They took part in the German campaign of 1813 with the Old Guard, before being detached in 1814 to the Armée du Nord commanded by general Nicolas-Joseph Maison.

The Young Guard horse chasseurs were definitively disbanded on October 26, 1815, following Napoleon's abdication and the return of the Bourbons.

[4] During the First Restoration, under the May 12, 1814 ordinance reorganizing the French army corps, most of the Jeune Garde horse chasseurs were transferred to the cavalry of the line.,[5] in the 2nd, 3rd and 7th horse chasseurs[6] During the Hundred Days, Napoleon re-established the Imperial Guard and ordered the formation of a Young Guard cavalry regiment.

[4] In December 1813, General Lefebvre-Desnouettes was sent to the Netherlands with the Young Guard mounted chasseurs, to recapture the town of Bréda from the Allies and cover Antwerp.

On March 31, the Young Guard squadrons charged again at the battle of Courtrai, losing five killed and two officers wounded.

[4] Meuziau served in the German campaign in 1813, then in 1814 in the Armée du Nord commanded by General Maison, who was then operating in Belgium.

In 1815, during the Hundred Days, General Eugène Antoine François Merlin was appointed commanding officer of the newly-formed 2nd Regiment of Horse Chasseurs, with the rank of major-colonel.

[19] He was assisted by squadron commanders Assant, Jacobi, Chazanges and Cardon, adjutants-majors Prégu and Beller, paymaster Duclos, surgeon-major Garnier and major Thomassini.

The first is the truncated cone-shaped shako, depicted in a portrait of Lieutenant de Girardin of the 2nd Chasseurs, and similar to that of the Guards of Honor.

Commandant Bucquoy notes that both possibilities are equally valid, pointing out that the truncated cone-shaped shako may have been worn in 1813 during the German campaign, and that the cylindrical shako, "modelled on those received by the second regiment of Éclaireurs at the same time", may have been issued when the chasseurs à cheval left for Belgium in early 1814.

Commandant Bucquoy specifies that it is a cylindrical shako, with cordons and snowshoes, but adds that the location and even existence of the latter for the troop uniform is not certain.

The shako of the Jeune Garde horse hunters, based on a drawing by General Vanson, is carmine red, with green and yellow braid and an oval pompom in the same colors.

In fact, it was the pelisses originally intended for the Old Guard mounted chasseurs that were eventually sent to Chantilly to dress the 2nd regiment.

However, collector Léonce Bernardin, in an article published in the 1925 Carnet de la Sabretache, asserts that only the trumpeter-major's sky-blue dolman was made.

[24] Léonce Bernardin wrote of the regiment's trumpeters in 1815 that they "wore crimson pelisse, sky-blue pants and side caps".

[25] This uniform, reproduced by Ernest Fort, details a garance shako with green and yellow pompom and cord, a crimson pelisse with yellow braids and braids edged with black fur, and sky-blue pants with a double garance stripe.

The belt is described as being made of "mixed madder and green braids; gold olives", but Commandant Bucquoy notes that he has never seen any depiction of it.

[30] From 1813 to 1814, buffleteries gear was white for the troops, with a black leather cartridge box and sabretache for field dress.

In full dress, the sabretache is made of green cloth with aurora braiding, with a crowned eagle coat of arms in the center.

Bucquoy notes, however, that a chabraque with only one piping is impossible, and concludes that there is either an omitted aurora braid, or a slip of the tongue with the word "galon" instead of "passepoil".

The defeat at Waterloo and Napoleon's abdication led to the disbandment of the corps, and the eagle, deposited at Bourges on August 27, was destroyed there on October 22.