The Chevalier Guard regiment was a Russia

Russia

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n heavy cavalry guard regiment, created in 1800 by the reformation of the Chevalier Guard corps, itself created in 1764 by Catherine the Great. As other Russian heavy cavalry guard regiments (the Life-Guards Horse Regiment, His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment, and Her Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment), the Chevalier Guards were equipped as cuirassiers (with some differences in uniform and equipment from army cuirassiers and other guard cuirassier regiments).

Campaigns

• 1805 - The regiment first saw combat in the Battle of Austerlitz
  Battle of Austerlitz
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  , in which it fought bravely, covering the retreat of units from the Preobrazhensky
  Preobrazhensky
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   and Semyonovsky
  Semyonovsky
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   regiments of the Russian guard infantry. The Chevalier Guards were countercharged and defeated by the French Horse Grenadiers
  Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale
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   of the Old Guard
  Old Guard
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  , who inflicted heavy casualties among the Russians.
• 1807 - Battle of Heilsberg
  Battle of Heilsberg
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• 1812 - The regiment distinguished itself during the Patriotic War
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   of 1812. The Chevalier Guards lost their colonel early in the Battle of Borodino
  Battle of Borodino
  The Battle of Borodino , fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia and all Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties...
  
   but, in concert with the Life Guard Horse Regiment, effectively stopped the decisive charge of Saxon cuirassier regiments and defeated French Horse Carabiniers.
• 1813 - Lützen
  Battle of Lützen (1813)
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  , Kulm
  Battle of Kulm
  The Battle of Kulm was a battle near the town Kulm and the village Přestanov in northern Bohemia. It was fought on 29–30 August 1813, during the War of the Sixth Coalition...
  
  , Leipzig
  Battle of Leipzig
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• 1831 - Polish campaign
  November Uprising
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• 1914 - First World War

The regiment was disbanded in 1918.

Many famous men served as Chevalier Guards, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Denis Davydov

Denis Davydov

Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre – hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado – and spectacularly designed his own life to illustrate such poetry.-Biography:...

, Mikhail Skobelev

Mikhail Skobelev

Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev was a Russian general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. Dressed in white uniform and mounted on a white horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the "White...

, Aleksandr Rodzyanko

Aleksandr Rodzyanko

Aleksandr Pavlovich Rodzyanko , was a lieutenant-general and a corps commander of the White Army during the Russian Civil War.-Biography:...

, Pavlo Skoropadskyi and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

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 among them.

External links

• Russian Imperial Guard
  Russian Imperial Guard
  The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard were military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Russia. Peter the Great founded the first such units following the Prussian practice in the 1690s, to replace the politically-motivated Streltsy.- Organization :The final...
  
  
• Russian Imperial Guard During the Napoleonic Wars