Hompesch Hussars

The Hompesch Hussars (Hompesch Husaren) was a auxiliary French regiment of the British Army formed during the French Revolutionary Wars as part of the Armée des Émigres.
Hussars.
On 27 February 1794, Baron Chares von Compesch raised the Hompesch Hussars in Schwarm, Electorate of Hanover, consisting of three squadrons, each of three troops, each of three officers and 81 men. Officers were mostly former French Royal Army, mostly Germans, Hungarians, and French émigrés. The regiment then joined the British Army of the Duke of York and Albany in Holland during August. Later serving in the Flanders Campaign, participating the following battles: Battle of Boxtel, Battle of Nijmegen, and was granted the battle honour "Flanders" for its participation.
By January 1795, the regiment returned to the Kingdom of Hanover and later that month a fourth squadron was raised.
In December 1795 the regiment moved to the Isle of Wight, and was renamed as the Prince of Wales's (Homepesch's) Hussars, named after the future King George IV who inspected the regiment that month on the Isle of Wight. In March 1796 the regiment was embarked for Santo Domingo, where it arrived in May 1796.
Mounted Chasseurs.
In September 1796 the regiment was redesignated and reorganised as Hompesch's Mounted Chasseurs of three companies in Germany. While the main group of the regiment was still in Santo Domingo, the new unit was moved to the Isle of Wight, while the old regiment was depleted by disease and ceased to exist there with its remants moving to England.
On 30 December 1797 the regiment was placed on the British Establishment (effectively making it a regiment of the Briish Army, as this meant it was now in the pay of the King). On 9 January 1798, the regiment was redesignated as Hompesch's Regiment of Mounted Riflemen and reformed from the three companies and depleted numbers of the old regiment, however was also known at this point as the following: Hompesch's Light Dragoons, Hompesch's Hussars, or the Jaeger Regiment zu Pferd des Herrn General Major Freiherrn Frdinand von Hompesch.
In April 1798 the regiment moved to the Kingdom of Ireland and participated in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, including the Battle of Wexford, and remained on garrison duties thereafter. For their participation, the regiment was granted the battle honour "Ireland".
In 1800 the regiment was embarked at Cork, and arrived in Malta by June, and in July a detachment of 164 men participated in a raid on the Spanish Coast. The detachment here participated in the Battle of Ferrol and Battle of Cadiz.
Later in 1800 the regiment was consolidated in Malta, and shortly thereafter sent a detachment to Egypt. There the regiment took part in several battles including: Battle of Roman Camp, Battle of Alexandria, Battle of Cairo, and the Siege of Alexandria. Following the regiment's service in Egypt, a medal entitled "Egypt 1801" was awarded with the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt", which was awarded in 1802.
In 1802 the regiment returned to Cork, and later moved to Southampton, and was finally disbanded, following the end of the War of the Second Coalition, on 28 September 1802 in Portsmouth.
Colonels.
The following commanded the regiment:
Uniforms.
Green dolman with scarlet collar and cuffs, green pelisse trimmed with black fur, white cords, pewter buttons; crimson and white sash, scarlet breeches laced white; black boots trimmed white; scarlet shako with white band, cords and plume, black cockade edged white, white loop; scarlet sabretache trimmed with white; green housings edged scarlet, piped white on the inside; green valise edged scarlet. Armed with sabre and carbine; black accoutrements. The officers had silver buttons, cords and lace; it was said that officers’ buttons bore the Prince of Wales’s three plumes and motto ‘Ich Dien’ in 1796.
In 1798 the uniform changed to that of dragoons with the following: green uniform (officers in gold buttons and epaulettes), scarlet facings, scarlet breeches, and black accoutrements. The headdress consisted of a scarlet shako with black band and white over red plume.