Chasseur (redirect from Chasseurs à cheval)
Belgian light infantry (chasseurs à pied) or light cavalry (chasseurs à cheval) to denote troops trained for rapid action. This branch of the French Army...
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d'Éclaireurs à Cheval was attached to the Grenadiers à Cheval, and was thus named the regiment of Éclaireurs-grenadiers. The 2e Regiment d'Eclaireurs à Cheval was...
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French franc (redirect from Franc à cheval)
secured the king's freedom and showed him on a richly decorated horse earning it the name franc à cheval (meaning "free on horse" in French). The obverse...
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Mounted Carabiniers (France) (redirect from Carabiniers à Cheval)
The Carabiniers-à-Cheval (French for Horse Carabiniers or Mounted Carabiniers) were mounted troops in the service of France. Their origins date back to...
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Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (redirect from Regiment de Grenadiers-à-Cheval de la Garde Impériale)
Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (French: Grenadiers à Cheval de La Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard...
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Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard (redirect from 1st Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale)
left Egypt to return to France, he took with him a detachment of 180 Guides à cheval and 125 Guides à pied. The men chosen were the most devoted veterans...
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regiments, the Chasseurs à Cheval and the Grenadiers à Cheval, along with a small unit of elite Gendarmes and a squadron of Mamelukes. A third regiment was...
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Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval (French pronunciation: [sikst fɛʁ a ʃ(ə)val]; Arpitan: Hi) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes...
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undress uniform was as for the Chasseurs-à-Cheval of the Guard, but of a dark blue cloth. The Gendarmes d'élite wore a blue coat with red lappels, cuffs and...
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Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. A French-Portuguese-Italian-Luxembourgish coproduction...
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