The 7th Hussar Regiment (7e régiment de hussards) was a regiment of hussar

Hussar

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s in the French Army

French Army

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. Its most notable commanders were Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais

Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais

Pierre David Édouard de Colbert-Chabanais was a general of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his unbreakable loyalty to Napoleon I.-Revolution:...

 and (during the Hundred Days

Hundred Days

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) Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin de Marbot.
It was set up as the 8th Hussar Regiment or the hussards de Lamothe on 23 November 1792 as part of the French Revolutionary Army

French Revolutionary Army

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. It was promoted to 7th Hussar Regiment on 4 June 1793 in the wake of the 4th Hussar Regiment

Hussards de Saxe

The Régiment des Hussards de Saxe was a cavalry unit set up in France under the Ancien Régime in 1741 as the Chasseurs de Fischer. In 1761 it was renamed the Dragons-Chasseurs de Conflans, in 1763 the Légion de Conflans and in 1776 it finally became a hussar regiment, being renamed the...

's defection. In 1814 it was renamed the régiment de hussards d'Orléans and on the Bourbon Restoration

Bourbon Restoration

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 it took the name Colonel-général des hussards, briefly reverting to 7th Hussar Regiment during the Hundred Days before being disbanded in November 1815. In 1840 it was re-formed as the 7th Hussar Regiment out of elements of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 12th Mounted Chasseur Regiments and of the 5th Hussar Regiment. It was finally disbanded in 1928 (other than being briefly re-formed from 1956 to 1959 as the 7th Hussar Regiment for the Algerian War).

Commanders

• 1792 : Colonel Lamothe
• 1794 : Chef de Brigade Van Marisy
• 1797 : chef de Brigade Champeaux
• 1803 : Colonel Rapp
• 1803 : Colonel Marx
• 1807 : Colonel Colbert-Chabanais
  Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais
  Pierre David Édouard de Colbert-Chabanais was a general of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his unbreakable loyalty to Napoleon I.-Revolution:...
  
  
• 1809 : Colonel Domon
• 1809 : Colonel de Custines
• 1810 : Colonel Eulner
• 1814 : Colonel de Marbot

• 1840 : Colonel de Grouchy
• 1847 : Colonel Grenier
• 1857 : Colonel Fénis de Lacombe
• 1865 : Colonel Chaussée
• 1872 : Colonel prince de Bauffremont
• 1876 : Colonel Des Roys
• 1876 : Colonel Durdilly
• 1878 : Colonel Bruneau
• 1884 : Colonel Massiet
• 1891 : Colonel Mulotte
• 1894 : Colonel de Vergennes
• 1896 : Colonel Buffet

• 1914 : Colonel Lesieur-Desbrières
• November 1st, 1914 : Colonel Simon
• October 12th, 1915 - March 27th, 1917: Colonel Jouinot-Gambetta
• 1917 : Colonel Langlois
• 1918 : Colonel Clorus