Royal-Normandie Regiment Cavalry — Wikipedia

Royal-Normandy Regiment Cavalry
regiment
Creation	1674
Dissolution	1814
Pays	France
Allegiance	Kingdom of France
Type	regiment
Role	cavalry
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The Royal-Normandy Regiment Cavalry is a cavalry regiment of the Kingdom of France, the French Republic and the First Empire, created in 1674.

• first ^is mars 1674 : Creation of Broglie Cavalry Regiment
• 1676: renowned Charlus Cavalry Regiment
• December 30, 1689 : renowned Lévis Cavalry Regiment
• 28 mars 1704 : renowned Vaupalière Cavalry Regiment
• 1707: renowned Bessay Cavalry Regiment
• 1713: renowned Novion Cavalry Regiment
• 1717: renowned Charlus Cavalry Regiment
• 1723: renowned Lévis Cavalry Regiment
• June 8, 1744 : renowned Rohan Cavalry Regiment
• January 1749 : renowned Henrichemont Cavalry Regiment
• 1759: renowned Escouloubre Regiment Cavalry
• first ^is December 1761 : reinforced by incorporation of the poly cavalry and renowned regiment Royal-Normandy Regiment Cavalry ^{[ first ]}
• first ^is January 1791 : renowned 19 ^{It is} cavalry regiment
• 1792: renowned 18 ^{It is} cavalry regiment After the desertion of 15 ^{It is} (ex royal-German regiment cavalry)
• September 24, 1803: transformed into dragons, the 27 ^{It is} dragons regiment
• 1814: licensee

Standard [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

4 “yellow ſoye, sun in the middle embroidered in gold, & golden fringes” ^{[ 2 ]} .
Identical obverse and reverse

Clothing [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Uniforms
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  from 1740 to 1757

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  from 1757 to 1762

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  Royal-Normandy Regiment Cavalry from 1762 to 1767

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  Royal-Normandy Regiment Cavalry from 1767 to 1776

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  Royal-Normandy Regiment Cavalry from 1776 to 1791

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  19 ^{It is} cavalry regiment from 1791 to 1792, then 18 ^{It is} cavalry regiment

Field masters et colonels [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• first ^is mars 1674 : Victor Maurice, count of Broglie, brigadier the 12 mars 1675 , camp marshal August 25, 1676 , lieutenant general on August 24, 1688 , marshal of France February 2, 1724 , † August 4, 1727
• mars 1676 : Charles Antoine de Lévis, Marquis de Poligny, count of Charlus, † 1719
• December 30, 1689 : Charles Eugène, Marquis then Duke of Levis, son of the previous one, brigadier the January 29, 1702 , camp marshal February 10, 1704 , lieutenant general on February 18, 1708 , † May 9, 1734
• 28 mars 1704 : N. de Bernières de la Vaupalière
• 1707: N. du Bessay
• 1713: N. de Novion
• 1717: N. de Lévis, count of Charlus
• 1723: N., Marquis de Lévis
• February 27, 1727 : François Charles de Lévis, count of Châteaumorand, brigadier the first ^is January 1740 , camp marshal May 2, 1744 , lieutenant general on May 10, 1748 , † January 22, 1751
• June 8, 1744 : Louis Auguste de Chabot, viscount of Rohan then viscount of Chabot, brigadier the October 19, 1746 , declared camp marshal in January 1749 by patent of May 10, 1748 , † October 16, 1753
• January 1749 : N. de Béthune-Sully, prince of Henrichemont
• 1759: Henri François de Monster de Sauton, Marquis d’Escouloubre
• April 16, 1767 : Anne Emmanuel Ferdinand François, Prince de Croï-Solre, Maréchal de France en 1783, † December 15, 1803
• first ^is January 1784 : Joseph Marie de Lorraine, Prince of Vaudémont
• 3 mars 1785 : Élie Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Chalais
• July 25, 1791 : Jacques François de la Chaise
• February 25, 1792 : Joseph François Régis Camille Gras Serre
• November 10, 1793 : Archange Louis by Villaunay Riot D’Apannay
• November 21, 1793  : Jacques Renard Belfort, † January 18, 1819
• July 30, 1794  : David Terreyre
• November 20, 1806 : Charles François Antoine Lallemand
• October 14, 1811 : Louis Charlemagne Prévost

Campaigns and battles [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

18 ^{It is} cavalry regiment

The 18 ^{It is} cavalry regiment participates with 3 squadrons in the repression of rebellious troops in the Nancy Operation case ” Decided by war ».
He campaigned from 1792 to 1794 in the Rhine army.
Years’ campaigns IV and V at the Rhine-et-Moselle army; An VI at the armies of Germany, Helvetia and Italy; year VII in the army of Italy; years VIII and IX at the reserve and Italy armies.

27 ^{It is} dragons regiment

Campaigns of the year XIV at the reserve of the Cavalry of the Grande Army; 1806 at first ^is Cavalry corps; 1807 at the cavalry reserve corps; 1808 in the Spanish army; 1809 to the armies of Spain and Germany; From 1810 to 1812 to the Spanish army; 1813 to the armies of Spain and Germany; 1814 at 6 ^{It is} Cavalry body.

Personalities having served within the regiment [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Gevigney et Mercey ^{[ 3 ]} . In 1695 and 1696, the parish registers reported the regiment called “of the Marquis de Levys” “in Cartier to Gevigney”. Appear:
  • Jacques Arsonnet, major surgeon, from Ile-de-France
  • Sieur Ducarnet, company captain in the regiment
  • Philippe du Parcq, marshal of the company of the company from Lille
  • Benoit Roullt Cavalier in the same company, from Montpellier
  • Jean Baptiste Talley, rider in the same company, from “Nery en Bourbonnois”
• Jussey ^{[ 2 ]}
• 1785 Maubeuge
• 1787 Douai
• 1789 Toul

Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Fifth abbreviated by the general map of the military of France, on land and on sea – since November 1737 up to December 1738 , Pierre Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris 1739
• Military State of France for the year 1762 , by MM. Montandre-Longchamps, knight of Montandre, and de Roussel, fifth edition, at Guyllin, Paris 1762
• Historical-military chronicle , Pinard, volumes 3, 4, 5 and 7, Paris 1761, 1761, 1762 and 1764

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