Regiment “Lancieri di Aosta” (6th) – Wikipedia
“Lancieri di Aosta” regiment (6th) is the name of the 6th cavalry regiment of the Italian army. The regiment has been stationed in Palermo since 1991 and is subject to the mechanized brigade based on Sicily Aosta . With its wheelworkers, it supports the other associations of the brigade and takes on educational tasks.
The Lancieri di Aosta are a cavalry regiment in battalion strength. It consists of five escadrons. It has been divided as a mixed tank reconnaissance association since 2009. In addition to the staff and supply skadron, it has four escadrons with 40 types Centaur and 36 armored Puma Type and some other vehicles. By 2008, the regiment had only heavy escadrons with a total of 54 Centaurs .
Origins [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Although the regiment like the overarching brigade is the name Aosta Both associations have no common origins and no common history until 1991. Also the 6th infantry regiment of the brigade in 1955 Aosta has no historical relationship to the Lancieri di Aosta (6.) . For military reasons, the cavalry regiment was moved by Northeast Titals to Sicily in 1991, with the agreement on names and numbers represent a desired by -product. This also applies to the 6th Bersaglieri regiment of the brigade.
The regiment was under the name Aosta Cavalry on September 16, 1774 by King Viktor Amadeus III. set up by Savoy in Voghera. During these years, the King of Sardinia-Piedmont carried out various reforms in the Piedmont Army, which were based on the work of Frederick the Great of Prussia. Three cavalry regiments, Dragoni del Génévois , Piedmont Reale Cavalry and Savoy cavalry two of their escadrons, with which then Aosta Cavalry was formed. The new regiment trusted the king to his son, the Duke of Aosta, who became Viktor Emanuel I König in 1802. The name of the regiment refers to the sixteen -year -old Duke of Aosta, who became the honor of the association at the time of the regimental constellation. The first commander was Colonel Alessandro Amoretti d’Envie.
From 1792 to 1796 the regiment fought against the French revolutionary troops. After Napoleon I was occupied by Piedmont in 1796, Aosta Cavalry dissolved, but his escadrons from the regiments Piedmont Reale Cavalry and Savoy cavalry temporarily adopted.
Italian unification [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
In contrast to many other Piedmontesian regiments Aosta Cavalry Not re -established immediately after the end of the Napoleonic rule. In addition, King Karl Albert’s extensive military reforms only occurred in 1831. Because in the meantime another cavalry regiment ( Lancieri di Novara ) was created Aosta Cavalry When it was reorganized on October 3, 1831 in Vercelli, the order number 6.
In 1848 it fought in 1848 with Goito, Mantua, Santa Lucia and Custozza, in 1849 at Novara. In 1850, the regiment was assigned to other reforms of the light cavalry and was given the name Cavalleggeri of Aosta . At the same time, it wore to draw up the new Chevaauleger regiment Cavalleggeri of Alexandria at. Two years later they were Cavalleggeri of Aosta Equipped with lances again, which was not unusual for the time ( horsepower ). In 1855 and 1856 parts of the regiment took part in the Crimean War and fought u. on the Tschornaja and at Kamara.
In the second War of Italian, they fought Cavalleggeri of Aosta 1859 at Castelnuovo Scrivia (May 5), Montebello Della Battaglia (May 20), Madonna Della Scoperta (June 24) and the siege of Peschiera del Garda (June 26 to July 7). In 1860 the regiment took its current name Lancieri di Aosta on what it fell into the category of the Ulanes, but which were not called that in various European countries. In the years after that, the Lancieri di Aosta in Puglia against so -called “brigants”.
In the third Italian War of Independence, the regiment emerged with the Cavalleggeri Guide in the battle near Custozza, which was unfortunate for Italy. With his commander, Colonel Alessandro Vandone, the Lancieri di Aosta A total of 14 attacks in unfavorable terrain on June 24, 1866, one of them uphill. For the missions at Oliosi, Cascina Valpezone and especially on the Monte Vento, the regiment was awarded the highest Italian military order. June 24th has remained a regimental holiday to this day.
In 1870 parts of the regiment were used to take Rome, from 1887 also in Italian-East Africa.
In the world wars [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
At the beginning of the First World War they were Lancieri di Aosta Part of the IV. Kavalleriebgrigade, which in turn subordinate the 4th cavalry division. The regiment operated on the lower Isonzo until the end of 1915, and in May 1916 it fought on the plateau of the seven municipalities during the Austrian-Hungarian spring offensive near Asiago. In 1917 it was taken over in the area of the XXIV army corps during the 11th Isonzoschlacht on the Bainsizza-Hochplateau. After the breakthrough of the middle powers at Karfreit in the 12th Isonzoschlacht, they tried Lancieri di Aosta whose advance u. to slow down at Cividale del Friuli and Fagagna. In November they retired behind the Piave, where they again took safety tasks. At the beginning of November 1918, they were involved in the Italian final offensive in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.
Between the two world wars they experienced Lancieri di Aosta A time characterized by uncertainties, because in view of the beginning of motorization of the armed forces, there was no precise ideas about the future of the traditional cavalry. Various cavalry regiments had mounted and armored escadrons, the latter being equipped with light cavalry tanks (tankers), which were then also used in the Second World War.
From 1920 to 1934 the regiment temporarily took the name again Cavalleggeri of Aosta at. Individual escadrons took over the names and traditions of various resolved cavalry associations. Parts of the regiment were converted into pure machine gun units in these years and gradually motorized them. From 1935 to 1937, large parts of the regiment grown to almost 5,800 men took part in the war and in the so-called colonial police operations in Italian-East Africa. 1939 they were Lancieri di Aosta involved in the occupation of Albania.
During the Second World War, the regiment, which was reduced again with its five mounted escadrons, was initially used in the disastrous Italian campaign against Greece. It was characterized several times in the support of impressed divisions. In March 1941 the Lancieri di Aosta from Albania in the German-Italian attack on Yugoslavia, then returned to Greece as a occupation force. There they fought against resistance groups, with which many Italian soldiers secretly sympathized. When the ceasefire from Cassibility between Italy and the Allies came into force on September 8, 1943, they remained Lancieri di Aosta Without further commands in the Greek Trikala, which was continued to be controlled despite the pressure of the partisans. In the following days, the regimental commander agreed with the Allies and the Greek resistance groups, which means that the Lancieri di Aosta The fate of many other Italian military associations in the Balkans was spared, the relatives of which generally got between the fronts with tragic consequences.
In the following months the regiment fought against German troops, including at Larisa, where you attack a military airfield and destroyed several planes. Despite or because of some successes that the Lancieri di Aosta During this time, on October 14, 1944, they were suddenly attacked by two battalions of the Greek People’s Liberation Army Elas. After violent battles, the regiment finally received the command to stop the fire. Until March 1945, a large part of the soldiers were held in captivity, often under cruel conditions. In October 1944, the standard of the regiment managed to bring to Italy.
A MG Association of the Regiment fought in North Africa from 1941 to 1943 and was characterized by Tobruk and in the battle for Tunisia near Enfidaville.
post war period [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The 6th cavalry regiment Lancieri di Aosta was created in 1951 as a tank reconnaissance association in Reggio Nell’emilia. It was Equipped with Type M47 tank and had a small flying reconnaissance unit with propeller planes of the Piper L-4 propeller plane until the late 1950s, which were then taken over by the army flyers. The regiment was dissolved again on August 31, 1964. From it, two associations emerged at the battalion level ( Squadron Group ) that the traditions of the cavalry regiments Lancieri di Aosta and Cavalleggeri di Saluzzo continued. The structured in this way Lancieri di Aosta were stationed in Cervignano del Friuli, where in 1976 and with Piedmont cavalry (Villa Opicina) and the Lancieri of Florence (Sgonico, 1991–1995 in Grosseto) Die Panzerbrigade Vittorio Veneto (Villa Opicina at Trieste) formed. The Lancieri di Aosta took part in an aid for the civilian population after a severe earthquake in Friuli.
After dissolution of the armored brigade Vittorio Veneto were the Lancieri di Aosta moved to Palermo to Sicily in May 1991 and the Infantry Groß there Aosta Subject. There two escadrons took over the traditions of the cavalry regiments that were dissolved a long time ago Cavallggeri di Catania (22nd) and Cavallggeri of Palermo (30th). Instead of the Type Leopard 1 tank, they received Lancieri di Aosta Centauro wheel armor. In 1993 they accepted the term regiment again, although the association continued to have battalion strength. Since then they have Lancieri di Aosta Participated in police -like tasks in Sicily and peace missions in the former Yugoslavia, especially after the last conscripts have passed in 2005. In 2009 the regiment was first used in Lebanon as part of Unifil.
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