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As other Russian heavy cavalry guard regiments (the Life-Guards Horse Regiment, His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment, and Her Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment), the Chevalier Guards were equipped as cuirassiers (with some differences in uniform and equipment from army cuirassiers and other guard cuirassier regiments). [2]
Napoleon believed it sufficiently useful that he had cuirassier-style armour issued to his two carabinier regiments after the Battle of Wagram. The Russians, having abandoned Austrian-style half-cuirasses in 1801, reissued full cuirasses in 1812 for all Army and Guard cuirassier regiments, with troops receiving them during the summer 1812 and ...
Pages in category "Russian military units and formations of the Napoleonic Wars" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Horse carabinier's uniform before 1809 Horse carabinier as of 1809. The corps of Carabiniers was a group of heavy cavalry originally created by Louis XIV.From 1791 to 1809, their uniforms consisted of a blue coat with a blue piped red collar, red cuffs, lapels and turnbacks with white grenades, red epaulettes with edged white straps, red cuff flaps for the 1st Regiment, blue piped red for the ...
2nd Cuirassier Division: Major General Ilya Mikhailovich Duka. 2nd Cavalry Brigade Ekaterinoslav and Military Order Cuirassier Regiments; 3rd Cavalry Brigade Gluchov, Little Russia and Novgorod Cuirassier Regiments; 4th Reserve Cavalry Corps: Major General Count Karl Sivers 12th Cavalry Brigade Kharkov and Chernigov Dragoon Regiments; 13th ...
Russian Army of the Seven Years War (2). Osprey. Kovács, Tibor (2010). Huszárfegyverek a 15–17 században (in Hungarian). Martin Opitz Kiadó. LaRocca, Donald J. (2006). Warriors of the Himalayas. Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matthews, A.S. (1964). "The Uniform of the 15th (or King's) Light Dragoons ...
The four Russian infantry regiments defending the redoubt were annihilated. During the melee, Caulaincourt was slain while leading the 5th Cuirassier Regiment. [7] After the disaster in Russia, Napoleon ordered four bodies of cavalry to be rebuilt for his army in Germany.
The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard (Russian: Лейб-гвардия Leyb-gvardiya, from German Leib "body"; cf. Life Guards / Bodyguard) were combined Imperial Russian Army forces units serving as counterintelligence to prevent sabotage of important imperial palace, personal guards of the Emperor of Russia and imperial family, public security in capital, and ...