21st Lithuanian Mounted Rifle Regiment
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Lithuania (1812)| 21st Lithuanian Mounted Rifle Regiment | |
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| Active | 1812–1813 |
| Country | Lithuania (1812) |
| Engagements | French invasion of Russia |
| Commanders | |
| First and only | Ignacy Moniuszko |
21st Lithuanian Mounted Rifle Regiment – chasseurs à cheval regiment of the Army of the Duchy of Warsaw.
This regiment is problematic in historiogaphy, due to some sources saying it was the 21st Uhlan Regiment, others suggest there were two regiments numbered 21; still others call it a cavalry regiment, without specifying its type.
Formed from volunteers on September 22, 1812, in Vilnius.[3]
Aleksander Pociej took the initiative to establish the 21st Mounted Rifle Regiment. However, he lacked sufficient funds, and as a result, the regiment's number was transferred to a unit organized by Ignacy Moniuszko.[4] Moniuszko's regiment also incorporated the embryonic hussar regiment organized by Mikołaj and Ignacy Abramowicz (who later became a major in the mounted rifle regiment), and the regiment organized in Pinsk by Colonel Jan Grzymała-Lubański.[4] In November, the regiment's only assembled squadron numbered 10 officers and 258 soldiers,[4] most of them without a mount.
The regiment took part in the Napoleonic campaign against Russia.
Regimental colour - orange[5], but it was called an uhlan regiment in the publication.
