The 5th Dragoon Regiment (5e Régiment de Dragons or 5e RD) is a cavalry unit of the French Army, created under the Ancien Régime in 1656 and reactivated in 2015.

As part of Napoleon's Grande Armée it fought at Wertingen, Austerlitz in 1805, Nasielsk in 1806, Eylau, and the Battle of Friedland in 1807.

On July 31, 1914, the regiment was assigned to the Sordet cavalry corps, brigaded with the 21st Dragoons in General Lastour's 5th Division.

From August 23 to September 4, the regiment covered the retreat of the French Army after the defeat at the Battle of Charleroi.

In the "Race to the Sea" from September 14, the 5th Dragoons crossed the Somme at Péronne, fighting in the First Battle of Arras, Picardy, in Lens on October 4, an attack by foot in Riez-Bailleul where it pushed the enemy back several kilometres.

1917: On March 19, the 5th Dragoon reaches Noyon, where it is employed in discovery missions in the surroundings of Chauny-Tergnier and then, by foot, goes back in the trenches in the Coucy sector.

In July, in Villesaint, the Germans, who had taken over Dermans and Château-Tierry and has crossed the Marne are driven back, after several counter-attacks, by-foot members of the 5th Dragoon.

Significantly diminished, the remaining elements pulled back and took position 4 km (2.5 mi) from Hirson, after which they regrouped in Le Nouvion on May 16.

On November 8, 1942, following the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa, the regiment was sent to Toulon to participate in coastal defence, which lasted 10 days.

On Easter Monday of 1945 in Chambéry, General de Gaulle gave the regiment its banner back.

Double heritage: Colonel Generals (from 1668) It bears, sewed in golden letters in its layers, the following inscriptions:[2] Its tie is decorated: The first badge was designed in 1929 by Captain Lemaire.

The mane was exaggeratedly widened in order to accommodate the crowned monogram of king Louis XIV, framing the number 5.