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NAP-35 - 6th Regiment Tauride Grenadier - 6^th Tavricheskiy Grenaderskiy Polk - Russie, 1812-1814
The 6^th Tavricheskiy Grenaderskiy Polk (6th Tauride/Taurida Grenadiers) or Tauride 6th Grenadier Regiment, was a historic regiment of the 1st Grenadier Division of the Napoleonic Russian Army. Named after it's location, the 6th was a regiment based out of Crimea (Tauride). The 6y was established March 30, 1756, and was disbanded some time in 1918 before the rise of the Soviet Union.
 
March 14, 1801 - Tauride Grenadier Regiment.
April 30, 1802 - Reformed into three four-quarter battalions.
December 2, 1805 - participated in the Battle of Austerlitz .
1806 - determined in the 3rd Infantry Division.
June 2, 1807 - participated in the Battle of Friedland .
 
1811 - is defined in the 1st Grenadier Division.
August 26, 1812 - participated in the battle of Borodino: «The enemy, seeing the thin success of his attempts (on Utitsky mound), began to force a bush dividing our right flank from the left second army, and to detain him was sent there the Tauride Grenadier Regiment under the command of Colonel Sulima. Thus this bloody battle continued to the very best of times, which, despite the superiority of the enemy, was completely unsuccessful for him and gave a new proof of the courage of the e. at."
 
1813-1814 - participated in the foreign campaigns of the Russian army, reached Paris .August 12, 1817 - Appointed to the military settlements in the Novgorod province as part of the 1st Corps.
 
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