1866 - ITALIAN THIRD WAR OF INDIPENDENCE - THE LANCIERI

 With the end of the Second Italian Indipendence War the Piedmontese Army undewent a strong increasing of volunteers and troops. Following to this, the size of the Army (still formally called Sardinian Army) increased as well as the Cavalry troops. The idea was in any way to increase the Piedmontese war system expanding to all the new units. This system is still nowadays worgink if you think for example that the Italian officers still wear a blue sash, as in the Piedmontese Army.

The cavalry underwent to the same process and so, next to the historical 4 regiments:

Reggimento Nr. 1 "Nizza Cavalleria"

Reggimento Nr. 2 "Piemonte Cavalleria"

Reggimento Nr. 3 "Savoia Cavalleria"

Reggimento Nr. 4 "Genova Cavalleria"

In the years 1860 on were hence formed 7 new Lancieri (some originally Cavalleggeri and then changed as lancieri) Regiments, each with a particular distiguishing colour.

I propose here templates of all 7 Regiments (from nr. 5 till 11, because the numbers continued one after the other) in their campaign dress, considering that in the parade uniform the kepy was of the distinctive colour as well

The officers of each regiment had the stripes of the trousers of the distintive colour, as well as the kepy (for all)

Finally it went out they had no carabines and no numbers. So I modified again (here bottom)