Composition

• Command and Logistics Squadron (ECL)
• 1st Squadron, Air-transportable armored (1er Escadron)
  • 6 VBL
  • 3 AMX 10 RC
    AMX 10 RC
    The AMX-10RC is a wheeled recon vehicle and tank destroyer built by GIAT. Over 300 are in service in the French Army. 120 additional vehicles were sold to Morocco and Qatar ....
    
    
  • 6 VAB C20
    Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé
    The Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé or VAB is an armoured personnel carrier and support vehicle designed by the Euro Mobilité Division of GIAT Industries of France. It entered service in 1976; around 5,000 were produced.- Design :The VAB was designed as a wheeled troop transporter, complementing the...
    
    
• 2nd Squadron, Air-transportable armored (2e Escadron)
  • 13 VBL
  • 12 ERC 90 Sagaie
    ERC 90 Sagaie
    The Panhard ERC 90 is a French six-wheeled armoured all terrain vehicle which is highly mobile and amphibious with an option of being NBC-proof. While various models were tested, only two versions of the ERC were developed and produced: the Lynx and the Sagaie...
    
    
• 3rd Squadron, Reconnaissance and Anti-Tank (ERIAC) (only unit fully parachutable, both men and equipment) (3e Escadron)
  • VBL
    • VBL reconnaissance, 7.62 mm AA-52 machine gun
    • VBL anti-tank, MILAN
      MILAN
      MILAN " is French and German for "kite bird") is a European anti-tank guided missile. Design of the MILAN started in 1962. It was ready for trials in 1971, and was accepted for service in 1972. It is a wire guided SACLOS missile, which means the sight of the launch unit has to be aimed at the...
      
       anti-tank missile
    • VBL support, 12.7 mm M2 Browning machine gun
    • VBL command
• 4th Squadron, Air-transportable armored (4e Escadron)
  • 13 VBL
  • 12 ERC 90 Sagaie
• 5th Squadron, operational reserve (5e Escadron)
• 11th Squadron, training and education (disbanded on 14 January 2011)
• GCP
  Commando Parachute Group
  The Commando Parachute Group is a special forces unit in the 11th Parachute Brigade of the French Army that is within the second "circle" of authority of the Commandement des Opérations Spéciales....
  
   Platoon
  • Two teams of ten commandos.

Vehicles

• AMX 10 RC
  AMX 10 RC
  The AMX-10RC is a wheeled recon vehicle and tank destroyer built by GIAT. Over 300 are in service in the French Army. 120 additional vehicles were sold to Morocco and Qatar ....
  
   (3)
• ERC 90 Sagaie
  ERC 90 Sagaie
  The Panhard ERC 90 is a French six-wheeled armoured all terrain vehicle which is highly mobile and amphibious with an option of being NBC-proof. While various models were tested, only two versions of the ERC were developed and produced: the Lynx and the Sagaie...
  
   (36)
• Véhicule Blindé Léger (68)
• Peugeot P4
  Peugeot P4
  The P4 is an unarmoured off-road vehicle used by the military of France. It was manufactured by Peugeot but is now manufactured by Panhard. It is to be replaced with the PVP by Panhard. The P4 is a militarised Mercedes Geländewagen marketed by Peugeot for the French military...
  
   (84)
• Cagiva
  Cagiva
  Cagiva is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1950 by Giovanni Castiglioni in Varese, originally producing small metal components. It went into the motorcycle industry in 1978. The name is a portmanteau derived from the founder and the founding location, i.e. CAstiglioni GIovanni...
  
   motorcycles
• Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé
  Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé
  The Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé or VAB is an armoured personnel carrier and support vehicle designed by the Euro Mobilité Division of GIAT Industries of France. It entered service in 1976; around 5,000 were produced.- Design :The VAB was designed as a wheeled troop transporter, complementing the...
  
  

Battle Honours

• Valmy 1792
  Battle of Valmy
  The Battle of Valmy was the first major victory by the army of France during the French Revolution. The action took place on 20 September 1792 as Prussian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris...
  
  
• Jemmapes 1792
  Battle of Jemappes
  The Battle of Jemappes took place near the town of Jemappes in Hainaut, Belgium, near Mons. General Charles François Dumouriez, in command of the French Revolutionary Army, defeated the greatly outnumbered Austrian army of Field Marshal Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen and his second-in-command...
  
  
• Castiglione 1796
• Eylau 1807
  Battle of Eylau
  The Battle of Eylau or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau, 7 and 8 February 1807, was a bloody and inconclusive battle between Napoléon's Grande Armée and a Russian Empire army under Levin August, Count von Bennigsen near the town of Preußisch Eylau in East Prussia. Late in the battle, the Russians...
  
  
• Sebastopol 1855
• La Mortagne 1914
• La Serre 1918
• AFN 1952-1962

Decorations

• Croix de guerre 1914-1918
  Croix de guerre 1914-1918 (France)
  The Croix de guerre 1914–1918 is a French military decoration.-Creation:Soon after the outbreak of World War I, French military officials felt that a new military award had to be created...
  
   with one vermeil star.
• Croix de guerre 1939-1945
  Croix de guerre 1939-1945 (France)
  The Croix de guerre 1939–1945 is a French military decoration created on September 26, 1939, to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis force at any time during World War II.-Recipients:...
  
   with one palm.

Lineage

• 1720: Bercheny
• 1791: 1er Régiment de Hussards
• 1814: Hussards du Roi
• 1815: 1er Régiment de Hussards
• 1815: Dissolved
• 1816: Hussards du Jura
• 1824: Hussards de Chartres
• 1848: 1er Régiment de Hussards
• 1928: Dissolved
• 1928: 1er Régiment de Hussards
• 1940: Dissolved
• 1945: 1er Régiment de Hussards
• 1946: 1er Régiment de Hussards Parachutistes

Campaigns

• 1733 War of the Polish Succession
  War of the Polish Succession
  The War of the Polish Succession was a major European war for princes' possessions sparked by a Polish civil war over the succession to Augustus II, King of Poland that other European powers widened in pursuit of their own national interests...
  
  
• 1741-1748 War of the Austrian Succession
  War of the Austrian Succession
  The War of the Austrian Succession  – including King George's War in North America, the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkins' Ear, and two of the three Silesian wars – involved most of the powers of Europe over the question of Maria Theresa's succession to the realms of the House of Habsburg.The...
  
  
• 1756-1763 Seven Years' War
  Seven Years' War
  The Seven Years' War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines...
  
  
• 1792-1802 French Revolutionary Wars
  French Revolutionary Wars
  The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states...
  
  
• 1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars
  Napoleonic Wars
  The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...
  
  
• 1831 Ten Days' Campaign
• 1854 Crimean War
  Crimean War
  The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...
  
  
• 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War
  Franco-Prussian War
  The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and...
  
  
• 1871-1882 Algeria
• 1914-1918 World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  
• 1940 World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
  
• 1946 Algeria
• 1948 First Indochina War
  First Indochina War
  The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East...
  
  
• 1956 Morocco
• 1956-1961 Algeria
• 1978 Lebanon, UNIFIL
• 1979 Chad, Opération Tacaud
  Opération Tacaud
  Opération Tacaud was a French military operation in Chad, that took place between 20 February 1978 and May 1980. Its aim was to support the Chadian army in protecting N'Djamena from the FROLINAT.- History :...
  
  
• 1983 Lebanon
• 1984 Chad, Operation Manta
  Operation Manta
  Operation Manta is the code name for the French military intervention in Chad between 1983 and 1984, during the Chadian-Libyan conflict. The operation was prompted by the invasion of Chad by a joint force of Libyan units and Chadian Transitional Government of National Unity rebels in June 1983...
  
  
• 1990 Gulf War
  Gulf War
  The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...
  
  
• 1993 Yugoslavia, UNPROFOR
• 1994 Rwanda, Opération Turquoise
  Opération Turquoise
  Opération Turquoise was a French-led military operation in Rwanda in 1994 under the mandate of the United Nations.- Background :On 6 April 1994 Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were assassinated, sparking the 1994 Rwandan Genocide...
  
  
• 1995 Chad
• 1995 Yugoslavia, UNPROFOR
• 1996 Yugoslavia, IFOR
  IFOR
  The Implementation Force was a NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina under a one-year mandate from 20 December 1995 to 20 December 1996 under the codename Operation Joint Endeavour. Its task was to implement the military Annexes of The General Framework Agreement for...
  
  
• 1999 Macedonia
• 1999 Albania
• 1999 French Guiana
• 1999 Chad, Operation Epervier
• 1999 Kosovo
• 2000 Côte d'Ivoire
• 2001 Kosovo, KFOR
  KFOR
  The Kosovo Force is a NATO-led international peacekeeping force responsible for establishing a secure environment in Kosovo.KFOR entered Kosovo on 12 June 1999 under a United Nations mandate, two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244...
  
  
• 2001 Côte d'Ivoire
• 2002 Chad, Operation Epervier
• 2002 Kosovo, KFOR
  KFOR
  The Kosovo Force is a NATO-led international peacekeeping force responsible for establishing a secure environment in Kosovo.KFOR entered Kosovo on 12 June 1999 under a United Nations mandate, two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244...
  
  
• 2002 Côte d'Ivoire, Operation Unicorn
• 2003 DR Congo, Operation Artemis
  Operation Artemis
  Operation Artemis was a short-term European Union-led military mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.In the beginning of 2003 United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or MONUC, observer teams present in that country since 1999 monitored serious combats and human rights...
  
  
• 2003 Central African Republic
• 2003 Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFOR
  SFOR
  The Stabilisation Force was a NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina which was tasked with upholding the Dayton Agreement. It replaced the previous force IFOR...
  
  
• 2003 Kosovo, KFOR
  KFOR
  The Kosovo Force is a NATO-led international peacekeeping force responsible for establishing a secure environment in Kosovo.KFOR entered Kosovo on 12 June 1999 under a United Nations mandate, two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244...
  
  
• 2003 Afghanistan
• 2004 Côte d'Ivoire, Operation Unicorn
• 2004 Haiti
• 2004 Senegal
• 2004 Kosovo
• 2005 Côte d'Ivoire, Operation Unicorn
• 2006 Afghanistan
• 2006 Côte d'Ivoire, Operation Unicorn
• 2006 Kosovo
• 2007 Afghanistan
• 2007 Kosovo
• 2007 Chad, Operation Epervier
• 2008 Afghanistan
• 2008-2009 Chad, EUFOR Tchad/RCA
  EUFOR Tchad/RCA
  European Union Force Chad/CAR, also EUFOR Tchad/RCA after the French, was the European Union mission in Chad and the Central African Republic , authorized in late 2007. EUFOR Chad/CAR was authorized under the same United Nations Security Council resolution that mandated MINURCAT, a UN force tasked...
  
  
• 2010 Kosovo
• 2010 Afghanistan

External links

• French official website of the Bercheny's - 1st Airborne Hussars Regiment
• 1er Régiment de Hussards Parachutistes (1er RHP) - French Wikipage