FRANCE 1812

ENGINEER OF THE GUARD

When the guard was reorganized by Murat, in the 1800, the Engineers body you was represented only by a battalion commander and from a captain, charged of directing the housing penalty operations. The thing not changed till the January of the 1810, year in which the Kirgener general was famous commander of the engineers of the guard.

Some time after, the 10 July of the same 1810, a decree of Napoleon ordered the creation of a company of hoers of the guard to the orders of Kirgener: theirs task was of being on the alert against to him fires in the imperial palace. The theoretical actuals of the new unit was 139: a captain, a first lieutenant, a second lieutenant, a sergeant major, four sergeants, a quartermaster, eight corporals, six will work, 32 hoers of first class, 72 of downstream class, ten coachmen and two drummers.

The company has eight pomp, towed each from two horses, and of a caisson for to him drawn tools from four horses.

The structure of the unit remained substantially undebased till the 1813, when the number of his actuals were nearly tripled, arriving 376.

UNIFORM

The collar and the cuffs were also they black, the epaulet, the cuff and to it borders of the red jacket, the bandoleer and all the belt of white leather.

The cartridge-belt of the privates ( that during the marches they bore on the shoulder in a rucksack of brown leathers ) they were black, you decorate with an eagle of gilded brass. Instead the officials bore white cartridge-belt with imperial eagle black.

The uniform of all, the hoers of the guard was similar: blue jacket with collar and black cuffs, trousers also they blue and black boots.

Jacket was adorned with epaulet, cuff king borders red and with yellow buttons they bring the weighed upon imperial eagle.

An important difference regarded the headgear: the hoers of first class bore a metal helmet with red plume and crest lined with black hair of sheep; that of downstream class a black shako with visor, adorned from a red cord, from a brass of imperial eagle over the front and from a red plume.

During the ordinary service the troop bore grey spat lock from lateral buttons of leathers. The spat became black with copper buttons, in the gala of winter uniform and white with bone buttons in that spring from parry.

The hoers of first class exhibited a red wool braid on the left arms. the corporals are distinguished for two yellow and ornamented braids of red on the cuffs of the jacket.

The sergeants have a gilded braid with trimmings ate into on the cuffs and epaulet ate into with gilt ornament. The officials finally wore the same uniform of the troop, but made up with better material and with gilt decorations.


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