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12th Cuirassier Regiment (France)

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The 12th Cuirassier Regiment (12e Régiment de Cuirassiers, 12e RC) is an armoured cavalry (tank) regiment of the French Army. [1]

46 relations: Ancien Régime, Armored car (military), Army of the Rhine (1791–1801), Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Biberach (1796), Battle of Borodino, Battle of Elchingen, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Haguenau (1793), Battle of Hohenlinden, Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, Battle of Ligny, Battle of Tarutino, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Waterloo, Battle of Wertingen, Brigadier general, Charles de Gaulle, Chef de brigade, Colonel, Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France), Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France), Divisional general, Fourragère, French Army, French Revolutionary Wars, Gnome et Rhône, Imperial Guard (Napoleon III), Loiret, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marie-Eugène Debeney, Maxime Weygand, Müllheim, Milan, Niort, Olivet, Loiret, Orange, Vaucluse, Panhard, Panhard 178, Philippsburg, Presidential Unit Citation (United States), Second French Empire, Vichy France, 2nd Armoured Brigade (France), 6th Cuirassier Regiment (France), 6th-12th Cuirassier Regiment.

Ancien Régime

The Ancien Régime (French for "old regime") was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the.

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Armored car (military)

A military armored (or armoured) car is a lightweight wheeled armored fighting vehicle, historically employed for reconnaissance, internal security, armed escort, and other subordinate battlefield tasks.

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Army of the Rhine (1791–1801)

The Army of the Rhine (Armée du Rhin) was formed in December 1791, for the purpose of bringing the French Revolution to the German states along the Rhine River.

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Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805/11 Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Battle of Biberach (1796)

The Battle of Biberach was fought on 2 October 1796 between a First French Republic army led by Jean Victor Marie Moreau and a Habsburg Austrian army led by Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour.

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Battle of Borodino

The Battle of Borodino (la Moskova) was a battle fought on 7 September 1812 in the Napoleonic Wars during the French invasion of Russia.

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Battle of Elchingen

The Battle of Elchingen, fought on 14 October 1805, saw French forces under Michel Ney rout an Austrian corps led by Johann Sigismund Riesch.

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Battle of Friedland

The Battle of Friedland (June 14, 1807) was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars between the armies of the French Empire commanded by Napoleon I and the armies of the Russian Empire led by Count von Bennigsen.

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Battle of Haguenau (1793)

The Battle of Haguenau (18 November – 22 December 1793) saw a Republican French army commanded by Jean-Charles Pichegru mount a persistent offensive against a Coalition army under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser during the War of the First Coalition.

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Battle of Hohenlinden

The Battle of Hohenlinden was fought on 3 December 1800, during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Battle of Jena–Auerstedt

The twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt (older name: Auerstädt) were fought on 14 October 1806 on the plateau west of the River Saale in today's Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia.

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Battle of Ligny

The Battle of Ligny (16 June 1815) was the last victory of the military career of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Battle of Tarutino

The Battle of Tarutino (Тарутинo) was a part of Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

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Battle of Wagram

The Battle of Wagram (5–6 July 1809) was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that ended in a costly but decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon I's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen.

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Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Battle of Wertingen

In the Battle of Wertingen (8 October 1805) Imperial French forces led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes attacked a small Austrian corps commanded by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Franz Xaver von Auffenberg.

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Brigadier general

Brigadier general (Brig. Gen.) is a senior rank in the armed forces.

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Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France.

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Chef de brigade

Chef de brigade was a military rank, equivalent to colonel, in the French Revolutionary army, in command of a demi-brigade.

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Colonel

Colonel ("kernel", abbreviated Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank below the brigadier and general officer ranks.

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Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)

The Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (War Cross) is a French military decoration, the first version of the Croix de guerre.

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Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)

The Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (War Cross 1939–1945) is a French military decoration, a version of the Croix de guerre created on September 26, 1939, to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis forces at any time during World War II.

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Divisional general

Divisional general is a rank of general in command of a division.

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Fourragère

The fourragère is a military award, distinguishing military units as a whole, in the form of a braided cord.

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French Army

The French Army, officially the Ground Army (Armée de terre) (to distinguish it from the French Air Force, Armée de L'air or Air Army) is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.

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French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution.

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Gnome et Rhône

Gnome et Rhône was a major French aircraft engine manufacturer.

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Imperial Guard (Napoleon III)

The Imperial Guard of Napoleon III was a military corps in the French Army formed by Napoleon III as a re-establishment of his uncle Napoleon I's Imperial Guard, with an updated version of the original uniforms and almost the same privileges.

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Loiret

Loiret is a department in north-central France.

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician.

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Marie-Eugène Debeney

Marie-Eugène Debeney (5 May 1864 – 6 November 1943) was a French Army general.

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Maxime Weygand

Maxime Weygand (21 January 1867 – 28 January 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II.

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Müllheim

Müllheim is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Niort

Niort is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.

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Olivet, Loiret

Olivet is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.

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Orange, Vaucluse

Orange (Provençal Aurenja in classical norm or Aurenjo in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Vaucluse Department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France, about north of Avignon.

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Panhard

Panhard is a French manufacturer of light tactical and military vehicles.

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Panhard 178

The Panhard 178 (officially designated as Automitrailleuse de Découverte Panhard modèle 1935, 178 being the internal project number at Panhard) or "Pan-Pan" was an advanced French reconnaissance 4x4 armoured car that was designed for the French Army Cavalry units before World War II.

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Philippsburg

Philippsburg is a town in Germany, in the district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg.

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Presidential Unit Citation (United States)

The Presidential Unit Citation (PUC), originally called the Distinguished Unit Citation, is awarded to units of the Uniformed services of the United States, and those of allied countries, for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy on or after 7 December 1941 (the date of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of American involvement in World War II).

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Second French Empire

The French Second Empire (Second Empire) was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.

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Vichy France

Vichy France (Régime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.

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2nd Armoured Brigade (France)

The 2nd Armoured Brigade (e Brigade Blindée, 2 BB) is an armoured brigade of the French Army.

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6th Cuirassier Regiment (France)

The 6th Cuirassier Regiment (6e Régiment de Cuirassiers,6e RC) was an ancient French cavalry regiment.

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6th-12th Cuirassier Regiment

The 12th Cuirassier Regiment (6e-12e Régiment de Cuirassiers,6e-12e RC) was an armoured cavalry (tank) regiment of the French Army.

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Redirects here:

12e Régiment de Cuirassiers.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Cuirassier_Regiment_(France)

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