Dragoons No. 4 - Du Roi

Inhaber
1748 Count de Scey, 1761 Marquis de Créquy

Unit History
The unit was raised in July 1743 from six companies. Each company came from a different Dragoon regiment: Royal, Mestre de Camp General, Bauffremont, Orleans, Nicolai, and Mailly.
In 1757 it was brigaded with the Flammarens Dragoons and participated at the sieges of the fortresses at Gueldres and Juliers; then the conquest of the Haute Frise and later occupied Meppen, Venner, Leer and Emben. In December 1757, it joined the French army at Celle. In 1758, the regiment fought at Krefeld subsequently seizing the town of Schwartzhausen and the castle of Calze. Later the unit skirmished at Lutzelberg.
At Bergen, 1759, the regiment was in the 3rd line along with the La Ferronnays Dragoons and both saw little action. That fall the regiment participated at Minden. In 1760, the unit was engaged at Warburg. Distinguished itself at Radern chasing away enemy cavalry established on the heights. It helped withstand the siege of Ziegenheim.
In 1761 engaged at Kindelbruck. In February 1761, attacked an artillery convoy and took seven cannons at Kreimberg. Later the unit quartered in Eimbeck. Later that August, the Hanoverian Freicorps, Luckner, attacked the infantry regiment, Belzunce (No.10), on the heights of Alsar. After the French infantry flags were taken, an officer and two dragoons from the regiment, Du Roi, rode after the enemy and after a brief skirmish re-took the flags that were restored to their colonels. The regiment performed as a regular unit.

Comments
This is one of my ‘Bergen’ units. Given the choices of dragoon units are limited by the OB, I have ended up painting all dragoon units present at the battle. One minor side effect of the switch from 24 man units to 8 man units was that I ended up with a lot of French Dragoons. The result is that I have a lopsided weighting of French Dragoons to Cuirassiers. Unit repainted in 2003.

Sources
Flag: Nec Pluribus Impar site at http://vial.jean.free.fr/new_npi/index.html
Text: Nec Pluribus Impar site at http://vial.jean.free.fr/new_npi/index.html