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FRANCE 1810

HORSE ARTILLERY 

 

The Horse Artillery was added to the Garde Imperial on 29 July 1804, when an extra troop was added to the one that had been in the Consular Guard. Imported January 3 , 1800, following the reorganization of this volute body from Napoleon after the coup d'état of the 18 Brumaire 1799.

Each troop was 98 men strong. In April 1806, a regiment of three squadrons, each of two troops, was formed. Each squadron consisted of 100 old soldiers and 20 Vélites. 

On the introduction of the Foot Artillery into the Garde Impériale, the Horse Regiment was reduced to four troops. The artillery of the Garde Impériale consisted of 198 pieces, formed into 26 batteries. 

All the members of the horse artillery were excellent riders, trained to get off, go up and change of position to the pieces to big speed. 

In compensation have reputation of big quarrelsome person, that it doesn't hesitate to duel with the championed of the other unit for the bent minimum. 

 

UNIFORM

In the 1810 the gala uniform of the artillerymen to horse of the guard includes a black busby with flame and red plume, a short called blue jacket dolman, an also this pelisse blue leaned on the left shoulder, trousers of the same colour worn within the boots to the Hungarian. 


Bandoleer was white, width range from the left shoulder to the right flank. Decorations were ate into with gilt buttons in the troop, entirely gild in the officials. 

The uniform from field was like to that from gala, but without the pelisse. A distinctive element of all the light cavalry unit of the French army was the sabretache, little leathers of purse in which came documented pantry and dose.

Till the 1812, the French horse artillery has the same uniform of the hussar, with blue jacket and trousers, black busby with red plume, boots from climbs to the Hungarian. In 1812 the dolman was replaced by a sky-blue jacket with two file sun button and without red frog, while the busby was replaced by a black shako with adorned visor on the before from the imperial and devoid eagle of plume.


The official of the artillery of ordinary unit bore a gilded ruff as  it marks badge of the really rank; not so the officials of the horse artillery, that bore the tradition uniform of the chivalry. the guns in equipment to the various regiment was depicted in a green intense obtained mixing 2500 grams of yellow paint ochre with 30 grams of black paint.


Gruppo Murat