PAIR OF EPAULETS TROOP OF THE 1st REGIMENT OF CUIRASSIERS, Second Empire. 27033

PAIR OF EPAULETS TROOP OF THE 1st REGIMENT OF CUIRASSIERS, Second Empire. 27033

Entirely in white wool, lined with dark blue cloth, with half-rounded pewter buttons stamped with a flaming bomb whose body is stamped with the regimental number "1".

France.
Second Empire.
Very good state.

HISTORY:
From 1850 to 1870, the 1st Cuirassier Regiment was not called to any battle. During this period, he was garrisoned in Lille in 1852, Cambrai in 1854, Lille in 1855, Arras in 1856, Versailles in 1857, Saint-Omer, Saint-Avold, Sarrebourg, Sarreguemines in 1860, Haguenau then Belfort in 1867.

Sedan and the poverty camp on contemporary map.
In 1869, the four squadrons of the 1st Cuirassier Regiment gathered at Lunéville to be assigned to the Girard Brigade, 2nd Reserve Cavalry Division of General Bonnemains' III Corps.
On August 1, 1870, as part of the Franco-Prussian War, the regiment assembled at Lunéville and on August 6 it was engaged in the charge of Reichshoffen where it lost around sixty cavalrymen.
The regiment retreated first to Chalons then to Sedan where the regiment attempted a breakthrough. Taken prisoner of war, the regiment was taken, like the rest of the army, to the Iges peninsula and parked, practically without shelter and without provisions, before being sent to Germany.

1st marching cuirassiers.
The depot company and the escaped elements were brought together to form, under the command of Colonel de Renusson d'Hauteville, the 1st marching cuirassiers.
Associated with Colonel Rouher's 1st battalion of marching hunters, they formed General de Longuerue's cavalry division which was attached to the 15th Army Corps of Division General Martineau des Chenez, with which he participated in the Battle of Coulmiers.