cuirassiers

The 7th Régiment of Cuirassier S is a French regiment created in 1659 starting from various foreign regiments with the service of France.

Creation and various denominations

  • 1657 : lifting of a regiment of cavalry by the count de Roye

  • 1659: creation of the regiment Royal-Foreigner by the amalgam of various regiment foreigners to the service of France and the Regiment of the count de Roye
  • 1791: the regiment takes the name of ''' 7 {{E}} Régiment of Cavalry '''
  • 1803: 7th Regiment of Cuirassiers
  • 1815 becomes the : dissolution after the Hundred days
  • 1825: recreate by transformation of the 7th regiment of dragons
  • 1919: dissolution at the end of the 1 World war
  • 1940: 7th regiment of Cuirassiers and dissolution after the Countryside of France
  • 1945: 7th regiment of Cuirassiers
  • 1962: dissolution

Standard

  • Valmy, 1792

  • Essling, 1809
  • Bérezina, 1812
  • Dresden, 1813
  • the Yser, 1914
  • Flandres, 1914-18

Chiefs of police

Old mode

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

  • 1791: Pierre Louis Auguste De Villoutreys de Faye - Colonel

  • 1793: Mathurin Gondaud - Chief-of-Brigade
  • 1802 - 1805: François-Joseph Offenstein - Chief of Brigade, then Colonel as from 1803 (*)
  • 1807: Jacques Charles Dubois - Colonel (*)
  • 1812: Michel Ordener - Colonel
  • 1813: Claude François Richardot - Colonel

(*) Officers having reached thereafter the row of brigadier general.

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 7th Cuirassier

Old mode

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

1792: Valmy
1793: Nerwinden, Hondschoote, and Wattignies
1794: Roer
1800: Hochstett
1805: Tagliamento
1807: Heilsberg
1809: Essling and Wagram
1812: Polotsk and Beresina
1813: Reichenbach and Dresden
1814: Champaubert and Vauchamps
1815: Ligny and Waterloo

Restoration

1848 - 1871

1871 - 1914

In garrison with Lyon in 1907, Boundary-line (Oise) in 1955.

First World War

Between two wars

Second world war

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