12th Cuirassier Regiment (France)

12e Régiment de Cuirassiers
The Regiment's standard, with its battle honours
Active	1668-1815 1854-1928 1940-1942 1943-1994 2009-
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	Cavalry
Size	940 personnel
Part of	2nd Armoured Brigade
Garrison/HQ	Quartier Valmy, Olivet
Motto(s)	In periculo ludunt (Amidst danger, they play)

The 12th Cuirassier Regiment (French: 12e Régiment de Cuirassiers, 12e RC) is an armoured cavalry (tank) regiment of the French Army. It provides the armoured component of the 2nd Armoured Brigade. Currently stationed at Quartier Valmy, Olivet, France.

First formed in 1688 under the Ancien Régime.

It distinguished itself in the Revolutionary Wars.

It took part at the battles of Austerlitz (1805), Jena (1806) and Borodino (1812).

The writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline volunteered for this regiment in 1912.

Garnison de Départ : Rambouillet. Turned into the 12e régiment de cuirassiers à pied

Became the 12e Régiment de cuirassiers again in 1919. It was disbanded in 1928.

After having been a garrison force at Müllheim in Germany for a long time in the post-1945 period, it was amalgamated, in 1994, with the 6th Cuirassier Regiment to form the 6th-12th Cuirassier Regiment, based at Olivet in Loiret.

In 2009, the two units were delinked and the 6th Cuirassiers deactivated; the 12th Cuirassiers was re-established as an individual unit.

Their symbol is a white dolphin on a blue shield.

The regiment is composed of around 940 personnel organization into 10 squadrons.

*These officers became generals de brigade after this.

As part of the Army of the Rhine from 1792 to 1800:

(*) Battle honour on this regiment's flag