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    The Hompesch Hussars (German: Hompesch Husarenregiment, French: Régiment des Hussards de Hompesch) was a German light cavalry regiment of the French Armée...
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    25 November 1795 he obtained a captain's commission in the regiment Hompesch Hussars that was sent to fight in the West Indies. He transferred to a regiment...
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    with 6,000 men and then sent part of the reserve with Baron Charles de Hompesch to capture Rosetta. He then advanced to Cairo, which he reached, after...
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    Dragoons (one troop) 53 12th Light Dragoons 474 26th Light Dragoons 369 Hompesch's Hussars 138 Artillery Brigadier-General Robert Lawson 13th Artillery Company...
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  • the British Army, serving in Hompesch's Hussars, a unit of foreign-born troops. In 1796 he helped to establish Hompesch's Light Infantry, which later became...
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    Dragoons 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Light Dragoons 26th Light Dragoons Hompesch's Hussars (3 Sqns) Infantry Division Guards Brigade, commanded by Major General...
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  • under Sir John Moore, together with La Tour's Royal Foreigners and Hompesch's hussars. The Corps embarked for the West indies in March 1796 and arrived...
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  • led by a new generation of cavalry commanders such as Reinhard Vincent Hompesch and Grovestins, Dutch horsemen no longer allowed themselves to be intimidated...
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    Churchill), four squadrons of Irvine's York Hussars and two squadrons each of Hompesch and Choiseul Hussars. Nearby outposts consisted of the Hesse-Kassel...
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    the Hussars 800 paces away. According to a memory, the Croatian guns were deployed behind the cavalry's cover, and that is why the Hungarian hussars were...
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