Imperial and Royal Dragoons
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Together with the Hussars and Uhlans, the Imperial and Royal Dragoons made up the cavalry of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1867 to 1914.
Colonel-in-chief of the 3rd Dragoons King Frederick Augustus of Saxony
Archduke Albert K.H. Colonel-in-chief in perpetuity of the 9th Dragoons
Colonel-in-chief in perpetuity of the 13th Dragoons FM Prinz Eugen
helmet of an officer of Imperial and Royal Dragoner
Common Army
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The Common Army, as it was officially designated by the Imperial and Royal Military Administration, was the largest part of the Austro-Hungarian land forces from 1867 to 1914, the other two elements b
Imperial and Royal Dragoons
…the Cisleithanian half of the Empire also began to build its own army, the Imperial-Royal Landwehr. These two new forces thus existed alongside the Common Army (Gemeinsame Armee) that represented the empire as a whole. However, unlike the hussars and uhlans, there were no dragoon units in either of the two…
The barracks of the 3rd Uhlans in Bielitz (now Bielsko-Biała) is still used today by the Polish Armed Forces.
1867 uniform regulation (1911/12 edition).
Imperial and Royal Cavalry around 1900
Steyr M1912