Hussard of the Guard – France, 1810

The French regiments of hussars are French light cavalry regiments grouping the hussars.

In the French army, the hussars appeared in 1637 during the Thirty Years’ War, but they did not form a distinct weapon in the cavalry until 1776. Serving as scouts, responsible for harassing the adversary, the hussars always did demonstrated exceptional courage and wrote the most astonishing pages in the history of revolutionary and imperial wars, capturing in 1795 the Dutch fleet caught in the ice at Texel, causing the fortress of Stettin to capitulate and participating in all the major charges.