responsibilities of the gendarmerie—renamed gendarmerie impériale—were expanded significantly. In contrast to the mounted Maréchaussée, the gendarmerie were both horse...

The Elite Gendarmerie of the Imperial Guard (French: Gendarmerie d'élite de la Garde impériale) was a French gendarmerie unit formed in 1801 by Napoleon...

The Imperial Guard (French: Garde Impériale) was an elite guard formation of the French Imperial Army under the direct command of Napoleon. Expanding...

responsibilities of the gendarmerie—renamed gendarmerie impériale—were expanded significantly. In contrast to the mounted Maréchaussée, the gendarmerie were both horse...

Imperial Guard (French: 1er régiment de chevau-légers lanciers de la Garde impériale (polonais); Polish: 1. Pułk Szwoleżerów-Lansjerów Gwardii Cesarskiej (Polski))...

with him from France. The army was made up of 566 from the elite Garde Impériale (both infantry and cavalry) and the remaining 300 were from a small battalion...

Garde Impériale, also known eventually as the Matelots de la Garde, formed on 17 September 1803, and Matelots des Bataillons de la Marine Impériale of which...

(horse grenadiers) Chasseurs à Cheval (light cavalry) Les Mamelukes Gendarmerie d'Elite Artillery of the Guard Light Artillery of the Guard Artillery...

Empire, the navy was designated as the Imperial French Navy (la Marine impériale française). Institutionally, however, the navy has never lost its short...

Gendarmes of the Imperial Guard (Gendarmes d'élite de la Garde impériale) was a gendarmerie unit formed in 1801 by Napoleon as part of the Consular Guard...

licenciement, comprenant les faits généraux des campagnes de 1805 à 1815. pp. 36–53. Pigeard, Alain (2005). La Garde impériale. p. 640. ISBN 9791021016729....

web}}: External link in |quote= (help) The second rank was used by mounted organizations of the Army: cavalry, horse artillery, gendarmerie and trains...

warfare. Certain countries such as France (Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale) and Argentina (Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers) established units of Horse...

des chasseurs became the régiment des chasseurs à cheval de la Garde impériale, organized into four squadrons totaling 1,018 men, to which was added...

hundred days. During this period, Savary was inspector-general of the gendarmerie and a peer of France. Following the Battle of Waterloo, he accompanied...

clan, and his cousin Carlo Lo Russo were arrested by agents of National Gendarmerie Section de recherches and by Carabinieri when quietly in a bar in Nice...

formation of 50 Battalions of Imperial Sailors (Bataillones de la Marine Impériale), each battalion assigned to man a ship of the line or two frigates. It...

Supplétives). This latter force provided a form of military police (gendarmerie) for internal security purposes and were primarily deployed in the areas...

infantry division attached to it), II Cavalry Corps. Commander of the Garde Impériale: Marshal Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier (on sick leave, following...

to Toulouse, where he was raised. In 1867, he graduated from l'Ecole Impériale Militaire in Saint-Cyr and began his career as a military officer. He...

impériale (1810). Bulletin des lois de la République française [Bulletin of the laws of the French Republic] (in French). Paris: Imprimerie impériale...

imprisonment and then murder by the Germans, assisted by the French gendarmerie. The Holocaust researcher Serge Klarsfeld said in 2004: "Drancy is the...

(transl. mobile reserve groups), abbreviated as GMR, were paramilitary gendarmerie units created by the Vichy regime during the Second World War. Their...

original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2023. La Constitution Impériale du 20 mai 1805[permanent dead link‍] "Remember Haiti | Revolution | Royaume...

Royale Militaire then located in Fontainebleau. Renamed the École Spéciale Impériale Militaire after Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor, it moved in 1808 to...

Republican Guard, a security force subject to military law and organisation (gendarmerie) comprising 25,000 personnel. This force is under the authority of both...

polytechnique". Under the First and the Second Empire, it was renamed the "École impériale polytechnique". The students, alumni, and graduates were called "Polytechnicians"...

memorial to their imprisonment and murder by the Nazis, assisted by the gendarmerie of Occupied France. Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris 1941–1944,...

formed the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (LVF), Légion impériale, SS-Sturmbrigade Frankreich and finally in 1945 the 33rd Waffen Grenadier...

members had to be volunteers. In addition to the army, the size of the Gendarmerie was fixed at 60,000 men plus an anti-aircraft force of 10,000 men. Despite...