Volontaires de Saxe

The Volontaires de Saxe (also known as Volontaires du Maréchal de Saxe) were a military unit of cavalry troops recruited by French field marshal Maurice de Saxe to guard the Château de Chambord, his residence. The unit fought in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) and in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).

Sources

Henri, comte de La Bassetière: Maurice de Saxe et ses Uhlands (1748-1750), dans Loire-et Cher historique, 15 mai 1893 (pp. 130-139) et 15 juin 1893 (pp. 162-178) (Bibl. de l’Institut catholique de Paris); nach: André Corvisier, L'armée française de la fin du XVIIe siècle au ministère de Choiseul, tome I, Paris 1964
Liliane und Fred Funcken, Historische Uniformen, Bd. 2, München 1978

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