The 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment (French: 13e Régiment de Dragons Parachutistes) (13e RDP) is a Airborne Special forces Regiment of the French Army. It is one of two regiments in the Army Special Forces Brigade, which is under the control of the COS (Special Operations Command). The regiment's primary duties are airborne Reconnaissance operations. The French Army (French: Armée de Terre) is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Badge of the BFST. The Army Special Forces Brigade (French: Brigade des Forces Spéciales Terre) (BFST) based in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques is the French Armies special forces unit. ... Dieuze is a town and commune in the Moselle département, Lorraine région in northeastern France. ... Airborne Military parachuting form of insertion. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A regiment is a military unit, consisting of a variable number of battalions - - commanded by a colonel. ... The French Army (French: Armée de Terre) is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces. ... Badge of the BFST. The Army Special Forces Brigade (French: Brigade des Forces Spéciales Terre) (BFST) based in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques is the French Armies special forces unit. ... The Commandement des Opérations Spéciales (Special Operations Command, COS) is the French organism which coordinates the use of the French special forces of all military branches (Army, Navy, Air Force and Gendarmerie). ... Mixed reconnaissance patrol of the Polish Home Army and the Soviet Red Army during Operation Tempest, 1944 Reconnaissance is the military term for the active gathering of information about an enemy, or other conditions, by physical observation. ...

History

Origins

Marquis de Barbezières raised a dragoon regiment in Languedoc on 4 October 1676. In 1724 the name was changed to dragons de Condé. A light dragoon from the American Revolution French dragoon, 1745. ... October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer Bacons Rebellion Russo-Turkish Wars commence. ... Events January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. ...

Kosovo

The 13e RDP was, along with other French units, heavily involved in the Kosovo War and used tactics and technology to force Serbian Armor to attempt to engage Kosovo Liberation Army and other allied forces in the open, which enabled them to be destroyed by Allied bombing, particularly by the United States Air Force and the Royal Air Force. The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ... Armoured forces, collectively the armoured or armour, are military forces traditionally equipped with heavy armour. ... Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës. ... Aircraft of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and coalition counterparts stationed together at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in southwest Asia, fly over the desert. ... RAF redirects here. ...

Mission

The 13e RDP performs reconnaissance in hostile terrain, and acts as special forces. The 13e RDP uses high-tech instruments to scan and observe enemy movements. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Honours

Battle Honours

• Valmy 1792
• Hohenlinden 1800
• Austerlitz 1805
• Iéna 1806
• La Moskowa 1812
• Ypres 1914
• Verdun 1916
• AFN 1952–1962

Combatants France Prussia Commanders Dumouriez Kellermann Duke of Brunswick Strength 47,000 35,000 Casualties 300 184 The Battle of Valmy (September 20, 1792) saw the inexperienced armies of revolutionary France drive out an invading allied army. ... Combatants First French Republic Austrian empire Commanders General Moreau Archduke John Strength 180,000 120,000 Casualties 6,000 dead and wounded 8,000 dead and wounded, 12,000 captured, 200 cannons lost The Battle of Hohenlinden near Munich was fought on December 3, 1800, during the French Revolutionary Wars. ... Combatants First French Empire Russian Empire Austrian Empire Commanders Napoleon I Alexander I Strength 67,000[1] 73,000[2] Casualties 1,305 dead 6,940 wounded 573 captured about 9,000 total 1 standard lost[3] 15,000 dead or wounded 12,000 captured about 27,000 total 180... Combatants First French Empire Prussia Commanders Napoleon I Louis Nicolas Davout Duke of Brunswick Prince Hohenlohe Strength 90,000 (Jena); 27,000 (Auerstedt) 38,000 (Jena); 63,000 (Auerstedt) Casualties 5,000 dead and wounded (Jena); 7,000 killed, wounded, or missing (Auerstedt) 25,000 dead, wounded, or captured (Jena... Combatants First French Empire Russian Empire Commanders Napoleon I Mikhail Kutuzov Strength 130,000 600 cannon[1] 154,000 624 cannon[1] Casualties 35,000[1] 44,000[1] The Battle of Borodino (Russian: , French: ) (September 7, 1812, or August 26 in the Julian calendar then used in Russia), was... Combatants United Kingdom France German Empire Commanders John French Ferdinand Foch Erich von Falkenhayn Strength UK: 7 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry divisions France: ? Fourth and Sixth Armies Casualties UK: 58,000 France: 50,000 130,000 The First Battle of Ypres, also called the Battle of Flanders, was the last... Combatants France German Empire Commanders Philippe Pétain Robert Nivelle Erich von Falkenhayn Strength About 30,000 on 21 February 1916 About 150,000 on 21 February 1916 Casualties 378,000; of whom 120,000 died 337,000; of whom 100,000 died The Battle of Verdun was one of... Combatants FLN (1954-62) MNA (1954-62) France (1954-62) FAF (1960-61) OAS (1961-62) Commanders Mostefa Benboulaïd Ferhat Abbas Hocine Aït Ahmed Ahmed Ben Bella Krim Belkacem Larbi Ben MHidi Rabah Bitat Mohamed Boudiaf Messali Hadj General Jacques Massu General Maurice Challe Bachaga Said Boualam...

Decorations

• Croix de guerre 1939-45 with palmes.

The Croix de guerre is a military decoration of both Belgium and France which was first created in 1915. ...

External links

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