The regiment was made up of three squadrons, headed by 60 officers personally selected by Napoleon.

The unit's numbers rose to 1269 in 1807 with the addition of two new squadrons, and on December 9, 1813, it was attached to the Guard's 3rd regiment of éclaireurs.

The dragoons' uniform and weaponry was the same as those of the Guard's horse grenadiers, only in green rather than blue, and (in place of the bonnet à poil) a copper dragoon helmet with a hanging mane in the Neo-Greek Minerve style, with a red plume.

[1] The trumpeters wore a light blue tunic with white lapels and crimson turn backs and collar.

The Dragoon Guards wore green coats with white lapels and red turnbacks.