(French: Garde Impériale du Second Empire), with commander, général Bourbaki, garrisoned in Paris in times of peace. The Imperial Guard reached Metz on July...

Châlons to 140,000 men, to have created three new army corps, 33 new regiments and 100,000 gardes mobiles, and to have brought the defences of the capital...

Armée) III Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) IV Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) V Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) VI Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) Garde Іmpériale (Grande...

Empire came to power, Napoleon III re-established the Garde Impériale, an elite military corps attached to his person. The Guard took up the traditions...

d'Haiti) Corps of Engineers (Corps du Génie Militaire) National Guard (Garde Nationale) Special Forces (Forces Spéciales) Medical & Sanitary Corps (Corps Médico-Sanitaire)...

siege of Metz and at the Battle of Sedan, led to naval officers being sent from their ships to command hastily assembled reservists of the Garde Mobile...

Battle of Mars-la-Tour, Battle of Gravelotte and the Siege of Metz. Although an elite corps which now numbered over 20,000, the Guard did not perform up...

surrendered on 28 August, and a thanksgiving ceremony was held at Notre-Dame de la Garde the following day. Lyon was taken by the 1st Motorised Infantry Division...

Marshal Bazaine at Metz (27 October). Gambetta reinforced the armée de la Loire with the 18th Corps (General Billot) and the 20th Corps (General Crouzat)...

Polytechnique in 1821. Niel entered the engineer school at Metz, became lieutenant in the Engineers Corps in 1827, and captain in 1833. He fought in the French...

at Nancy, then the Camp de Châlons, starting from 1 June 1858. On 22 April 1859 he received the command of the 3rd Army Corps of the Alpes and participated...

Prince royal de Saxe. Elle comprend les XIIe et IVe corps et la Garde prussienne. In La guerre de 1870, pages 38 et 39. In Histoire générale de la guerre...

Seconde-Lieutenant (2nd Lieutenant) in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards (1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß) in Potsdam. On 25 March 1884, he was transferred to Schwerin...

von Langermann und Erlenkamp) Garde-Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 1 (Oberstleutnant Max Friedrich von Schlechtendal) Garde-Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment...

Chapel Salle des Gardes Salle de la Livrée Grande Salle, òu le Roy mange Antichambre du Roy Chambre de Parade du Roy (former Chambre de Son Altesse Royale...

Academy of Metz honored him with a medal for his essay pondering collective punishment, thus establishing him as literary figure. (Pierre Louis de Lacretelle...

defended by a mixed force consisting of three battalions of Garde Mobiles deployed from Pont-de-Metz eastward to the main road from Amiens through Dury and...

The Guards of Honour (French: Gardes d'Honneur) were light cavalry regiments raised in the French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars in 1813. Napoleon...

Régiment de Grenadiers à Pied de la Garde Imperial) The Regiment of Gendarmerie On 23 October 1870 with the capitulation of the army at Metz he was made...

was appointed as Generaloberst (full general), in command of the XVI Corps in Metz. On 2 August 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, Prittwitz...

crown. Antoine Charles Louis de Tabouillot (1775–1813) was an officer of the French King's personal bodyguard Garde du Corps at Versailles and of the Armée...

The first of them (Régiments de Picardie, Piémont, Navarre and Champagne) were called Les Vieux Corps (The Old Corps). It was normal policy to disband...

was born in Marcq, Ardennes. He was educated at the college of St Louis in Metz and joined the royal army in 1790. His first military campaign was in 1792...

Gustave Kahn (21 December 1859, in Metz – 5 September 1936, in Paris) was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. He was also active, via publishing and...

defeats at Wissembourg and Wörth), the capitulation of Marshal Bazaine in Metz at the Battle of Gravelotte, the defeat and capture of Emperor Napoleon III...

agree... For example, on 9 June, ... the French I Corps had been at Lille, while the IV Corps was at Metz. Assuming an officer had set his watch at noon...

Cavalry Division with three brigades, one regiment of Hussars and the Garde du Corps. The first Infantry division with two brigades and a regiment of Grenadier...

Institute - Harvard University], the University of Chicago, Centre Pompidou-Metz, ICI-CCN - Montpellier, and CCN - Le Havre. In 2019, The Empty Gallery (Hong...

Intelligence Training Squadron 20.530 (French: Escadron de formation au renseignement (EFR) 20.530) (Metz), training air and space force and naval officers...

Regiments. Gardes Françaises (6 Battalions) Gardes Suisses (4 Battalions) Régiment de Colonel Général Régiment de Picardie Régiment de Piémont Régiment de Provence...