dissolved on September 1, 1814 and its regiments were constituted in the same way as the Dutch regiments. On June 1, 1815, this regiment took the name of Light Dragoons No. 5. Commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel de Mercx, he distinguished himself at the battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo against the Napoleonic armies. On October 5, 1820, the Regiment receives its Standard in Tournai, a city that, since 1780, was already the garrison town of the Light horse squadron of the Latour Dragoons. Ten years later, on October 24, 1830, the 1st lancers regiment was formed in Tervuren by decision of the provisional government. The Belgian elements of the 5th light dragoons and some elements of the 4th light dragoons and the 10th lancers are gathered to form the regiment. During the Ten-Day Campaign, he was integrated into the Army of the Scheldt and a detachment participated in the Battle of Bautersem. In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian war, the regiment was mobilized on a war footing and was integrated into the cavalry reserve of the observation army. In 1871, he took up residence in Namur. In August 1831, the Regiment became part of the Army of the Scheldt and took part in the Ten Days Campaign. A squadron of the 1st Lancers was attached to the vanguard which fought on August 11, the battle of Bautersem, during the march of the army of the Scheldt, from Louvain to Tirlemont. On August 12, three squadrons protected, from Bautersem to beyond Leuven, the retreat of this same army. It was in Mechelen that King Leopold I handed over, on January 3, 1832, the Etendard of the 1st Lancers Regiment to Colonel Charles-Ferdinand de THIERRY. In 1832 and 1833, the 1st Lancers cooperated in the service of the outposts established towards the Dutch border. In 1870, during the Franco-German war, the Regiment mobilized on war footing became part of the cavalry reserve of the observation army. In 1871, the danger passed, he garrisoned in Namur, a city that he had to leave only 43 years later to enter the campaign on August 1, 1914.