2nd Cuirassier Regiment, 1815 Size:A4 where they took part in

where they took part in the defeat of the “Tiger of Mysore”

It served for three centuries and was in action during the First and the Second World Wars

The morning thereafter became dull with the battalion unable to see any of the action from their position in a ravine on the right of the battlefield but at about three in the afternoon they received orders to advance and marched into an open valley with the hill opposite fringed by French cannon

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2nd Cuirassier Regiment, 1815 Size:A4 where they took part inThe 2nd Cuirassier Regiment (2e rgiment de cuirassiers or 2e RC) was an armoured unit of the French Army, which originated as a cavalry and then a cuirassier regiment. It was descended from the rgiment Cardinal Duc, which is at the top of the list of twelve cavalry regiments created by the same royal ordnance of 16 May 1635 this made the 2nd Cuirassier Regiment the oldest surviving cavalry regiment in the French Army until its disbandment in 1991