Fusilier-Grenadiers de la Garde Impériale. It was finally disbanded on 24 September 1815 after Napoleon's Second Abdication. The 4e Régiment de Grenadiers-à-Pied...
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The Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (French: Grenadiers à Cheval de La Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial...
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Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard (redirect from 1er Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval de la Garde Impériale)
de la Garde impériale) constituted a light cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard during the French Consulate and First French Empire respectively...
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as France (Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale) and Argentina (Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers) established units of Horse Grenadiers, and for a...
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Dragoons of the Imperial Guard (redirect from Dragons de la Garde Impériale)
Empress's Dragoons of the Imperial Guard (French: Dragons de l'Impératrice de la Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry unit formed by Napoleon I through the...
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Grande Armée (redirect from Grande Armée (Premier Empire))
of the Grande Armée. Imperial Guard Foot Grenadiers (Grenadiers à Pied de la Garde Impériale): The Grenadiers of the Guard was the most senior regiment...
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Grenadiers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (2ème Régiment de grenadiers à pied de la Garde impériale), they were part of the Middle Guard. Still dressed in...
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Uniformes de Premier Empire. (Complete 10 Volume set). Paris: Grancher, 1977–1985. Vol. 1. La Garde Imperiale, Troupes a Pied. (Tome I); Vol. 2. La Garde Imperiale...
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German Empires prior to 1917–18. Monarchs frequently modelled their royal guards upon those of fellow rulers. Thus, Napoleon I's Garde Imperiale was imitated...
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The Gendarmes d'élite de la Garde impériale (English: "élite gendarmes of the Imperial Guard") was a gendarmerie unit formed in 1801 by Napoleon as part...
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population during the Siege of Paris. Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale Albert Verly, L'escadron des cent-gardes, Ollendorff, Paris (1895). Illustrations...
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establishment of the First Empire, the corps of mounted grenadiers of the Consuls' Guard became the regiment of mounted grenadiers of the Imperial Guard,...
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Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment (redirect from Preobrazhensky Grenadiers)
Glory of the Empires 1880-1914. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 492. ISBN 978-0-297-85266-7. Patrick de Gmeline, page 25 "La Garde Imperiale Imperiale Russe 1896-1914"...
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Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard (category Regiments of the First French Empire)
The Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard (French: Mamelouks de la Garde Impériale) were a cavalry unit that served in Napoleon I’s Imperial Guard during the...
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Battle of Waterloo (redirect from Battle of La Belle Alliance)
Cuirassiers run away from 50 Dutchmen. The French grenadiers then faltered and broke. The 4th Grenadiers, seeing their comrades retreat and having suffered...
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French Imperial Army (1804–1815) (category First French Empire)
(Chefs de Bataillons) – posts created in 1811 Assistant Sub-Inspectors, 2nd Class (Captains) War Commissaires The Imperial Guard (Garde Impériale) was the...
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Lithuanian Tatars of the Imperial Guard (category Regiments of the First French Empire)
Lithuanian Tatars of the Imperial Guard (French: Tartares Lituaniens de la Garde Impériale / Lithuanian: Imperatoriškosios Gvardijos Lietuvos totoriai) were...
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of 566 from the elite Garde Impériale (both infantry and cavalry) and the remaining 300 were from a small battalion of grenadiers. The army was under the...
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Régiment de Grenadiers à Pied de la Garde Impériale) (colonel Lecointe) Imperial Guard 3rd Grenadier Regiment à Pied (French: 3e Régiment de Grenadiers à Pied...
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Milice (redirect from Franc-Gardes)
On Bastille Day, 14 July 1944, the Franc-Garde suppressed a revolt started by prisoners at Paris prison La Santé, killing 34 prisoners. The legal standing...
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the Franc-Garde was announced on 30 January 1943 and it was deployed on 2 June of the same year in the Calabres camp near Vichy with Jean de Vaugelas serving...
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d'artillerie de la Garde impériale sous le Premier Empire (1804–1815). Lyon.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) de Saint-Hilaire...
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Imperial Guard Artillery (redirect from Imperial Guard Artillery (1st empire))
Eugène (1859). Napoléon Ier et la garde impériale (in French). Furne. Fieffé, Eugène (1859). Napoléon Ier et la garde impériale (in French). Furne. Lachouque...
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National Gendarmerie (redirect from Inspection générale de la Gendarmerie nationale)
such as palaces and the mint (e.g., the garde de la prévôté de l'hôtel du roi and the prévôté des monnaies de Paris.) While its existence ensured the...
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Imperial Guard (Napoleon III) (category Second French Empire)
of Voltigeurs plus one Chasseur battalion); - 2nd (Grenadier) Division (three regiments of Grenadiers plus Guard Zouave regiment); - Cavalry Division (comprised...
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Louis Lepic (category Generals of the First French Empire)
rose to the rank of général de division and held the prestigious command of the Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, the senior heavy cavalry regiment...
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Russian Imperial Guard (redirect from 2nd Guard infantry division (Russian Empire))
Pillars of Monarchy. p. 137. ISBN 0-7043-2424-5. Patrick de Gmeline, pages 36-37 "La Garde Imperiale Russe 1896-1914", publisher Charles-Lavauzelle Paris...
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Napoléon Ier et la Garde Impériale, Commandant Henri LACHOUQUE, 1956 Garde Impériale, les Eclaireurs, Raoul & Jean BRUNON, 1961 La grande armée de 1812, Carle...
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Guards of Honour (France) (redirect from Gardes d'honneur)
attract such men into his army, forming the Gendarmerie d'ordonnance de la Garde impériale [fr] in 1806. Some 394 men from well-born families joined but the...
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Battle of Magenta (category Battles of the Second Italian War of Independence)
brunt of the fighting was borne by 5,000 grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard, still mostly in their First Empire style of uniforms. The battle of Magenta...
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