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FRANCE 1810

CHASSEURS à CHEVAL "GUARD"

The first to prepare a body of hunters on foot was in XVIII the century the king of Prussia Federico II the Large one, than the included ones in the light infantry. In France the what's new was recepita during the War of seven years (1756-1763) and gave life on foot to a legion of hunters which units of light cavalry were placed side by side very soon.

The hunters to horse of the Guard of the Consuls, the body from which would be been born the Imperial Guard, were created with decree 13 January 1800, reorganizing those that had been the guides to horse of Napoleone during the campaign of Egypt.

The 8 september of the 1800 unit was transformed in one squadron of two 14 companies and November of a 1801 divenne regiment.

Four years after to the new unit veliti came added ten companies of, make armed you the light one that had to carry out auxiliary tasks regarding the hunters to horse. In 1813, little before the financial ruin of Napoleone, the regiment was reorganized and widened until comprising eight squadrons.

UNIFORM

The first uniform of the hunters of the Guard resumed that one of the guides to horse of Napoleone and green dark with colbacco was equipped of visiera. Later on it was modified inspiring itself to the uniform of the ussari, but it maintained green the color typical of the units of the hunters. The colbacco original wide one was replaced from one more and without visiera.

In the 1810 uniform of gala of the hunters it comprised a colbacco black with red flame and green and red spandrel, dolman (giubbino green, pelisse scarlet adorned on the neck, polsini and long the edges from wool of goffered black sheep, pants of fallow deer skin, from the boots from mounts to the Hungarian and gloves white men. A section symbol was the sabretache for the cartine. In the uniform from field the pelisse lacked and the pants were of green burlap in ink with the dolman. The officials dressed like the troop, but their uniforms were of better weaving and adorned with golden passamaneria and the Chainwheels of the pelisse they were of beaver.


Gruppo Murat