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class="mw-redirect" title="CBRN defence">CBRN defence</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">7 squadrons, 849 personnel (2013)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/3rd_Armored_Division_(France)" title="3rd Armored Division (France)">3rd Division</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Garrison/HQ</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fontevraud-l%27Abbaye" title="Fontevraud-l'Abbaye">Fontevraud-l'Abbaye</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">"Condé-Dragons"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Patron</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Louis,_Grand_Cond%C3%A9" title="Louis, Grand Condé">Louis, Grand Condé</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Motto(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Da materiam splendescam</i><br /> "Give me a chance to shine"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">March</th><td class="infobox-data">"Marche de Condé-Dragons"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Current equipment</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A9hicule_de_l%27Avant_Blind%C3%A9" title="Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé">VAB</a> NBC reconnaissance</li><li><a href="/wiki/VLRA" class="mw-redirect" title="VLRA">VLRA</a> NBC</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Conflicts</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist" style="font-size: 90%"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Thirty Years' War">Thirty Years' War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Franco-Spanish_War_(1635%E2%80%9359)" class="mw-redirect" title="Franco-Spanish War (1635–59)">Franco-Spanish War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Reapers%27_War" title="Reapers' War">Reapers' War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Fronde" class="mw-redirect" title="Fronde">Fronde</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1654%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60)">Anglo-Spanish War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_Devolution" title="War of Devolution">War of Devolution</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Franco-Dutch_War" title="Franco-Dutch War">Franco-Dutch War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Reunions" title="War of the Reunions">War of the Reunions</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War" title="Nine Years' War">War of the League of Augsburg</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">War of the Spanish Succession</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Polish_Succession" title="War of the Polish Succession">War of the Polish Succession</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition" title="War of the First Coalition">War of the First Coalition</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e" title="War in the Vendée">War in the Vendée</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Second_Coalition" title="War of the Second Coalition">War of the Second Coalition</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Third_Coalition" title="War of the Third Coalition">War of the Third Coalition</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Fourth_Coalition" title="War of the Fourth Coalition">War of the Fourth Coalition</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Fifth_Coalition" title="War of the Fifth Coalition">War of the Fifth Coalition</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Sixth_Coalition" title="War of the Sixth Coalition">War of the Sixth Coalition</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hundred_Days" title="Hundred Days">Hundred Days</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hundred_Thousand_Sons_of_Saint_Louis" title="Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis">Spanish Expedition</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">Algerian War</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Decorations</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_1914%E2%80%931918_(France)" title="Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)">Croix de guerre 1914–1918</a></li><li><small>with two palmes and two vermeil stars</small></li><li><a href="/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_1939%E2%80%931945_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)">Croix de guerre 1939–1945</a></li><li><small>with two palmes</small></li><li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9daille_des_%C3%A9vad%C3%A9s" class="mw-redirect" title="Médaille des évadés">Médaille des évadés</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_honour" title="Battle honour">Battle honours</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist" style="font-size: 90%"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valmy" title="Battle of Valmy">Valmy 1792</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Zurich" title="Second Battle of Zurich">Zurich 1799</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hohenlinden" title="Battle of Hohenlinden">Hohenlinden 1800</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz" title="Battle of Austerlitz">Austerlitz 1805</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Jena">Iena 1806</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Frontiers" title="Battle of the Frontiers">La Mortagne 1914</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/First_battle_of_Ypres" class="mw-redirect" title="First battle of Ypres">Ypres 1914</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lys_(1918)" title="Battle of the Lys (1918)">Flandres 1918</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Second_battle_of_the_Marne" class="mw-redirect" title="Second battle of the Marne">Champagne 1918</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Autun" title="Autun">Autun</a> 1944</li><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Forest" title="Black Forest">Forêt-Noire</a> 1945</li><li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">AFN 1952–1962</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.defense.gouv.fr/terre/presentation/organisation-des-forces/arme-blindee-cavalerie/2e-regiment-de-dragons">www.defense.gouv.fr/terre</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Current<br />commander</th><td class="infobox-data">Lieutenant-Colonel Olivier Lion</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Notable<br />commanders</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Bouton_de_Chamilly" title="Noël Bouton de Chamilly">Noël Bouton de Chamilly</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Henri,_Duke_of_Bourbon" title="Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon">Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_de_Grouchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmanuel de Grouchy">Emmanuel de Grouchy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Macquart" class="mw-redirect" title="François Macquart">François Macquart</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Arnail_Fran%C3%A7ois,_marquis_de_Jaucourt" title="Arnail François, marquis de Jaucourt">Arnail François de Jaucourt</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Demetz" title="André Demetz">André Demetz</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p>The <b>2nd Dragoon Regiment</b> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">2<sup>e</sup> régiment de dragons, 2<sup>e</sup> RD</i>) is the only NBC Defense Unit of the <a href="/wiki/French_Army" title="French Army">French Army</a>, stationed at <a href="/wiki/Fontevraud-l%27Abbaye" title="Fontevraud-l'Abbaye">Fontevraud-l'Abbaye</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Saumur" title="Saumur">Saumur</a> in <a href="/wiki/Maine-et-Loire" title="Maine-et-Loire">Maine-et-Loire</a>. The current regiment is an amalgamation of the old 2nd Dragoon Regiment and the <i>groupe de défense NBC</i>, which took effect in July 2005. It incorporates the capabilities of the previous 2nd Dragoons, which was specialised as a <a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance" title="Reconnaissance">reconnaissance</a> unit, in a new mission as the sole French Army unit dedicated to combatting <a href="/wiki/CBRN_defence" class="mw-redirect" title="CBRN defence">chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons</a>. </p><p>Despite the recent formation of the regiment in its current configuration, it is the oldest French cavalry regiment, dating back to 1556. The regiment found fame as the personal regiment of <a href="/wiki/Louis,_Grand_Cond%C3%A9" title="Louis, Grand Condé">Louis, Duke of Enghien</a> and later Prince of Condé, from 1635 to 1686; in honour of the "Grand Condé", it is still called the "<i>Condé-Dragons</i>". The <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a> gave it the designation of the second regiment of <a href="/wiki/Dragoon" title="Dragoon">dragoons</a> in the French Army, and with brief interruptions it has served under this name in successive French armies ever since. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2e_dragon_-_d%C3%A9tail.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/2e_dragon_-_d%C3%A9tail.PNG/250px-2e_dragon_-_d%C3%A9tail.PNG" decoding="async" width="250" height="419" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/2e_dragon_-_d%C3%A9tail.PNG/375px-2e_dragon_-_d%C3%A9tail.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/2e_dragon_-_d%C3%A9tail.PNG 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="671" /></a><figcaption>A detail of painting of a Napoleonic-era dragoon of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment by <a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Detaille" title="Édouard Detaille">Édouard Detaille</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancien_Régime"><span id="Ancien_R.C3.A9gime"></span>Ancien Régime</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ancien Régime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Origins_and_the_Grand_Condé"><span id="Origins_and_the_Grand_Cond.C3.A9"></span>Origins and the Grand Condé</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Origins and the Grand Condé"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Le_Grand_Cond%C3%A9_en_1662.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Le_Grand_Cond%C3%A9_en_1662.jpg/170px-Le_Grand_Cond%C3%A9_en_1662.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Le_Grand_Cond%C3%A9_en_1662.jpg/255px-Le_Grand_Cond%C3%A9_en_1662.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Le_Grand_Cond%C3%A9_en_1662.jpg/340px-Le_Grand_Cond%C3%A9_en_1662.jpg 2x" data-file-width="511" data-file-height="634" /></a><figcaption>Louis, Grand Condé (1662)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1690.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1690.jpg/250px-Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1690.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1690.jpg/330px-Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1690.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1690.jpg/500px-Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1690.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1630" data-file-height="2207" /></a><figcaption>A cavalier of the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> in 1690</figcaption></figure> <p>The 2nd Dragoons trace their lineage to the formation of a <i><a href="/wiki/Compagnie_d%27ordonnance" title="Compagnie d'ordonnance">compagnie d'ordonnance</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Louis,_Prince_of_Cond%C3%A9_(1530%E2%80%931569)" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569)">Louis de Bourbon</a>, head of the <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Cond%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince of Condé">House of Condé</a>, in 1556. At the time it numbered 50 <i><a href="/wiki/Lances_fournies" class="mw-redirect" title="Lances fournies">lances fournies</a></i>—50 knights, plus about 5 supporting men-at-arms each, for a total of about 300 men.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère18857–8_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère18857–8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1635, this company became the <i>Régiment d'Anguien-Cavalerie</i>, after its proprietor <a href="/wiki/Louis,_Grand_Cond%C3%A9" title="Louis, Grand Condé">Louis, Duke of Enghien</a> (the future Grand Condé), one of twelve regiments formed by a royal order of 16 May to fight in the <a href="/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Thirty Years' War">war against the Holy Roman Empire</a>. Enghien appointed the Chevalier de Tavannes as the commander (<i><a href="/wiki/Mestre_de_camp" title="Mestre de camp">mestre de camp</a></i>) of the regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It immediately was sent to serve in the Italian peninsula, where it probably operated as a collection of independent light cavalry companies. In 1636, it was sent to join the French campaign against <a href="/wiki/Franche-Comt%C3%A9" title="Franche-Comté">Franche-Comté</a>, and it participated in the unsuccessful siege of <a href="/wiki/Dole,_Jura" title="Dole, Jura">Dôle</a> that spring. It was reduced to independent companies in July 1636, and restored to a full regiment in January 1638.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sent to fight in the Pyrenees in the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Spanish_War_(1635%E2%80%9359)" class="mw-redirect" title="Franco-Spanish War (1635–59)">war against Spain</a>, the <i>Anguien-Cavalerie</i> participated in the unsuccessful <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fuenterrab%C3%ADa_(1638)" title="Siege of Fuenterrabía (1638)">Siege of Fuenterrabía</a>, during which their commander de Tavannes was killed. Under its new commander the Marquis de Livry, the regiment fought in the successful <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Turin_(1640)" title="Siege of Turin (1640)">Siege of Turin</a> in 1640. Following the siege, the regiment helped take several towns in <a href="/wiki/Piedmont" title="Piedmont">Piedmont</a> for the French, and in 1641 it fought in the siege of <a href="/wiki/Cuneo" title="Cuneo">Coni</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During 1642 to 1643, the regiment fought in the <a href="/wiki/Reapers%27_War" title="Reapers' War">Reapers' War</a> under Marshal <a href="/wiki/Philippe_de_La_Mothe-Houdancourt" title="Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt">Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt</a>, helping gain large sections of the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Catalonia" title="Principality of Catalonia">Principality of Catalonia</a> for the French–Catalan alliance. It joined the Duke of Enghien in Germany in 1644, fighting at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Freiburg" title="Battle of Freiburg">Freiburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Philippsburg_(1644)" title="Siege of Philippsburg (1644)">Philippsburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mainz" title="Mainz">Mainz</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Landau" title="Landau">Landau</a>. At the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_N%C3%B6rdlingen" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Battle of Nördlingen">Second Battle of Nördlingen</a> on 3 August 1645, the Marquis de Livry was killed. The Marquis de Lanques replaced him, and under his command, the regiment was among those at the vain siege of <a href="/wiki/Heilbronn" title="Heilbronn">Heilbronn</a> and the successful capture of <a href="/wiki/Trier" title="Trier">Trier</a>. The regiment was sent to the siege of <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a>, where on 26 December 1646 it was renamed the <i>Régiment de Condé-Cavalerie</i>, after Enghien became Prince of Condé on the death of his father. The <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> was sent to Catalonia for two years, while Prince Louis was assigned to command the French and Catalan forces, where it took part in the unsuccessful second siege of <a href="/wiki/Lleida" title="Lleida">Lleida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fronde_and_exile">Fronde and exile</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Fronde and exile"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In early 1649, the regiment was called to join the blockade of Paris as part of the <a href="/wiki/Fronde" class="mw-redirect" title="Fronde">First Fronde</a>, a rebellion of the French parliament and a section of the nobles, including the Prince of Condé. Little blood was shed in the resolution of the First Fronde, but the outbreak of the Second Fronde meant that the regiment was sent into battle against royalist forces again in early 1650, having moved to <a href="/wiki/Berry_(province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Berry (province)">Berry</a>. After the Prince of Condé reconciled with <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_Mazarin" title="Cardinal Mazarin">Cardinal Mazarin</a> and the royal faction in February 1651, the regiment returned to the royal army. This only lasted until September, when the Prince of Condé was forced to flee France. He became a high commander in the Spanish army, and his regiment of cavalry fought for him as part of Spanish and Lombard forces. During this time, the Prince of Condé commissioned <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Bouton_de_Chamilly" title="Noël Bouton de Chamilly">Noël Bouton de Chamilly</a>, later <a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_France" title="Marshal of France">Marshal of France</a>, into his regiment; he served as its <i>mestre de camp lieutenant</i> in 1667–1682.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Return_to_royal_service">Return to royal service</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Return to royal service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bataille_de_Seneffe_de_B.Gagneraux.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Bataille_de_Seneffe_de_B.Gagneraux.JPG/250px-Bataille_de_Seneffe_de_B.Gagneraux.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Bataille_de_Seneffe_de_B.Gagneraux.JPG/330px-Bataille_de_Seneffe_de_B.Gagneraux.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Bataille_de_Seneffe_de_B.Gagneraux.JPG/500px-Bataille_de_Seneffe_de_B.Gagneraux.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3632" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>A painting by <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9nigne_Gagneraux" title="Bénigne Gagneraux">Bénigne Gagneraux</a> depicting <a href="/wiki/Henri_Jules,_Prince_of_Cond%C3%A9" title="Henri Jules, Prince of Condé">Henri Jules, Duke of Enghien</a> saving his father, the Grand Condé, at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Seneffe" title="Battle of Seneffe">Battle of Seneffe</a> (1674)—a victory in which the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> were crucial, and which brought Condé back into royal favour</figcaption></figure> <p>The regiment returned to royal service on 7 November 1659, following the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Pyrenees" title="Treaty of the Pyrenees">Treaty of the Pyrenees</a>, reduced to a single "colonel's company", belonging to the Prince of Condé. The full regiment was reinstated in December 1665, and in 1667 the regiment took part in the French invasion of the Low Countries as part of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_Devolution" title="War of Devolution">War of Devolution</a>. In 1668 the regiment, now nine companies strong, was part of the Prince of Condé's incursion into Franche-Comté. In May 1668, the regiment was once again reduced to the colonel's company, until the 1671 reorganisation of the cavalry.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The regiment was sent to fight in the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Dutch_War" title="Franco-Dutch War">Dutch War</a> in 1672, taking up winter quarters near <a href="/wiki/Utrecht" title="Utrecht">Utrecht</a>. It fought in the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Maastricht_(1673)" title="Siege of Maastricht (1673)">Siege of Maastricht</a> of June 1673. On 11 August 1674, the regiment had a leading role in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Seneffe" title="Battle of Seneffe">Battle of Seneffe</a>, a victory won by the Grand Condé which restored him to royal favour. In 1675 the regiment took <a href="/wiki/Dinant" title="Dinant">Dinant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Huy" title="Huy">Huy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Limbourg" title="Limbourg">Limbourg</a>, and spent 1676 campaigning in the <a href="/wiki/Saar_(river)" title="Saar (river)">Saar</a> valley and concluded the war fighting in the <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/bataille_de_Kokersberg" class="extiw" title="fr:bataille de Kokersberg">Battle of Kokersberg</a> in 1677.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After being stationed in northern France in <a href="/wiki/Artois" title="Artois">Artois</a> and on the <a href="/wiki/Sa%C3%B4ne" title="Saône">Saône</a>, the regiment was sent to fight in Catalonia in the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Reunions" title="War of the Reunions">War of the Reunions</a>, fighting along the river <a href="/wiki/Ter_(river)" title="Ter (river)">Ter</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Bernardin_Gigault_de_Bellefonds" title="Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds">Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds</a>' siege of <a href="/wiki/Gerona,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerona, Spain">Gerona</a>. The Grand Condé died on 11 December 1688, leaving his princely title and regiments to his son <a href="/wiki/Henri_Jules,_Prince_of_Cond%C3%A9" title="Henri Jules, Prince of Condé">Henri Jules</a>. The regiment had been sent east already, where it fought in all the campaigns of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_League_of_Augsburg" class="mw-redirect" title="War of the League of Augsburg">War of the League of Augsburg</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/Moselle" title="Moselle">Moselle</a>, and on the <a href="/wiki/Rhine" title="Rhine">Rhine</a>. It fought with distinction at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fleurus_(1690)" title="Battle of Fleurus (1690)">Battle of Fleurus</a> on 1 July 1690 and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Landen" title="Battle of Landen">Battle of Neerwinden</a> on 29 July 1693, and fought in the 1697 siege of <a href="/wiki/Ath" title="Ath">Ath</a>, the final battle of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="After_the_Grand_Condé"><span id="After_the_Grand_Cond.C3.A9"></span>After the Grand Condé</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: After the Grand Condé"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1724.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1724.jpg/250px-Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1724.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1724.jpg/330px-Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1724.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1724.jpg/500px-Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie_1724.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1621" data-file-height="2216" /></a><figcaption>A cavalier of the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> in 1724</figcaption></figure> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">War of the Spanish Succession</a>, the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> fought in the Flemish and Rhine campaigns of 1701, and was present during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Friedlingen" title="Battle of Friedlingen">Battle of Friedlingen</a> in October 1702. In 1703, it fought at the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kehl_(1703)" title="Siege of Kehl (1703)">Siege of Kehl</a> and at the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_H%C3%B6chst%C3%A4dt" title="First Battle of Höchstädt">Battle of Hochstedt</a>. In 1704, the regiment fought at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Blenheim" title="Battle of Blenheim">Battle of Blenheim</a>, a disgraceful defeat for the French. It continued to fight in Flanders and the Rhine valley for the rest of the war. In 1709, title to the regiment passed to <a href="/wiki/Louis_Henri,_Duke_of_Bourbon" title="Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon">Louis Henri, Prince of Condé and Duke of Bourbon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Polish_Succession" title="War of the Polish Succession">War of the Polish Succession</a> in 1733, the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> was sent to the Rhine valley, where it fought at the sieges of <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kehl_(1733)" title="Siege of Kehl (1733)">Kehl</a> and <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Philippsburg_(1734)" title="Siege of Philippsburg (1734)">Philippsburg</a>, and the battles of Ettlingen and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Clausen" title="Battle of Clausen">Clausen</a>. After the war, the regiment was based in <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a>, with its main center of operations at <a href="/wiki/Lamballe" title="Lamballe">Lamballe</a>. During this time, the regiment passed to <a href="/wiki/Louis_Joseph,_Prince_of_Cond%C3%A9" title="Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé">Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé</a> on the death of Louis Henri in 1740.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early years of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a>, the regiment served in <a href="/wiki/Westphalia" title="Westphalia">Westphalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bohemia" title="Kingdom of Bohemia">Bohemia</a> until its return to France in July 1743. It was then sent to <a href="/wiki/Alsace" title="Alsace">Alsace</a> to serve as part of Marshal <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Franquetot_de_Coigny" title="François de Franquetot de Coigny">François de Franquetot de Coigny</a>'s army, overwintering at <a href="/wiki/Dijon" title="Dijon">Dijon</a> before being sent to the garrison of <a href="/wiki/Belfort" title="Belfort">Belfort</a>. It then participated in the taking of <a href="/wiki/Wissembourg" title="Wissembourg">Wissembourg</a>, and in the defense of the <a href="/wiki/Lines_of_Wissembourg" class="mw-redirect" title="Lines of Wissembourg">lines of the Lauter</a>, and then the takings of <a href="/wiki/Auenheim" title="Auenheim">Augenheim</a> and Philippsburg. After overwintering in <a href="/wiki/Pontarlier" title="Pontarlier">Pontarlier</a>, the regiment was part of the taking of Kronembourg near <a href="/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a> in 1745. Called to Flanders in 1746, it figured in the siege of Mons and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rocoux" title="Battle of Rocoux">battle of Rocoux</a>. It fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lauffeld" title="Battle of Lauffeld">battle of Lauffeld</a> in 1747, and the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Maastricht_(1748)" title="Siege of Maastricht (1748)">siege of Maastricht</a> in 1748, at the end of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cond%C3%A9-Dragons_1786.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Cond%C3%A9-Dragons_1786.jpg/250px-Cond%C3%A9-Dragons_1786.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Cond%C3%A9-Dragons_1786.jpg/330px-Cond%C3%A9-Dragons_1786.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Cond%C3%A9-Dragons_1786.jpg/500px-Cond%C3%A9-Dragons_1786.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1605" data-file-height="2195" /></a><figcaption>A dragoon of the <i>Condé-Dragons</i> in 1786</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the War of the Austrian Succession, the regiment was stationed in various towns in northern and eastern France and Westphalia. During the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>, the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> served in Germany under Marshals <a href="/wiki/Louis_Charles_C%C3%A9sar_Le_Tellier" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis Charles César Le Tellier">Louis d'Estrées</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Rohan-Soubise" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles de Rohan-Soubise">Charles de Rohan-Soubise</a>. In 1757, they fought at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hastenbeck" title="Battle of Hastenbeck">Battle of Hastenbeck</a> on 26 July, and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rossbach" title="Battle of Rossbach">Battle of Rossbach</a> on 5 November, where the French were resoundingly defeated by an inferior force but the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> were praised for their steadfastness. At the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Krefeld" title="Battle of Krefeld">Battle of Krefeld</a> on 23 June 1758, the men of the regiment fought fiercely, and helped put up a strong fighting retreat after the French defeat.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère188583–84_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère188583–84-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After 1762, the regiment continued to be moved between garrisons mostly in the north and east of France, until the Revolution. At Lille in March 1763, the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> was reorganised, partly through the incorporation of the former <i>Régiment de Toulouse-Lautrec</i> into it. The brilliant <a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a> of that regiment, the Count of Toulouse-Lautrec, had previously been chosen to serve as the <i>mestre de camp lieutenant</i> of the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While based at Hesdin in 1776, the regiment was designated as a unit of <a href="/wiki/Dragoon" title="Dragoon">dragoons</a>, the <i>Régiment de Condé-Dragons</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a name which still is the nickname of the regiment today.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time the 3rd Squadron of the <i>Chasseurs de la Legion de Lorraine</i> was incorporated into its ranks.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revolutionary_Wars">Revolutionary Wars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Revolutionary Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a> began, the colonel of the <i>Condé-Dragons</i> was <a href="/wiki/Arnail_Fran%C3%A7ois,_marquis_de_Jaucourt" title="Arnail François, marquis de Jaucourt">François Jaucourt</a>, who favoured the revolution and ended up joining the moderate <a href="/wiki/Feuillant_(political_group)" title="Feuillant (political group)">Feuillant faction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 31 August 1791, the regiment was one of the regular units called upon to suppress the <a href="/wiki/Nancy_affair" title="Nancy affair">Nancy Mutiny</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère188589_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère188589-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 January 1792, all the regiments of the French Army were given numbers in place of the names of their aristocratic patrons. The <i>Condé-Dragons</i> were designated the second-most senior dragoon regiment, and became the <i>2<sup>e</sup> régiment de dragons</i>, even though they had been the eleventh-most senior dragoon regiment prior.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around this time, Jaucourt went into exile and command of the regiment briefly passed to Colonel <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_de_Grouchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmanuel de Grouchy">Emmanuel de Grouchy</a>, a future Marshal of France. </p><p>With the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition" title="War of the First Coalition">War of the First Coalition</a> in 1792, the 2nd Dragoons were assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Centre" title="Army of the Centre">Army of the Centre</a>. After participating in the defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Prussian_Army" title="Prussian Army">Prussian Army</a> in a number of small actions and then at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valmy" title="Battle of Valmy">Battle of Valmy</a> on 20 September, they were assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Ardennes" title="Army of the Ardennes">Army of the Ardennes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère188590–93_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère188590–93-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2nd Dragoons were reported to have fought brilliantly at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Neerwinden_(1793)" title="Battle of Neerwinden (1793)">Battle of Neerwinden</a> on 13 March 1793, but owing to the lack of training of most of the French infantry, the battle was a defeat and resulted in the loss of the Low Countries by France. That year the regiment also fought at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wattignies" title="Battle of Wattignies">Wattignies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Cholet" title="Second Battle of Cholet">Cholet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the Flanders campaign, the 2nd Dragoons were sent to put down the <a href="/wiki/Revolt_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolt in the Vendée">revolt in the Vendée</a> in late 1793. After seeing service in the Vendée, the regiment was given garrison duties, and was probably split into two detachments, one in <a href="/wiki/Douai" title="Douai">Douai</a> and the other in west-central France.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In late 1795, the 2nd Dragoons were assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_Sambre-et-Meuse" class="mw-redirect" title="Army of Sambre-et-Meuse">Army of Sambre-et-Meuse</a>, which was being prepared for a crossing of the Rhine the following year. At the time, the regiment was recorded having the strength of 485 horses.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment distinguished themselves in the campaign of 1796, particularly at the <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/bataille_de_Siegburg" class="extiw" title="fr:bataille de Siegburg">Battle of Siegburg</a> in June and the <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/combat_de_Bamberg" class="extiw" title="fr:combat de Bamberg">taking of Bamberg</a> in August. In 1797, the regiment was made part of the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_West_(1793)" class="mw-redirect" title="Army of the West (1793)">Army of the West</a> and then the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_Mainz" title="Army of Mainz">Army of Mainz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the start of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Second_Coalition" title="War of the Second Coalition">War of the Second Coalition</a> in 1798, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment fought in southwestern Germany as part of the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Danube" title="Army of the Danube">Army of the Danube</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1799, it fought in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Zurich" title="Second Battle of Zurich">Second Battle of Zurich</a>, earning itself a battle honour.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1800, the regiment was part of the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Rhine_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Army of the Rhine (France)">Army of the Rhine</a>, in Marshal <a href="/wiki/Laurent_de_Gouvion_Saint-Cyr" title="Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr">Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr</a>'s Centre Corps, fighting at the battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Biberach_(1800)" title="Battle of Biberach (1800)">Biberach</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hohenlinden" title="Battle of Hohenlinden">Hohenlinden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1801 to 1805, the regiment was stationed at towns in the <a href="/wiki/County_of_Flanders" title="County of Flanders">Flanders region</a> and <a href="/wiki/Picardy" title="Picardy">Picardy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Napoleonic_Wars">Napoleonic Wars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Napoleonic Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Early_victories">Early victories</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Early victories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Les_Marechal-de-logis_Humbert_et_le_Dragon_Fauveau_sur_Iena.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Les_Marechal-de-logis_Humbert_et_le_Dragon_Fauveau_sur_Iena.jpg/220px-Les_Marechal-de-logis_Humbert_et_le_Dragon_Fauveau_sur_Iena.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Les_Marechal-de-logis_Humbert_et_le_Dragon_Fauveau_sur_Iena.jpg/330px-Les_Marechal-de-logis_Humbert_et_le_Dragon_Fauveau_sur_Iena.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Les_Marechal-de-logis_Humbert_et_le_Dragon_Fauveau_sur_Iena.jpg/440px-Les_Marechal-de-logis_Humbert_et_le_Dragon_Fauveau_sur_Iena.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1888" data-file-height="1123" /></a><figcaption>Maréchal-de-logis Humbert and Dragoon Fauveau taking a Prussian officer prisoner at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Jena">Battle of Jena</a>. Both were awarded the <a href="/wiki/Legion_d%27honneur" class="mw-redirect" title="Legion d'honneur">Legion d'honneur</a> after the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmbert185125_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAmbert185125-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1805 the 2nd Dragoon Regiment was made part of the 1st Dragoon Division (commanded by General of Division <a href="/wiki/Louis_Klein" title="Louis Klein">Louis Klein</a>) of Marshal <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Murat" title="Joachim Murat">Joachim Murat</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Reserve_Cavalry_Corps_(Grande_Arm%C3%A9e)" title="Reserve Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée)">Reserve Cavalry Corps</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Grande_Arm%C3%A9e" title="Grande Armée">Grande Armée</a> of <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon I">Napoleon I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Det114_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Det114-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The First Empire gave them scarlet as their distinguishing colour on their facings and coat lapels, which they shared with the 1st through 6th Dragoons.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the autumn of 1805, the regiment and the rest of Klein's division was part of the remarkably successful <a href="/wiki/Ulm_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulm Campaign">Ulm Campaign</a>, fighting at the battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wertingen" title="Battle of Wertingen">Wertingen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Albeck" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Albeck">Albeck</a> on 8 and 11 October, at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ulm" title="Battle of Ulm">Battle of Ulm</a> a week later, and at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz" title="Battle of Austerlitz">Battle of Austerlitz</a> on 20 November. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Fourth_Coalition" title="War of the Fourth Coalition">War of the Fourth Coalition</a>, the regiment fought at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Jena">Battle of Jena</a> on 14 October 1806, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Golymin" title="Battle of Golymin">Battle of Golymin</a> on 26 December that year, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Eylau" title="Battle of Eylau">Battle of Eylau</a> on 7–8 February 1807 (including Marshal Murat's colossal cavalry charge), the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Heilsberg" title="Battle of Heilsberg">Battle of Heilsberg</a> on 10 June, and the eventual victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Friedland" title="Battle of Friedland">Battle of Friedland</a> on 14 June. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Peninsular_War">Peninsular War</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Peninsular War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1808 to 1813, the regiment and the rest of the 1st Dragoon Division (now under General of Division <a href="/wiki/Victor_de_Fay_de_La_Tour-Maubourg" title="Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg">Victor Latour-Mabourg</a>) along with much of the Reserve Cavalry Corps (under <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Bessi%C3%A8res" title="Jean-Baptiste Bessières">Jean-Baptiste Bessières</a>) served in the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular Campaign</a>. There, they fought many small skirmishes with the Spanish, and saw action in several major battles. They began their campaign at the <a href="/wiki/First_Siege_of_Zaragoza" class="mw-redirect" title="First Siege of Zaragoza">First Siege of Zaragoza</a> in the summer of 1808, followed by the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tudela" title="Battle of Tudela">Battle of Tudela</a> on 23 November. In 1809, they fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ucl%C3%A9s_(1809)" title="Battle of Uclés (1809)">Battle of Uclés</a> on 13 January, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Medell%C3%ADn" title="Battle of Medellín">Battle of Medellín</a> on 28 March, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Talavera" title="Battle of Talavera">Battle of Talavera</a> on 27–28 July, and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Almonacid" title="Battle of Almonacid">Battle of Almonacid</a> on 11 August. On 27 September 1810, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment fought at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bussaco" title="Battle of Bussaco">Battle of Bussaco</a>, in 1811 it fought at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Barrosa" title="Battle of Barrosa">Battle of Chiclana</a> on 5 March and the siege of <a href="/wiki/Elvas" title="Elvas">Elvas</a> later that year, and on 21 June 1813 it fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vitoria" title="Battle of Vitoria">Battle of Vitoria</a>. A small detachment served in the <a href="/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia" title="French invasion of Russia">French invasion of Russia</a> in 1812 as part of Marshal <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Augereau" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Augereau">Pierre Augereau</a>'s reserve <a href="/wiki/XI_Corps_(Grande_Arm%C3%A9e)" title="XI Corps (Grande Armée)">XI Corps</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Det114_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Det114-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fall_of_Napoleon">Fall of Napoleon</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Fall of Napoleon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dragoons_and_trumpeter.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Dragoons_and_trumpeter.JPG/250px-Dragoons_and_trumpeter.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Dragoons_and_trumpeter.JPG/330px-Dragoons_and_trumpeter.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Dragoons_and_trumpeter.JPG/500px-Dragoons_and_trumpeter.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1042" data-file-height="871" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Historical_reenactor" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical reenactor">Historical reenactors</a> wearing the Napoleonic-era uniform of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment, including a trumpeter with reversed colour.</figcaption></figure> <p>The regiment joined in the <a href="/wiki/German_Campaign_of_1813" class="mw-redirect" title="German Campaign of 1813">German Campaign of 1813</a>. It fought in the siege of <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg" title="Königsberg">Königsberg</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig" title="Battle of Leipzig">Battle of Leipzig</a> of 16–19 October, and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hanau" title="Battle of Hanau">Battle of Hanau</a> of 30–31 October. In late 1813 it was assigned to the French corps d'observation in Bavaria, and then the <a href="/wiki/V_Corps_(Grande_Arm%C3%A9e)" title="V Corps (Grande Armée)">V Corps</a> when the corps was sent to reinforce the garrison of <a href="/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig_(Napoleonic)" title="Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic)">Danzig</a>, then under a <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Danzig_(1813)" title="Siege of Danzig (1813)">siege by a Russo-Prussian army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/1814_campaign_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="1814 campaign in France">Campaign of France</a> in early 1814, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment fought in an action at <a href="/wiki/Rambervillers" title="Rambervillers">Rambervillers</a>, at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brienne" title="Battle of Brienne">Battle of Brienne</a> on 29 January, and at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Saint-Dizier" title="Battle of Saint-Dizier">Battle of Saint-Dizier</a> on 26 March. That year, the regiment incorporated 25 survivors from the <i>Compagnie des Guides-interprètes</i> (the predecessors of the later French corps of <i><a href="/wiki/Military_interpreter_(France)" title="Military interpreter (France)">Interprètes Militaires</a></i> or military interpreters), which was first formed at Boulogne in 1803 in preparation for <a href="/wiki/Napoleon%27s_planned_invasion_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom">Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hundred_Days_and_Restorations">Hundred Days and Restorations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Hundred Days and Restorations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the return of the regiment from Germany in 1814 following the <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Restoration_in_France#First_Restoration_(1814)" title="Bourbon Restoration in France">First Bourbon Restoration</a>, it went to Paris and received the title of <i>dragons du Roi</i>, as the most senior regiment of dragoons (the previous 1st Dragoon Regiment now was a regiment of <i><a href="/wiki/Lancers" class="mw-redirect" title="Lancers">chevau-légers lanciers</a></i>). Following Napoleon's return to France, it returned to its previous name and number on 23 April 1815.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Days" title="Hundred Days">Hundred Days</a>, the regiment was initially part of the 4th Reserve Cavalry Division. In the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_North_(France)" title="Army of the North (France)">Army of the North</a>'s Belgian campaign, it was part of the 11th Cavalry Division, in Marshal <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89tienne_de_Kellermann" title="François Étienne de Kellermann">François Étienne de Kellermann</a>'s III Reserve Cavalry Corps. During the retreat following the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">battle of Waterloo</a>, the 2nd Dragoons attacked and defeated a Prussian force in a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Skirmish_at_Sentis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Skirmish at Sentis (page does not exist)">skirmish at Sentis</a>. After Napoleon's surrender, it joined the many units camped out in the <a href="/wiki/Loire" title="Loire">Loire</a> valley while a new settlement between the coalition and the Bourbons was made. The regiment was dissolved on 4 December 1815, after the <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Restoration_in_France#Second_Restoration_(1815)" title="Bourbon Restoration in France">Second Bourbon Restoration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bourbon_Restoration_and_July_Monarchy">Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1838.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1838.jpg/250px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1838.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1838.jpg/330px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1838.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1838.jpg/500px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1838.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1615" data-file-height="2188" /></a><figcaption>A dragoon of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment in 1838</figcaption></figure> <p>On 29 December 1815, the regiment was re-formed with the same men and officers, and named the <i>régiment de dragons du Doubs</i>, again the second-most senior dragoon regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>dragons de Doubs</i> were given a new uniform and headgear, with scarlet facings and green cuffs as their distinguishing colours.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The men of the regiment remained openly sympathetic to Bonapartism, including its first commander after the Restoration, Colonel François-Joseph Planzeaux, who gave a speech at his first review of the regiment praising the deeds of the "2nd Dragoons of the Empire, a regiment beyond reproach…the immortal dragoons of Spain."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885127–128_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885127–128-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1816, Planzeaux was accused of participating in a Bonapartist conspiracy and discharged from the army.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1823, the regiment was part of the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Thousand_Sons_of_Saint_Louis" title="Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis">Spanish Expedition</a> (known as the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis"), the French force sent to defeat the liberals of the <a href="/wiki/Trienio_Liberal" title="Trienio Liberal">Trienio Liberal</a> and restore the absolute power of <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferdinand VII of Spain">Ferdinand VII</a>. It was part of General of Division Bertrand Castex's 1st Dragoon Division, in Marshal <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Oudinot" title="Nicolas Oudinot">Nicolas Oudinot</a>'s I Corps.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/July_Monarchy" title="July Monarchy">July Monarchy</a>, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment dropped the name <i>Doubs</i>, and was among several that were favoured by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I" title="Louis Philippe I">Louis Philippe I</a>, and called to the maneuvers and festivities at his camp at <a href="/wiki/Compi%C3%A8gne" title="Compiègne">Compiègne</a> every two years.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1832, it participated in the suppression of the <a href="/wiki/June_Rebellion" title="June Rebellion">June Rebellion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885166_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885166-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles-Marie-Augustin_de_Goyon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles-Marie-Augustin de Goyon (page does not exist)">Charles-Marie-Augustin de Goyon</a>, who would be a senior general of the Second Empire, served as its colonel from 1846 to 1850. Under de Goyon, the regiment earned the nickname of "<i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demoiselle" class="extiw" title="wikt:demoiselle">demoiselles</a> de Goyon</i>", owing to his high standards for drill and dress.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885143_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885143-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution_of_1848" title="French Revolution of 1848">1848 Revolution</a>, the officers of the regiment kept their men calm and disciplined, much to the relief of the citizens of its garrison town of <a href="/wiki/Beauvais" title="Beauvais">Beauvais</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885141–142_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885141–142-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_Republic_and_Second_Empire">Second Republic and Second Empire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Second Republic and Second Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1853.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1853.jpg/250px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1853.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1853.jpg/330px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1853.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1853.jpg/500px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1853.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1606" data-file-height="2196" /></a><figcaption>The 2nd Dragoon Regiment in 1853</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/French_Second_Republic" title="French Second Republic">Second Republic</a>, the regiment was ordered to Paris in May. There it helped protect the new government from working-class revolutionaries during the seizure of the <a href="/wiki/Palais_Bourbon" title="Palais Bourbon">Palais Bourbon</a> in May and the <a href="/wiki/June_Days_Uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="June Days Uprising">June Days Uprising</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885141–142_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885141–142-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Second_French_Empire" title="Second French Empire">Second French Empire</a>, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment was given orange as a distinguishing colour, until all of the dragoon regiments lost their distinguishing colours in 1862.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 1854, while the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a> was ongoing, a detachment of half a squadron of the 2nd Dragoons was sent to the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Greece" title="Kingdom of Greece">Kingdom of Greece</a>, where it attempted to control the local "bandits" for about a year.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1865, Baron <a href="/w/index.php?title=Joachim_Ambert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joachim Ambert (page does not exist)">Joachim Ambert</a> was appointed the colonel of the regiment, a role in which he served until 1873.<sup id="cite_ref-Det156_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Det156-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a> of 1870, the regiment was part of the 2nd Brigade of General of Division <a href="/w/index.php?title=Georges_Eug%C3%A8ne_Blanchard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georges Eugène Blanchard (page does not exist)">Georges Eugène Blanchard</a>'s <a href="/wiki/III_Corps_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="III Corps (France)">III Corps</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Det156_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Det156-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After its arrival at the front on 8 August, it protected baggage trains in the retreat to <a href="/wiki/Metz" title="Metz">Metz</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Forbach-Spicheren" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Forbach-Spicheren">Battle of Forbach-Spicheren</a>, before serving in a reconnaissance role, and facing the Prussians at the battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Borny%E2%80%93Colombey" title="Battle of Borny–Colombey">Borney–Colombey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mars-la-Tour" title="Battle of Mars-la-Tour">Mars-la-Tour</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Noisseville" title="Battle of Noisseville">Noiseville</a>. Most of the regiment was briefly taken prisoner by the Prussians on 29 October.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885153–156_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885153–156-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the defeat of the Second Empire, the remaining troops of the regular army were called upon by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_National_Defense" title="Government of National Defense">Government of National Defense</a> to the defense of Paris from the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Paris_(1870%E2%80%9371)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Paris (1870–71)">Prussian siege</a>, but they were scattered and disorganised, and had to be organised into provisional regiments (<i>regiments de marche</i>). The troops who had not been captured, including the depot and a squadron of new recruits, were in the 4th and 6th dragoon and 11th mixed cavalry <i>regiments de marche</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time a peace with Prussia was reached in May 1871, most of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment's complement was gathered together, as the 2nd dragoon <i>regiment de marche</i>, and was called upon to aid in the government's suppression of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Commune" title="Paris Commune">Paris Commune</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Belle_Époque"><span id="Belle_.C3.89poque"></span>Belle Époque</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Belle Époque"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1873.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1873.jpg/170px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1873.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1873.jpg/255px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1873.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1873.jpg/340px-2e_R%C3%A9giment_de_Dragons_1873.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1561" data-file-height="2120" /></a><figcaption>A trumpeter and NCO of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment in 1873</figcaption></figure> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque" title="Belle Époque">Belle Époque</a> era of the <a href="/wiki/French_Third_Republic" title="French Third Republic">Third Republic</a>, between 1871 and the start of war in 1914, the regiment was based in <a href="/wiki/Chartres" title="Chartres">Chartres</a>, and then <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885161–162_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruyère1885161–162-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_I">World War I</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: World War I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the start of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, the regiment was based in <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a>. In early September 1914, it fought in the counteroffensive of the Charmes Gap in the <a href="/wiki/Battles_of_the_Frontiers" class="mw-redirect" title="Battles of the Frontiers">Battles of the Frontiers</a>. From mid-October to 2 November, it fought in the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres" title="First Battle of Ypres">First Battle of Ypres</a>. In September 1915, it fought in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Champagne" title="Second Battle of Champagne">Second Battle of Champagne</a>. In 1917, it fought at the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Aisne" title="Second Battle of the Aisne">Second Battle of the Aisne</a>. In March 1918, it participated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lys_(1918)" title="Battle of the Lys (1918)">Battle of the Lys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interbellum">Interbellum</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Interbellum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1930, the regiment was designated a <a href="/wiki/Mechanised_infantry" class="mw-redirect" title="Mechanised infantry">mechanised infantry</a> regiment (with companies of motorcyclists, <a href="/wiki/Sidecar" title="Sidecar">sidecars</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Half-track" title="Half-track">half-tracks</a>), and renamed the 2nd Motorised Dragoon Battalion (<i>2<sup>e</sup> bataillon de dragons portés</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Phony_War_and_Battle_of_France">Phony War and Battle of France</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Phony War and Battle of France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 1 December 1939, the unit was redesignated as the 2nd Motorised Dragoon Regiment, with two battalions. During the early stages of the war, they made up the 13th Light Mechanised Brigade, along with the <i>3e régiment d'automitrailleuses</i>. In February 1940, this brigade was attached to the 3rd Light Cavalry Division, in the <a href="/wiki/Third_Army_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Army (France)">Third Army</a>. The first battalion was stationed at <a href="/wiki/Russange" title="Russange">Russange</a> and the second at <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9dange" title="Rédange">Rédange</a>. After the German <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Luxembourg" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Luxembourg">invasion of Luxembourg</a> began on 9 May, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment and the rest of the 3rd Light Cavalry Division briefly entered into Luxembourg on 10 May in an attempt to slow the Germans by destroying key infrastructure.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a>, the regiment fought in the attempts to slow the German advance from 24 to 31 May and from 5–7 June, including at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Abbeville" title="Battle of Abbeville">Battle of Abbeville</a>. It was in a fighting retreat until 17 June.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Vichy_France_and_escape">Vichy France and escape</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Vichy France and escape"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After France surrendered on 22 June, the regiment's survivors were brought together at <a href="/wiki/Auch" title="Auch">Auch</a> in <a href="/wiki/Gers" title="Gers">Gers</a> department in August 1940, by the army of the <a href="/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy government</a> then ruling southern France. The men were formed into two horse-mounted squadrons, three squadrons of cyclists, an <a href="/wiki/Armoured_car_(military)" class="mw-redirect" title="Armoured car (military)">armoured car</a> squadron, a signals platoon, and a <a href="/wiki/Fanfare_band" title="Fanfare band">fanfare</a>. Much of their heavier weaponry was well-camouflaged, and hidden whenever Vichy officials or German officers were in the area, as it was officially forbidden for the Vichy military. Their commander, Colonel <a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Schlesser&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guy Schlesser (page does not exist)">Guy Schlesser</a>, was determined they would still have some role to play in defending France. By his speeches and pamphlets, and his encouragement of skiing (at a dedicated chalet near <a href="/wiki/Campan" title="Campan">Campan</a>) and a wide range of sports and other recreation, he kept morale high. Generals sent to inspect the regiment expressed their admiration at its high level of organisation.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late November 1942, Germany began to occupy southern France, under <a href="/wiki/Case_Anton" title="Case Anton">Operation Anton</a>. On 27 November, Germany ordered the dissolution of the Vichy army.<sup id="cite_ref-Montagnon_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Montagnon-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2nd Dragoon Regiment was officially disbanded on 29 November 1942 by its superior officer General <a href="/w/index.php?title=Louis_Gustave_B%C3%A9rard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Louis Gustave Bérard (page does not exist)">Louis Gustave Bérard</a>, commander of the 17th Military Region. At the ceremony of farewell to the regimental standard, Colonel Schlesser gave a dramatic speech in which he proclaimed that "despite [his] determination to resist" he was forced "with tears in [his] eyes and heart full of bitterness, to obey".<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the ceremony he gathered together some officers and non-commissioned officers and made plans to escape the Germans and continue to fight. At Schlesser's instigation, nearly all of the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Dragoons decided to escape and rejoin the fight against Germany, whether by heading for North Africa to join the <a href="/wiki/Free_French_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Free French Army">Free French Army</a> or joining the <a href="/wiki/French_Resistance" title="French Resistance">Resistance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Montagnon_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Montagnon-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MuseeArmee_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MuseeArmee-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although many of the men who headed for North Africa were delayed by imprisonment in neutral Spain, most of them eventually were released and transported to <a href="/wiki/Casablanca" title="Casablanca">Casablanca</a> by Free French merchant vessels.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some men who remained in the Resistance ended up creating the center of resistance in Gers department, while others formed independent cells in the mountains and hid some of the weaponry of the regiment in mines.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The standard of the regiment was hidden in the village of <a href="/wiki/La_Romieu" title="La Romieu">La Romieu</a>, and when Schlesser made plans to re-form the regiment in 1943, he had Captain Robert de Neuchèze, who had remained in the Resistance, bring it to Algiers. He embarked the submarine <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_submarine_Ar%C3%A9thuse_(S635)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="French submarine Aréthuse (S635) (page does not exist)">Aréthuse</a></i> on 29 September at <a href="/wiki/Ramatuelle" title="Ramatuelle">Ramatuelle</a>, and managed to reach <a href="/wiki/Algiers" title="Algiers">Algiers</a> still carrying the standard of the regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-MuseeArmee_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MuseeArmee-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1945, the same standard was decorated with the <i><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9daille_des_%C3%A9vad%C3%A9s" class="mw-redirect" title="Médaille des évadés">Médaille des évadés</a></i>, a decoration created in 1926 for individual soldiers who made a successful escape from enemies or at least two unsuccessful attempts. The 2nd Dragoons remain the only French military unit ever to receive this decoration.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Montagnon_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Montagnon-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This standard is now in the <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_l%27Arm%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Musée de l'Armée">Musée de l'Armée</a> in Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-MuseeArmee_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MuseeArmee-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Revival_in_the_Free_French_Army">Revival in the Free French Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Revival in the Free French Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 7 November 1943, plans to revive the 2nd Dragoons in the Free French Army were finalised and the regiment was designated as a <a href="/wiki/Tank_destroyer" title="Tank destroyer">tank destroyer</a> unit; it was re-formed on 21 December 1943, at <a href="/wiki/Sfax" title="Sfax">Sfax</a>, Tunisia.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At a ceremony attended by a number of senior French and Allied officers, General <a href="/wiki/Henri_Giraud" title="Henri Giraud">Henri Giraud</a> formally returned the regiment's standard, to its new commander, Lieutenant Colonel de Sauzey. The regiment incorporated men from the 2nd and 6th Algerian <a href="/wiki/Spahi" title="Spahi">Spahis</a>, nearly three full squadrons from the former. This was the first time large numbers of French colonial natives had joined a cavalry regiment from metropolitan France. Once the regiment arrived in France, many of its men who had fought in the Resistance rejoined.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The regiment was equipped with <a href="/wiki/M20_Scout_Car" class="mw-redirect" title="M20 Scout Car">M20 Scout Cars</a>. In May 1944, Lieutenant Colonel André Demetz was appointed to command the regiment. He was a specialist in armoured warfare, whose philosophy was that the way his men treated their equipment (similarly to the way mounted cavalrymen treated their horse) showed their ability. He began the practice of naming all the vehicles of the regiment, after places in Paris; for example, the colonel's vehicle is named after <i>Paris</i> itself, the most prominent armoured vehicles are named after monuments such as the <i>Louvre</i> and <i>Arc-de-Triomphe</i>, and the regiment's trucks are named after working class banlieues like <i>Pantin</i> and <i>Billancourt</i>. The regiment embarked in <a href="/wiki/Mers-el-Kebir" class="mw-redirect" title="Mers-el-Kebir">Mers-el-Kebir</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oran" title="Oran">Oran</a> on 25 August, and spent five days in the crossing to Provence, during which Colonel Schlesser radioed in an encouraging message.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Liberation_of_France">Liberation of France</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Liberation of France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 30 August, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment debarked in Provence, and headed to <a href="/wiki/Eygui%C3%A8res" title="Eyguières">Eyguières</a>. The regiment was immediately assigned to a battle group that captured <a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a>, and formed General <a href="/wiki/Jean_de_Lattre_de_Tassigny" title="Jean de Lattre de Tassigny">Jean de Lattre de Tassigny</a>'s escort when he entered the city on 2 September. On 4 September, the regiment began advancing north towards <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a>, attached to the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Army_Corps_(France)" title="2nd Army Corps (France)">2nd Army Corps</a>. Covering the left flank of the Corps, it reached <a href="/wiki/Paray-le-Monial" title="Paray-le-Monial">Paray-le-Monial</a>, where it met the <a href="/wiki/8th_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)" title="8th Dragoon Regiment (France)">8th Dragoon Regiment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/French_Forces_of_the_Interior" title="French Forces of the Interior">French Forces of the Interior</a>, which from then served as its infantry support. From 8 to 10 September, the regiment fought in the capture of <a href="/wiki/Autun" title="Autun">Autun</a>, meeting fierce resistance from German troops. There they took several casualties, including Chef d'escadrons de Neuchèze.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10–11 September, the regiment linked up at <a href="/wiki/Saulieu" title="Saulieu">Saulieu</a> with U.S. troops who had <a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings">landed in Normandy</a>, the 86th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized) (part of the <a href="/wiki/6th_Armored_Division_(United_States)" title="6th Armored Division (United States)">6th Armored Division</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During October, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment fought in the campaigns of the <a href="/wiki/Vosges" title="Vosges">Vosges</a> and <a href="/wiki/Doubs" title="Doubs">Doubs</a>, reaching <a href="/wiki/Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse" title="Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse">Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse</a> on 30 October, where it was allowed to rest. In mid-November, it was called upon to join the advance toward <a href="/wiki/Belfort" title="Belfort">Belfort</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mulhouse" title="Mulhouse">Mulhouse</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Moroccan_Infantry_Division" title="2nd Moroccan Infantry Division">2nd Moroccan Infantry Division</a>. By 24 November, it had reached the area of <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9ch%C3%A9sy" title="Réchésy">Réchésy</a>, where it acted rapidly to destroy German tanks and to cut off the communications of the <a href="/wiki/1st_SS_Panzer_Division_Leibstandarte_SS_Adolf_Hitler" title="1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler">1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler</a> to allow the French Army to capture <a href="/wiki/Mulhouse" title="Mulhouse">Mulhouse</a>. During December and until 20 January, the regiment was positioned defensively around Mulhouse. On 20 January, it was part of the initial French advance against the southern flank of the <a href="/wiki/Colmar_Pocket" title="Colmar Pocket">Colmar Pocket</a>. They were engaged in this offensive, suffering heavy casualties, until its success with the capture of <a href="/wiki/Cernay,_Haut-Rhin" title="Cernay, Haut-Rhin">Cernay</a>, in which some elements of the regiment participated. After this, the regiment rested at <a href="/wiki/Masevaux" title="Masevaux">Masevaux</a>, where Demetz was replaced by Colonel Clerck at the head of the regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Invasion_of_Germany">Invasion of Germany</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Invasion of Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 1 April 1945, the regiment destroyed German bunkers to cross the <a href="/wiki/Rhine" title="Rhine">Rhine</a> at Germersheim, and in the days that followed, it fought pockets of German troops around <a href="/wiki/Weingarten,_Rhineland-Palatinate" title="Weingarten, Rhineland-Palatinate">Weingarten</a> entrenched in towns and armed with tanks and anti-tank weapons. On 16 April the 2nd Dragoon Regiment returned across the Rhine to attack the remaining German forces in the <a href="/wiki/Black_Forest" title="Black Forest">Black Forest</a>. The 2nd Squadron joined the <i>Groupement Lebel</i>, which chased a German force through the Black Forest and as far as <a href="/wiki/Konstanz" title="Konstanz">Konstanz</a>, while the rest of the regiment cut off the northeast of the Black Forest around <a href="/wiki/Freudenstadt" title="Freudenstadt">Freudenstadt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Villingen-Schwenningen" title="Villingen-Schwenningen">Schwenningen</a>. When news came of the German surrender on 7 May, the squadrons of the regiment had reunited and were staying at <a href="/wiki/Schloss_Heiligenberg_(Heiligenberg)" title="Schloss Heiligenberg (Heiligenberg)">Schloss Heiligenberg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CharsFrancais_32-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharsFrancais-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the months after the war, the regiment garrisoned the French zone in the <a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria" title="Allied-occupied Austria">occupation of Austria</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Innsbruck" title="Innsbruck">Innsbruck</a> and <a href="/wiki/Schwaz" title="Schwaz">Schwaz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-war">Post-war</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Post-war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1957 to 1961, the regiment fought in the <a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">Algerian War</a>, losing 84 men. From 1961 to 1984, the regiment was garrisoned at <a href="/wiki/Haguenau" title="Haguenau">Haguenau</a> in Alsace; from 1977 to 1984 part of the <a href="/wiki/6th_Armoured_Division_(France)" title="6th Armoured Division (France)">6th Armoured Division</a>. From 1984 to 1997, it was based at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cr%C3%A9py-Couvron&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crépy-Couvron (page does not exist)">Crépy-Couvron</a> in <a href="/wiki/Aisne" title="Aisne">Aisne</a> department, Picardy. In 1997, the regiment moved to <a href="/wiki/Fontevraud-l%27Abbaye" title="Fontevraud-l'Abbaye">Fontevraud-l'Abbaye</a>, a village by <a href="/wiki/Saumur" title="Saumur">Saumur</a> in <a href="/wiki/Maine-et-Loire" title="Maine-et-Loire">Maine-et-Loire</a> department. It served as an <a href="/wiki/Armoured_reconnaissance" title="Armoured reconnaissance">armoured reconnaissance</a> regiment, using the <a href="/wiki/AMX-30" title="AMX-30">AMX-30</a> and later the <a href="/wiki/AMX_Leclerc" class="mw-redirect" title="AMX Leclerc">AMX Leclerc</a> <a href="/wiki/Main_battle_tank" title="Main battle tank">main battle tanks</a>, the <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A9hicule_de_l%27Avant_Blind%C3%A9" title="Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé">Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A9hicule_Blind%C3%A9_L%C3%A9ger" title="Véhicule Blindé Léger">Véhicule Blindé Léger</a>. It was part of the <a href="/wiki/8th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="8th Infantry Division (France)">8th Infantry Division</a> until its dissolution in 1993, and then the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Armored_Division_(France)" title="2nd Armored Division (France)">2nd Armored Division</a> until 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-free.fr_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-free.fr-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 July 2005, the regiment amalgamated with the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Groupe_de_d%C3%A9fense_NBC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Groupe de défense NBC (page does not exist)">groupe de défense NBC</a></i>. After the merger, the regiment briefly went by the name "2nd Dragoon Regiment – Nuclear, Biological and Chemical" (<i>2<sup>e</sup> régiment de dragons – nucléaire, biologique et chimique, 2<sup>e</sup> RD-NBC</i>), before reverting to the simple <i>2<sup>e</sup> régiment de dragons</i>. Since the merger in 2005, the regiment has been under the direct command of the <i><a href="/wiki/Commandement_des_Forces_Terrestres" title="Commandement des Forces Terrestres">Commandement des Forces Terrestres</a></i>, the high command of the French Army.<sup id="cite_ref-ObjDoc_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ObjDoc-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2015, soldiers of the regiment were deployed to <a href="/wiki/Guinea" title="Guinea">Guinea</a> to provide decontamination for medical personnel fighting the <a href="/wiki/West_African_Ebola_epidemic" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Ebola epidemic">West African Ebola epidemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organisation">Organisation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Organisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personnel">Personnel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Personnel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of 2013, the regiment was manned by 893 personnel divided into:<sup id="cite_ref-officialsite_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialsite-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>5 mixed reconnaissance and decontamination squadrons</li> <li>1 command and logistics squadron</li> <li>1 reserve squadron</li></ul> <p>There were 53 officers, 270 non-commissioned officers, 562 other ranks, and 8 civilians in the regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-officialsite_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialsite-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Current_equipment">Current equipment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Current equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Vehicles</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A9hicule_de_l%27Avant_Blind%C3%A9" title="Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé">Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé</a> NBC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VLRA" class="mw-redirect" title="VLRA">VLRA</a> NBC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renault_TRM_10000" title="Renault TRM 10000">TRM 10000</a> SDA (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">système de décontamination approfondi</i>, thorough decontamination system)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Role">Role</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Role"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 2nd Dragoon Regiment is currently the sole unit of the French Army specialised in defending against <a href="/wiki/Chemical_weapon" title="Chemical weapon">chemical</a>, <a href="/wiki/Biological_weapon" class="mw-redirect" title="Biological weapon">biological</a>, <a href="/wiki/Radiological_weapon" class="mw-redirect" title="Radiological weapon">radiological</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear</a> (CBRN) weapons, although there also are <a href="/wiki/French_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="French Air Force">French Air Force</a> teams with CBRN defense capabilities. The regiment's personnel undergo their training at the Army's CBRN school, now located in Saumur. All members of the regiment are trained in decontamination, and upon completing this training, they may undergo training for CBRN reconnaissance and operating in a "light role team" (LRT).<sup id="cite_ref-Dragonsong_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dragonsong-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment's most immediate role is seen as being ready to deal with terrorism on French soil, but its role extends to handling accidents at industrial facilities such as nuclear power plants, handling attacks on France during a war, assisting <a href="/wiki/Civil_defence" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil defence">civil defence</a>, and protecting French forces on operations. As well as being tasked with defending France, it has the capability to be deployed overseas if needed.<sup id="cite_ref-ObjDoc_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ObjDoc-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dragonsong_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dragonsong-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From its base, the 2nd Dragoon Regiment runs Detecbio, a network of environmental monitoring sensors that can detect a variety of potential biological threats.<sup id="cite_ref-Dragonsong_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dragonsong-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Symbols">Symbols</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Symbols"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Standard">Standard</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Standard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2e_r%C3%A9giment_de_dragons_%E2%80%93_nucl%C3%A9aire,_biologique_et_chimique_-drapeau.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/2e_r%C3%A9giment_de_dragons_%E2%80%93_nucl%C3%A9aire%2C_biologique_et_chimique_-drapeau.svg/500px-2e_r%C3%A9giment_de_dragons_%E2%80%93_nucl%C3%A9aire%2C_biologique_et_chimique_-drapeau.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/2e_r%C3%A9giment_de_dragons_%E2%80%93_nucl%C3%A9aire%2C_biologique_et_chimique_-drapeau.svg/525px-2e_r%C3%A9giment_de_dragons_%E2%80%93_nucl%C3%A9aire%2C_biologique_et_chimique_-drapeau.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/2e_r%C3%A9giment_de_dragons_%E2%80%93_nucl%C3%A9aire%2C_biologique_et_chimique_-drapeau.svg/700px-2e_r%C3%A9giment_de_dragons_%E2%80%93_nucl%C3%A9aire%2C_biologique_et_chimique_-drapeau.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>The standard of the modern 2nd Dragoon Regiment</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Standard_of_the_Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie,_1740%E2%80%931776.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Standard_of_the_Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie%2C_1740%E2%80%931776.jpg/350px-Standard_of_the_Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie%2C_1740%E2%80%931776.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Standard_of_the_Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie%2C_1740%E2%80%931776.jpg/525px-Standard_of_the_Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie%2C_1740%E2%80%931776.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Standard_of_the_Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie%2C_1740%E2%80%931776.jpg/700px-Standard_of_the_Cond%C3%A9-Cavalerie%2C_1740%E2%80%931776.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1268" data-file-height="728" /></a><figcaption>The two sides of the standard of the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i>, 1740–1776</figcaption></figure> <p>The regimental <a href="/wiki/Military_standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Military standard">standard</a> of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment is a French tricolor, with the following battle honours sewn on it in gold:<sup id="cite_ref-EtendardDecision_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EtendardDecision-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valmy" title="Battle of Valmy">Valmy 1792</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Zurich" title="Second Battle of Zurich">Zurich 1799</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hohenlinden" title="Battle of Hohenlinden">Hohenlinden 1800</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz" title="Battle of Austerlitz">Austerlitz 1805</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Jena">Iena 1806</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Frontiers" title="Battle of the Frontiers">La Mortagne 1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_battle_of_Ypres" class="mw-redirect" title="First battle of Ypres">Ypres 1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lys_(1918)" title="Battle of the Lys (1918)">Flandres 1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Marne" title="Second Battle of the Marne">Champagne 1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autun" title="Autun">Autun</a> 1944</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Forest" title="Black Forest">Forêt-Noire</a> 1945</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">AFN 1952–1962</a></li></ul> <p>The French Army does not retain any battle honours from before the Revolution; the battle honour <i>AFN 1952–1962</i> for the <a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">Algerian War</a> was only retained after some controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-EtendardDecision_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EtendardDecision-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the Ancien Régime, the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> had standards (<a href="/wiki/Colours,_standards_and_guidons" class="mw-redirect" title="Colours, standards and guidons">guidons</a> from 1776) that were blue, with the golden sun emblem of <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XIV of France">Louis XIV</a> and the motto <i><a href="/wiki/Nec_pluribus_impar" title="Nec pluribus impar">Nec pluribus impar</a></i>, on one side; and <a href="/wiki/Fawn_(colour)" title="Fawn (colour)">fawn</a>, with a silver sun lighting a pyre and the regimental motto <i>Da materiam splendescam</i>, on the other. The guidons were embroidered and fringed in silver.<sup id="cite_ref-Susane_2-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susane-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Motto">Motto</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Motto"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The motto of the regiment under the <a href="/wiki/Louis,_Grand_Cond%C3%A9" title="Louis, Grand Condé">Grand Condé</a>, maintained by the current regiment, is "<i>Da materiam splendescam</i>", after the motto of the Grand Condé, "<i>Splendescam da materiam.</i>" This translates to "Give me a chance to shine" or "Give me means, and I will shine".<sup id="cite_ref-Giudicelli_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giudicelli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Badge">Badge</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Badge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The badge of the regiment consists of a black, winged dragon holding a guidon of the <i>Condé-Cavalerie</i> (showing the fawn side with the sun and pyre), on a blue background. At the bottom is inscribed "Condé Dragons".<sup id="cite_ref-free.fr_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-free.fr-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Decorations">Decorations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Decorations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The regiment has been awarded the following decorations: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_1914%E2%80%931918_(France)" title="Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)">Croix de guerre 1914–1918</a> with two palms and two vermeil stars</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_1939%E2%80%931945" class="mw-redirect" title="Croix de guerre 1939–1945">Croix de guerre 1939–1945</a> with two palms</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9daille_des_%C3%A9vad%C3%A9s" class="mw-redirect" title="Médaille des évadés">Médaille des évadés</a> (Escapees' Medal)</li></ul> <p>Because of the regiment's decoration with the World War I Croix de guerre, all serving members of the 2nd Dragoon Regiment wear <a href="/wiki/Fourrag%C3%A8re" title="Fourragère">fourragères</a> in green with red stripes on their uniforms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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