The Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard were a light cavalry unit of Egyptian origin that served in Napoleon’s Imperial Guard from 1801 to 1815. It was the third cavalry formation integrated into the Guar
Charge of the Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard on the streets of Madrid, during the Dos de Mayo Uprising. Illustration by Job, 1929.
Mamelouk by Louis Dupré, 1825
Mamelukes of the Guard in a military parade by Felician Myrbach
Mamelukes charge the Russian cavalry of Grand Duke Konstantin along with the mounted chasseurs during the Battle of Austerlitz. Painting by Felician Myrbach, 1906.
Second White Terror
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The Second White Terror occurred in France in 1815–1816, following the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and the enthronement of Louis XVIII as King of France after the Hundred Days. Suspec
Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard
…king's return, the so-called "true" Mamelukes were finally sent back to the Marseille depot: many of them were murdered there in a massacre during the White Terror of 1815. In 1830, a handful of survivors accompanied the French troops at the start of the conquest of Algeria as interpreters. Around the 1230s, the Sultan…
The murder of Guillaume Brune, Marshal of the Empire, by a royalist mob in Avignon on 2 August 1815, engraved c. 1865
The Execution of Marshal Ney, 1868 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme