2 e régiment d'infantry

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Régiment de Picardie
2 e régiment d'infanterie

Insigne régimentaire du 2e Régiment d'Infanterie.jpg

Association badge of the 2nd e regiment d'infanterie
active 1780 to 1962
Country Blason France modern.svg Flag of France.svg France
Armed forces Blason France modern.svg Flag of France.svg french army
Armed forces infantry
Type regiment
Location last garrison: Aumale (Algeria)
Patron saint Saint-Maurice d'Agaune
motto Au plus près

The 2 e régiment d'infanterie was an infantry regiment, established in the Kingdom of France and in service during the Ancien Régime (afterwards with a few interruptions) until it was dissolved in 1962.

Before regiment numbering was introduced on January 1, 1791, it was last named Régiment de Picardie in the royal French army .

Lineup and significant changes

  • 1780: The Régiment de Provence was renamed the Régiment de Picardie .
  • 1791: Renamed to: 2 e régiment d'infanterie
  • 1793 First army reform The regiment was than 1 he bataillon (ci-devant Picardie) for 3 e demi-brigade de Bataille and 2 e bataillon (ci-devant Picardie) for 4 e demi-brigade de Bataille off. This ends the regimental association and the line of tradition
  • 1803: Renaming of the "2 e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne" to 2 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne (de facto continuation of the regiment tradition)
  • 1814: renamed the Régiment de la Reine during the restoration
  • 1815: renamed the 2 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne again during the reign of the Hundred Days
  • July 16, 1815: Like the assembled Napoleonic Army, the regiment in Bléré ( Département Indre-et-Loire ) was disbanded.
  • August 11, 1815: Establishment of the 2 e légion de l'Aisne
  • 23 October 1820: the 2 e légion de l'Aisne was renamed in Calais in 2 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne .
  • 1882: Renamed to 2 e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1914: During the mobilization, the regiment set up its reserve regiment, the 202 e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1920: dissolved.
  • 1939: Re-established as the 2nd e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1940: dissolved.
  • 1944: Re-established as the 2nd e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1945: dissolved.
  • 1956: re-established as the 2nd e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1962: Disbanded.

Mestres de camp / Colonels

Mestre de camp was from 1569 to 1661 and from 1730 to 1780 the denomination of rank for the regiment holder and / or for the officer in charge of the regiment. The name "Colonel" was used from 1721 to 1730, from 1791 to 1793 and from 1803 onwards.

After 1791 there were no more regimental owners.

Should the Mestre de camp / Colonel be a person of the high nobility who had no interest in leading the regiment (such as the king or queen), the command was given to the "Mestre de camp lieutenant" (or “Mestre de camp en second”) or the “Colonel-lieutenant” or “Colonel en second”.

  • 1780: Mestre de camp Marc-Antoine, Comte de Lévis-Lugny.
  • 1791: Colonel Charles Léon du Cavigny
  • 1791: Colonel François-Richer Drouet
  • 1792: Colonel Henri Nadot-Fontenay

(...)

  • January 1, 1803: Colonel Pierre-Guillaume Pouchin de la Roche
  • 1805: Colonel Jacques Delga
  • 1809: Colonel Félix Victor Charles Emmanuel de Wimpffen
  • 1813: Colonel Jean Veran André
  • 1813: Colonel Charles Louis Sébastien Staglieno
  • 1814: Colonel Jean Corvinus
  • 1814: Colonel Jean Tripe
  • 1830: Colonel Augustin Pierre de Martimprey
  • 1847: Colonel François Certain de Canrobert
  • 1870: Colonel Amédée Henri Charles de Saint-Hillier
  • 1879–1882: Colonel Théophile Gasser
  • 1909: Colonel François Collas
  • ...
  • 1939: Colonel De Chaine de Bourmont
  • 1944–1945:?
  • 1956–1962:?

Furnishing

Flags

The regiment carried one flag per battalion, and until the revolution also carried a so-called body flag of the regiment owner (Drapeau colonelle) which was always with the 1st company - the body company. It consisted of a white flag with a white cross (embroidered in darker contours).

  • Régiment de Picardie 1780 to 1791

  • 2 e régiment d'infanterie 1791 to 1793 (1st battalion)

  • 2 e régiment d'infanterie 1791 to 1793 (2nd battalion)

  • 2 e régiment d'infanterie 1793 to 1796 (1st battalion)

  • 2 e régiment d'infanterie 1804 to 1812

  • 2 e régiment d'infanterie 1812 to 1814

  • 2 e régiment d'infanterie 1814

  • 2 e régiment d'infanterie 1815

  • 2 e régiment d'infantry 1854

Uniformity

  • 1780-1786

  • 1786-1791

  • 1791-1792

  • 1792-1794

Mission history

The regiment was used in the following wars:

Expedition to North Africa

On July 2, 1664, the regiment, consisting of only four companies (after the end of the war against Spain, was massively disarmed and personnel reduced), was embarked in Toulon. The association was under the command of François de Bourbon-Vendôme, duc de Beaufort and still consisted of the Régiment de Normandie , Régiment de Picardie , Régiment de Navarre and Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux . On June 22nd, the small fleet appeared on the Algerian coast and occupied the city of Jijel . This expedition, however, was a total failure. Diseases decimated the troops to such an extent that the duc d Beaufort finally had to order a retreat. Jijel was left on October 5th and the journey back to Toulon began.

Reunion War

In 1681 the regiment was garrisoned in Breisach when King Louis XIV decided to annex Strasbourg . "Picardy" provided a detachment of 300 men, as well as the Régiment d'Orléans , the Régiment Royal and the Régiment d'Artois , who moved into the city together on October 3rd.

Dutch War (1672 to 1678)

War of the Palatinate Succession (1688 to 1697)

In 1688 the regiment was at the siege of Philippsburg . On October 6, it was able to take the fort on the Rhine together with the Régiment de Jarzé .

War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

War of the Polish Succession (1733-1738)

War of the Austrian Succession (1740 to 1748)

  • in March 1742 the regiment left Strasbourg in the brigade formation with the Régiment d'Appelgrehn and arrived in Donauwörth on April 1st.

Seven Years War

1757 : Battle of Hastenbeck - in brigade formation with the Régiment de La Marine
1760 : Battle near Korbach

Revolutionary army

Battle of Stockach
Second battle for Zurich

Imperial Army

Battle of Aspern ,
Battle of Wagram
First battle at Polotsk
Battle of the Berezina
  • 1813: Campaign in Germany
Battle of Dresden
Battle of the Nations near Leipzig (see also → French order of battle near Leipzig )
  • 1814  : Campaign in France
Battle of La Rothière
  • 1815: Campaign in Belgium
Battle of Ligny
Battle of Waterloo

The following regimental commanders were killed or wounded in the Napoleonic Army:

  • Chef de brigade Perrin: wounded May 12, 1800
  • Colonel Delga: died of his wounds on July 6, 1809
  • Colonel Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen: Wounded on August 18, 1812 near Polotzk
  • Colonel Staglieno: Wounded October 18, 1813

Wounded and fallen officers:

  • fallen: 40
  • died of her wounds: 19
  • wounded: 149

Royal Army 1815–1848

Battles at Bar-T'outa on April 15th and 18th, 1843

Second empire

In 1870 the regiment was stationed in Tours .

Franco-German War

On August 1, 1870, the regiment belonged to the Armée du Rhin. Together with the 63 e régiment d'infantry and 10 e bataillon de chasseurs à pied (Commandant Schenk) making it the 1st Brigade under General Doens. This formed, together with the 2nd Brigade (Général Micheler), two batteries of four mitrailleuses each and a pioneer company, the 3rd Infantry Division under Général de division Merle de Labruguière de Laveaucoupet in the 2nd Army Corps of Général de division Frossard.

  • On August 6th, the regiment fought in the Battle of Spichern . The regimental commander, Colonel Amédée Henri Charles de Saint-Hillier, was so badly wounded in this battle at the head of his regiment that he died of these injuries on the same day.

On August 16, 1870, a fourth battalion was formed from those who were called up. After leaving the recruit depot, it was placed in the "5 e régiment de marche" (5th march regiment). This belonged to the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division in the 13th Army Corps.

First World War

At the beginning of the war, the regiment consisting of three battalions in Granville (Manche) and Querqueville was in garrison. It belonged to the 40th Brigade in the 20th Infantry Division of the 10th Army Corps.

1914

1915

1916

1917

  • Trench warfare on Mont Blond, Cornillet
  • Trench warfare near Verdun , height 344, Samogneux, Woëvre .

1918

Second World War

on September 9, 1939, the regiment was reorganized under the command of Colonel De Chaine de Bourmont and belonged to the 20th Infantry Division. It was set up by the “Center mobilisateur d'infanterie 44” in Rennes . The regiment was classified as "Réserve A RI type NE". It fought as far as it could until the armistice and went under after the French surrender. Further information is not available.

In the course of the advance of the Allied troops in France in 1944, it was reactivated briefly, but released again immediately after the end of the war.

Algerian war

After some renaming, amalgamation and dissolution, the regiment was activated for the last time in 1956 to be used in the Algerian War. It was stationed in Aumale (today Sour El Ghozlane). Before its withdrawal in 1962, the 2 ° RI set up two units of local forces, the 466 ° UFL-UFO and the 467 ° UFL-UFO (Unités de la Force locale de l'ordre Algérienne). These units consisted of 10% of the urban population and 90% of the rural population (French: Militaires Musulmans) and served in the transition period until independence of the provisional Algerian government.

Barracks of the regiment in Granville

The last barracks of the regiment on French soil was the "Caserne de Roc" in Granville (Manche)

  • Commemorative plaque for the 2nd e régiment d'infanterie, stationed here from 1873 to 1920.

  • Commemorative plaque for those who participated in the war in the 2nd e and 202 e régiment d'infanterie 1914–1918.

  • Caserne du Roc Granville.

  • Barracks building.

Awards

With order 153 F of September 11, 1918, the members of the regiment (even if they were re-established) were given the right to wear the Fourragère in the colors of the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 .

The flag ribbon was awarded the Croix de guerre 1914–1918. Awarded on the occasion of two honorable mentions in Army Orders - for the 1st and 2nd Battalion on December 17, 1914 and for the 3rd Battalion on June 15, 1915. Croix de guerre 2 p.png

Regimental flag

On the back of the regimental flag (since Napoleonic times) the campaigns and battles in which the regiment took part are listed in gold letters.

  • front

  • back

In its history, the regiment carried a good dozen different flags one after the other

Motto

Au plus près
(As close [to the enemy] as possible)

Known members of the regiment

literature

  • Cinquième abrégé de la carte du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer - Depuis novembre 1737, jusqu'en décembre 1738 , Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris 1739
  • État militaire de France pour l'année 1760 , par les sieurs de Montandre-Longchamps, troisième édition, chez Guyllin, Paris 1760
  • Chronique historique-militaire , Pinard, tomes 4, 5 et 7, Paris 1761, 1762 et 1764
  • À partir du Recueil d'historiques de l'infanterie française (Général Andolenko - Eurimprim 1969)

Web links

Commons : Flags of the 2nd regiment d'infanterie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ There is no information about this Régiment de Provence. It only existed from 1776 to 1780
  2. ↑ which had nothing to do with the former 2 e regiment d'infanterie
  3. ↑ in order to isolate themselves from the Napoleonic spirit, the regiments were now called "Legion de ...".
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: napoleon-et-la-grande-armee.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / napoleon-et-la-grande-armee.com
  5. ^ Opération du 13e corps d'armée (France) durant le "Siège de Paris (1870)" par le Général Vinoy, pp. 7 & 15
  6. ↑ not to be confused with Aumale (Seine-Maritime)
  7. ↑ «  Décision n ° 12350 / SGA / DPMA / SHD / DAT du 14 September 2007 relative aux inscriptions de noms de batailles sur les drapeaux et étendards des corps de troupe de l'armée de terre, du service de santé des armées et du service des essences des armées, Bulletin officiel des armées, n ° 27, 9 November 2007  »(German:“ Provision n ° 12350 / SGA / DPMA / SHD / DAT of September 14, 2007 on the appearance of the inscriptions on the flags and standards of the Troops of the army, the medical service and the fuel supply branch. Published with the official army bulletin No. 27 of November 9, 2007 ")
  8. ↑ "  Arrêté relatif à l'attribution de l'inscription AFN 1952–1962 sur les drapeaux et étendards des formations des armées et services, du 19 novembre 2004 (A) NORDEF0452926A Michèle Alliot-Marie  " (German: "Order AFN 1952–1962 on the assignment of the inscriptions on the flags and standards of the formations of the army and the services of November 19, 2004 (A) NORDEF0452926A Michèle Alliot-Marie ")
  9. ↑ This also applies to units that have already been disbanded, as they can (theoretically) be put back into active service at any time