Filiation
Double heritage:
- 1656: Foreign Dragoons of the King (Dragons étrangers du Roi)
- 1668: Colonel-General Regimen (Régiment Colonel-Général), formed by the duplication of the Foreign Dragoons of the King
- 1791: 5th Dragoon Regiment
- 1814: Dragoon Regiment of the Dauphin (n°3)
- 1815: 5th Dragoon Regiment
- 1816: Dragoon Regiment of the Hérault (n°5)
- 1825: 5th Dragoon Regiment
- 1928: Disbanded
- 1929: Recreated following the traditions of the 6thgroup of cyclist chasseurs (6e groupe de chasseurs cyclistes (6th DC) and of the 5th dragoons under the name of 5th carrier dragoons battalion
- 1939: 5th Dragoon Regiment
- 1942: Disbanded
- 1944: 5th Dragoon Regiment
- 1946: Disbanded
- 1948: 5th Dragoon Regiment
- 1951: Disbanded
- 1953: 5th Dragoon Regiment
- 1964: Disbanded and immediately recreated with elements from the 7th Chasseurs Regiment of Africa (7e Régiment de chasseurs d'Afrique (7e RCA )
- 2003: Disbanded on June 30, 2003.
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