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
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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
Chiefs of police
Old mode
Wars of the Revolution and the Empire
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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
- 1793: Nerwinden, Hondschoote, and Wattignies
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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