Britain possessed no armoured Cuirassiers or Heavy cavalry. The Austrian grenadiers and cuirassiers would advance between the rivers. After 1859 all but two Austrian dragoon regiments were converted to cuirassiers or disbanded. The French cuirassiers wore plumed helmets and breastplates almost unchanged from the Napoleonic period. He enlisted in the Prussian army and became commander of the sixth regiment of cuirassiers. The encircled 2d Cuirassiers were freed by an armoured counterattack from the 2DLM. After 1650, plate armour was mostly reduced to the simple breastplate (cuirass) worn by cuirassiers. It was also used by some heavily armoured, pistol-armed, cuirassiers into the mid 17th century. Robert Hill was wounded in the clash with the 4th Cuirassiers, shot by a chasseur. Behind this sector stood one squadron of SOMUA tanks of the 1st Cuirassiers at Marilles. The Austrian cuirassiers were abolished in 1868. Frederick sent 4,300 men into this assault, immediately losing 206 of Prince Henry's cuirassiers. Cuirassier Regiment Nr. 5, and the remnant of the "Gensdarmes" Cuirassiers. Kulikovsky was appointed as captain in the Blue Cuirassiers and posted to the provinces. The S35 medium tank entered service in January 1936 with the "4e Cuirassiers".