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Västergötland Horsemen (Veteran) (8 companies) - Colonel Erik Soop (Swedish) Dāmitz Cuirassier Regiment (4 companies) - Colonel Sigfrid von Dāmitz (German) Courland Cuirassier Squadron (4 companies) - Colonel Ernst Dönhoff (Latvian) Livonia Cuirassier Regiment (5 companies) - Lieutenant Colonel Jürgen Aderkas (Estonian)
The Battle of Breitenfeld (German: Schlacht bei Breitenfeld; Swedish: Slaget vid Breitenfeld) or First Battle of Breitenfeld (in older texts sometimes known as Battle of Leipzig), was fought at a crossroads near Breitenfeld approximately 8 km north-west of the walled city of Leipzig on 17 September (Gregorian calendar), or 7 September (Julian calendar, in wide use at the time), 1631.
Silversparre Squadron (Swedish) Sack Squadron (Swedish) Sperreuter Squadron (Swedish) Stålhandske Cuirassier (Finnish) Tesenhaussen (Livonian) Domhoff Squadron (Kurland) Baudissin Cuirassier (German) B. Saxe-Weiver Cuirassier (German) Horn Cuirassier (German) Kotchtitzky Cuirassier (German) Baden Cuirassier (German) Monro of Fowles Cuirassier ...
The armour of a cuirassier was very expensive; in England, in 1629, a cuirassier's equipment cost four pounds and 10 shillings (equivalent to £1,084.487 in 2025) [6], whilst a harquebusier's (a lighter type of cavalry) was a mere one pound and six shillings [7] (equivalent to £313.296 in 2025). [6]
The Second Battle of Breitenfeld was a major engagement of the Thirty Years' War between the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and Ottavio Piccolomini, supported by Saxon troops, and the Swedish Army under Lennart Torstensson.
The small companies of musketeers dispersed between the squadrons of horse fired a salvo at point blank range, disrupting the charge of the Imperialist cuirassier and allowing the Swedish cavalry to counterattack at an advantage. The same tactics worked an hour or so later when the imperial cavalry charged the Swedish left flank.
Cuirassier du Roi, 1780. Known as 8e régiment de cavalerie after the French Revolution, they were one of the few European cuirassier regiments in the late 18th century who still wore breast and back plates. By the French Revolutionary Wars at the end of the 18th century, the use of body armour had declined to virtual extinction.
The cuirassier's armour would have been exceptionally heavy and thick—sometimes up to thirty-six kilogrammes (eighty pounds)—and would be expected to stop a bullet. A regiment of cuirassiers killed the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus at the 1632 Battle of Lützen. The French introduced their own cuirassiers in 1666.