Cuirassier - Cuirassiers Today

Cuirassiers Today

• France maintains one historic cuirassier regiment as an armoured unit:
  • the 12e Régiment de Cuirassiers based at Olivet.
• Italy maintains the Cuirassiers' Regiment (Italian: Reggimento Corazzieri), who are the honour guard of the President of the Italian Republic. They are part of the Carabinieri.
• Spain maintains a cavalry detachment as part of the Spanish Royal Guard; they wear cuirasses and are sometimes known as cuirassiers (Spanish: Coraceros). Their proper title is Royal Escort Squadron (Escuadrón de Escolta Real).
• The British Household Cavalry wear cuirasses as part of their parade equipment on formal occasions but were never formally designated as cuirassiers, instead retaining the titles Lifeguards and Horse Guards.
• In Argentina and Chile, three army units (two in the Argentine Army and one in the Chilean Army) are cuirassier cavalry regiments. The Chilean unit is the 1st Armored Brigade "Cuirassiers" and the Argentine units are the 7th Tank Cavalry (Colonel Ramon Estomba's Cuirassiers); and the 4th Mountain Cavalry Regiments