Cuirassier Regiments of France - 3rd Cuirassier Regiment, 1st Cuirassier Regiment (Paperback)

Chapters: 3rd Cuirassier Regiment, 1st Cuirassier Regiment. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 3rd Cuirassier Regiment (French: ) was a cavalry regiment of the French Army, later reequipped as an armored regiment. Timoleon de Sercourt dEsclainvilliers inherits his fathers company of Light horse in 1635, he was three years old. The same year in May, Cardinal Richelieu decides to reorganize the French Cavalry, Esclainvilliers company becomes part of the Cardinal Duc regiment. It fought in the Battle of Rocroi as a part of that regiment. During this time the unit becomes the Esclainvilliers Cavalry, the ancestor of the 3rd Cuirassier Regiment. The regiment distinguished itself fighting in Flanders in 1650. In 1652, under the command of Turenne, it fights against the fronders in Paris and is present at Stenay. The regiment is renamed the Commissaire General Regiment in April 1656. The regiment sets up six companies in 1665 for the reconquest of Flanders. The regiment takes part in the siege of Maastricht in 1673, and then is garrison for a time in Franche-Comte before it returns to Flanders. It stays in Flanders during both the nine years war and War of Spanish Succession The regiment joins the Army of the Rhine at Landan in 1742; with it the regiment distinguishes itself at Ratisbon. It is sent to the Army of the Alps in 1746, but the war ends the next year with the peace of Aux-la-Chapelle. During the Seven years war it is sent to Saint-Lo in 1762 to defend the French coastline. In 1791, the regt was renamed 3rd Regiment de Cavalrie. In 1802/03 the Regiment was renamed the 3rd Cuirassiers. Valmy (1792), Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Friedland, Heilsberg. In 1807 a detachment was sent to Spain where it was combined with detachments from the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1218966