The Grand Duchy of Berg cavalry in Spain - 1808-1809 & 1810-1813.
The “régiment de chevau-légers du grand-duc de Berg“ was raised by the decree of 21 May 1807. The 1st company was named “Garde du corps” of Murat.
In the spring of 1808, the “Garde du corps” company was sent in Spain.
It was disbanded on 11 January 1809.
The decree of 29 August 1808 raised a “régiment de chasseurs à cheval de Berg “.
The decree of 17 December 1809 renamed the “chasseurs” the “régiment de lanciers de Berg”.
The first two squadrons were sent to the Peninsula in the spring of 1810.
In 1811, the regiment is increased to six squadrons, with three in Spain.
By the decree of 4 March 1812 the regiment became the “1er régiment de lanciers de Berg”
In 1813 the regiment was recalled from Spain.
Regimental History - Eck, [Hans]. Geschichte des 2. Westfäl. Husaren-Regiments Nr. 11 und seiner stammtruppen von 1807-1903: Auf befehl des königlichen regimentes bearbeitet. 1904:
Officers:
Kmdr. portraits:
http://books.google.com/books?id=h9IOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA370-IA5
graf Golstein: kmdr 1807-1810: “né dans le département de la Ruhr, fils du président du Conseil d'Etat de Berg, élève à Fontainebleau en 1804, chef d'escadrons en 1813, général en 1841, mort en 1862.”
“... und bergische Lanzenreuter, under Kommando des Grafen Golstein, ....” 5th line, left column, p 12, Münchener politische Zeitung, 2 Jan 1811 issue:
http://books.google.com/books?id=mkBEAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA12
Witzleben: Kmdr 1810-1812: CdE lanciers de Berg
von/de Toll: Kmdr 1812-1813: CdE 1812
Others:
La Nougarédt:
Renard: CdE 1811
Nesselrode: Colonel 1812 Russia
Bibliography:
Armand Frhr. von Ardenne. Bergische Lanziers - Westfalische Husaren Nr. 11. Mittler & Sohn1877 vi, 453 p.
Mémoires de Beugnot. 1866.
Le grand-duché de Berg (1806-1813): étude sur la domination française en ... by Charles Schmidt see bibliography p. v.ff:
http://books.google.com/books?id=zKcgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR5
Costa de Serda Les troupes sociales sous le premier Empire, opérations îîles troupes allemandes en Espagne de 1808 à 1813. Paris, 1874"
http://books.google.com/books?id=xaBBAAAAYAAJ
P. Zimmermann. Feldzüge der bergischen Truppen in Spanien und Russland. Düsseldorf: 1840.
P. Zimmermann. Erinnerungen aus den Feldzügen der Bergischen Truppen in Spanien u. Russland. Zweite Auflage. Düsseldorf: 1842
Eck, [Hans]. Geschichte des 2. Westfäl. Husaren-Regiments Nr. 11 und seiner stammtruppen von 1807-1903: Auf befehl des königlichen regimentes bearbeitet. 1904:
http://bks9.books.google.com/books?id=h9IOAAAAYAAJ
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