9th regiment of hunters with horse

The 9th regiment of hunters with horse is a regiment of cavalry French created in the 1757 and dissolved on January 21st, 1994.

Creation and various denominations

1757 : Formation of a Regiment of Volunteers of Hainaut
1762: Becomes the Légion of Hainaut
1768: Becomes Légion of Lorraine
1776: To lay off
1779: Reformed as a 9th Regiment of Hunters with Horse
1788: Famous Regiment of Hunters of Lorraine
1791: Famous ''' 9 {{E}} Regiment of Hunters '''
1815: Dissolved
1816: Reformed as a ''' Regiment of the Hunters of the Dordogne '''
1966: Reappears as Régiment of reserve
June 4th, 1971: Receives the Standard of the ''' 9 {{E}} Régiment of Hunters of Africa '''
January 21st, 1994: Dissolved

Colonels/chief of brigade

1791 : Jacques-Marie Controls of Baroliere - Colonel (**)
1793: Jerome-Etienne-Marie Richardot - Colonel (*)
1793: Jacques-Hyacinthe the White one - Colonel
1793: François Doncourt - Chief-of-Brigade
1793: Jean-Fraçois Allard - Chief-of-Brigade
1796: Paul-Angel-Louis Gardane - Chief-of-Brigade (*)
1799: François-Augustin Liebault - Chief-of-Brigade
1799: Jean-Pierre Thullier - Chief-of-Brigade (becomes Colonel in 1803)
1808: Charles-Henri Delacroix - Colonel
1809: Pierre-Antoine Bruneteau de Saint-Suzanne - Colonel
1813: Eugene-François d' Avranges Dukermont - Colonel

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

Killed or wounded colonels whereas it ordered the 9th Hunters:

November 13rd, 1795: chief of Allard brigade, killed
March 26th, 1799: chief of Gardane brigade, wounded
November 6th, 1799: chief of Liebault brigade, mortally wounded
May 8th, 1809: colonel Delacroix, wounded
January 1813: colonel of Holy-Suzanne, died of tiredness
August 23rd, 1813: colonel Dukermont, wounded

Killed and wounded officers whereas they were used for the 9th Hunters with horse during the period (1805-1815):

killed Officers: 10

Officers dead of the continuations of their wounds: 3

wounded Officers: 53

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 9th Hunters with horse

Wars of the Revolution

1792 : Aumetz
1793 : Pirmasens
1794 : Kaiserslautern, Fleurus, and Roer
1795: Anelshorn and Limbourg
1796: Siegberg, Altenkirchen, Weilbourg, Ukerath, Wildendorf, Friedberg, and Forcheim
1797: Neuwied and Frankfurt
1799: Legnano, Verone, Cassano, Bassignano, and Novi
1800: Marengo, Alexandria, and Saint-Ambroise
1806: Saint-Euphemie
1807: Montelone
1808 : Reggio, Messine, and Scilla
1809: Brenta, Piave, Saint-Michel, Leoben, Raab, and Wagram
1810: Calabres
1812 : Moskowa and Wiasma
1813: Lützen, Bautzen, Dresden, Lowenberg, Golberg, Leipzig, and Hanau
1814: Champaubert, Castle-Thierry, Brienne, Montmirail, Sezanne, Rheims, Ferté, Montereau, Melun, and Paris
1815: Ligny and Waterloo

France is threatened of any share. 9th fights with the Armée with the Moselle in Belgium. It takes part in the victory of Fleurus where it removes with the enemy 3 parts of gun and fact Croatian prisoners 300 . In 1797, with Neuwied, the 9th watch the greatest value under the chief of Gardane brigade. The Thuillier captain charges a regiment with cuirassiers and removes 150 horses to him. The 9th combat then in Italy in the army of the general Bonaparte. With Vérone, in 1799 Moreau load with the head of the regiment. With the Bataille of Novi the chief of Liébault brigade is killed by charging the Russians.

After Wagram, in 1809 where the regiment provides superb loads it belongs to the Large army opposed to the 100 000 men of the two emperors of Austria and Russia.

From 1815 with the 1st World war

In 1823, it takes share in the countryside of Spain. With the combat of Lograno the sergeant Dorado makes captive the general Don Juan Sanchez. He will become again 9th of hunters with horse in 1825.

From 1839 to 1846, the regiment carries out its first countryside on the Algerian ground. It belongs to the Gery column on Saida and Brizina where it is announced particularly against the Ouled-Sidi-Sheik.

Again, in Algeria of 1868 to 1870 it takes part in the repression of the insurrection with the Cerez column with Laghouat.

After a rapid return on France at the time of the Franco-German Guerre of 1870 where it is employed with the defense of Paris it returns to Algeria in 1871. 11 still fights under Cerez with the combat of Guer El Drah.

Then in 1881 it takes share with forwarding in Tunisia and that of Oran definitively to return to France in 1883.

9th overlapped thus more than ten years on the ground of North Africa and fought very often beside his/her brothers in arms the hunters of Africa. It is the regiment of hunters with horse which remained longest in Algeria.

First World War

Second world war

the 9th Regiment of Hunters of Africa was created on July 1st, 1941 with Mascara by the meeting of 5th and 6th squadrons of the ''' 3 {{E}} ''' and ''' 5 {{E}} Régiments of Hunters of Africa '''.
It receives on September 23rd, 1941, the guard of the standard of the 9th Regiment of Hunters with Horse.
Of November 1942 in March 1943, it takes part in the countryside of Tunisia against the German Army. It takes share with the battles of Pichon, Kef El Amar and Fondouk-El-Okbi.
In June 1943 re-equipped the very first one with American material (tank Destroyer). The 9th Regiment of Hunters of Africa becomes the regiment of tank destroyers of the 1 {{Re}} Armor-plated Division of the 1 {{Re}} French Army.
on August 16th, 1944, the first elements of the regiment unloaded with Holy-Maxime.

They were distinguished with Aubagne and took part in the investment of Marseilles and the release of Villefranche-sur-Saône. During these engagements, the 2nd squadron seizes an armoured train and makes 300 prisoners. This same armoured train was used thereafter to turn the Battle of the rail .

In October 44 all the units are committed in the the Vosges then take part in the opening on the Alsace.

They reach the Rhine take Altkirch and Mulhouse and deliver hard combat in the forest of Hardt to Heimsbrun, bridge of Aspach and finally Colmar last great stage of this countryside of France before the crossing of the Rhine.

In April 1945 begins for the regiment the Campagne from Germany with the 1st dB whose mission is to cut the retirement of the German forces of the Black Forest while progressing quickly towards Switzerland.

The regiment passes the the Rhine to Benheim occupies on April 20th Obendorf and the Moser factories and after the crossing of Neckar hustles enemy resistances to Tuttlingen where it seizes the bridge on the the Danube. It still pushes back many attacks to reach on April 22nd Stockach where 2500 Germans went under the relentless pressure of the 9th RCA. It arrives the first on Iller and on April 30th it stops its progression with the foot of the peaks Tyroleans covered with snow. The Armies Nazis capitulate, the war is finished.

War of Algeria 1954 - 1961

Regroupé with Issoudun after the war 9th RC has will remain there only little of time.
It embarks in 1946 for the North Africa where amalgamating with the 9 {{E}} Régiment of Spahis Algerians it will settle with Batna for eight years of peace.
on November 1st, 1954 at 3 o'clock in the morning the district of the 9th RCA is attacked by (the Algerian rebels.

The Audat hunter, sentinel, are killed during its faction.

During following years the terrorist phase is accentuated. 9th receives the mission of seeking and of destroying the rebellious bands; to ensure the maintenance of law and order and the protection of the goods.
on April 1st, 1959 the 9th Regiment of Hunters of Africa becomes the ''' 4 {{E}} Régiment of Hunters of Africa '''.
on November 3rd of the same year the 9th RCA is recreated and constitutes the battalion of the Sector of Pacification of Imckermann of the Oranian Northern Zone.
II is dissolved definitively on October 1st, 1961.

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

9th regiment of hunters

1794 : Fleurus (*)
1809: Wagram (*)
1812: Moskowa (*)
1814: Champaubert (*)
1914: Yser (*)
1918: Oise (*)

Campaigns: Seven Year old war, 1756-63; Army of the Moselle, 1792-94; Army of Sambre and Meuse, 1794-97; Italy, 1799-09; Germany, 1809; Naples, 1810; Russia, 1812; Germany, 1813; France, 1814; Belgium, 1815 Spain, 1823; Algeria, 1840-46; Algeria, 1866-70; France, 1870-71 Tunisia, 1881; South-Oranian, 1881; Great War, 1914-18.

(*) Battle carried to the flag of the regiment

9th Regiment of Hunters of Africa

1944 : France (*)
1945: Stockach (*)

Campaigns: Tunisia, 1942-43; Release, 1944-45; Germany, 1945; Algeria, 1956-61.

(*) Battle carried to the flag of the regiment

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