33 e régiment d'infantry

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Régiment de Touraine
33 e regiment d'infanterie

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Badge of 33 e régiment d'infantry
active 1625 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 Arras
Patron saint Saint-Maurice d'Agaune
commander
Important
commanders

Philippe Pétain

Regimental flag 1636 to 1791
The fusilier Jean Thurel; he served actively in the regiment for 75 years

The 33 e régiment d'infanterie ( 33 e RI ) was an association of French infantry. The regiment distinguished itself from its formation in all wars with French participation up to the First World War . It no longer exists today.

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

Lineup and significant changes

In 1625, King Ludwig XIII. the Maréchal de Bassompierre , during his stay in Angers , to persuade the local governor, the Baron du Plessis-Joigny, to set up a regiment of infantry at his own expense. The Baron du Plessis-Joigny then took on an older garrison company that had been in Angers Castle for a long time , and recruited nine more companies. He was only able to take up his post as Mestre de camp on April 29, but the actual patent is dated January 25, 1625.

  • April 29, 1625: Established as Régiment de Plessis-Joigny with the date of construction January 25, 1625
  • October 1632: Renamed the Régiment de Sainte-Offange
  • July 19, 1635: Renamed the Régiment de La Frézelière
  • May 1636: Renamed the Régiment de Touraine (after the Province of Touraine )
  • December 1650: Renamed the Régiment d'Amboise
  • 1653: Renamed the Régiment de Kercado
  • July 1, 1654: Renamed the Régiment de Chambellay
  • 1667: Renamed the Régiment de Montaigu
  • 1673: Renamed the Régiment de Touraine
  • November 14, 1691: Three companies had to be surrendered to form the Régiment de Chartres .
  • 1762: incorporation of the Régiment de Flandre
  • 1776: Division, the 2nd and 4th battalions were handed over to the formation of the Régiment de Savoie-Carignan .
  • 1791: renamed 33 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne
  • 1793: First army reform . The regiment was than 1 he bataillon "ex Touraine 'to 65 e demi-brigade de Bataille and 2 e bataillon" ex Touraine' to 66 e demi-brigade de Bataille off. This ended the regimental association and the line of tradition.
  • 1803: Renaming of the "33 e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne" to 33 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne (de facto continuation of the regiment tradition)

Compositions

  • May 1636: increased to 20 companies
  • February 10, 1638: increased to 30 companies
  • May 1, 1681: increased by one battalion to 15 companies
  • September 15, 1684: reduced to a battalion with 15 companies of infantry and one company (or two?) Grenadiers
  • November 14, 1691: Three companies from "Touraine" were given to the establishment of the Régiment de Chartres .
  • January 26, 1701: one militia battalion was added

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”.

  • April 29, 1625: Timoléon de Congressans, baron du Plessis-Joigny (died near Haguenau in 1632 )
  • October 1632: Philippe de La Poeze, baron de Sainte-Offange (died in Valtellina in June 1635 )
  • July 19, 1635: Isaac Frezeau, marquis de La Frezelière ( fallen before Hesdin in 1639 )
  • July 1639: Antoine de Neuilly d'Amboise
  • December 1650: Charles-Jules de Neuilly d'Amboise
  • 1653: N. Le Sénéchal, comte de Kercado
  • July 1, 1654: François Sidrac de Chambellay
  • May 1667: Marquis de Montaigut
  • 1673: François Frézeau, marquis de La Frézelière
  • August 1675:? Frézeau, chevalier de La Frézelière
  • 23 September 1680: Jean de Bonnac, marquis d'Usson
  • January 30, 1691: de Courchamp, comte d'Igny
  • February 18, 1703: Jean-Baptiste Desmarets , comte de Maillebois
  • March 15, 1717: Charles-François de Montmorency , duc de Luxembourg
  • April 16, 1738: Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, prince de Tingry
  • June 8, 1744: Charles-Anne-Sigismond de Montmorency-Luxembourg, duc d'Olonne
  • February 1, 1749: Anne-François, duc de Montmorency
  • June 20, 1761: Louis-François-Joseph, comte de Montmorency-Logny
  • January 3, 1770: Anne-Alexandre-Marie-Sulpice-Joseph de Montmorency, marquis Laval
  • April 26, 1775:?
  • June 29, 1775: Claude-Anne, marquis de Saint-Simon-Maubleru
  • April 13, 1780: Henri-François Liamart, vicomte de Poudenx
  • March 10, 1788: André Boniface Louis Riquetti de Mirabeau
  • July 25, 1791: Jean-Louis Rambaud de Maillou
  • March 23, 1792: Louis-François-Hector d'Haudoire d'Aigreville
  • August 17, 1792: Guillaume Charlot

(...)

  • 1807: Colonel Étienne François Raymond Pouchelon
  • ?
  • 1849: Colonel Bouat
  • ?
  • 1863 to 1870: Colonel Bounetou
  • 1871 to 1877: Colonel Strolz
  • 1877 to 1887: Colonel Adeler
  • 1887 to 1889: Colonel Wasmer
  • 1889 to 1892: Colonel Courbassier
  • 1892 to 1895: Colonel Belle
  • 1895 to 1900: Colonel de Billy
  • 1900 to 1905: Colonel d'Or
  • 1905 to 1907: Colonel Souchiez
  • 1907 to 1908: Colonel Collas
  • 1908 to 1911: Colonel Jacques Schwartz
  • 1911 to 1914: Colonel Philippe Pétain
  • 1914 bis?: Lieutenant-colonel forehead
  • ?

Equipment in the royal army

Flags

  • Régiment de Touraine and all its predecessors since 1625

Uniformity

  • Régiment de Touraine 1720-1734

  • Régiment de Touraine 1734–1757

  • Régiment de Touraine 1762–1776

  • Régiment de Touraine 1776–1779

  • Régiment de Touraine 1779–1791

  • Grenadier of the 33 e régiment d'infantry de ligne 1791-1793

Battle calendar

Huguenot Wars (1625 to 1630)

After the formation, the regiment remained inactive in Angers and was released on May 26, 1626. On July 28, 1627, the re-activation and the command to the siege troops in front of La Rochelle took place . After the capitulation of the city, the regiment was placed in garrison on the Île d'Oléron . From here, the army moved to Savoy in 1630. During the campaign it occupied Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne . On August 15, the march with the army of Maréchal Schomberg took place to conquer Veillane. “Plessy-Joigny” was able to occupy the suburbs of Chartreux and Capucins on August 19th. The castle surrendered eight days later.

Thirty Years War (1631 to 1635)

In 1631 the regiment followed the king to Lorraine , spent the winter in Alsace and in 1632 joined the army in Germany (Armée d'Allemagne) . During the raid on the Haguenau garrison, it lost its commander, who was replaced by the first captain, the Baron de Sainte-Offange. The now "Régiment de Sainte-Offange" stayed in Lorraine for the next two years, took part in the last operations there and in September 1634 joined the army of the Duc de Rohan in Ramberweiler . It then took part in the winter campaign in Upper Alsace and was sent through Switzerland to Valtellina in April 1635 .

Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659)

  • 1635: In June of that year the casualties increased, and the Baron de Sainte-Offange was also one of the fallen. The Marquis de La Frézelière succeeded him. On July 3, the regiment, only 700 men strong, was in action near Mazzo and on July 19 was involved in the attack on Bormio . The battle at Ferravalle followed on October 31. On November 10, the regiment carried out the third attack on Morbeigno.
  • 1636: In that year “La Frézelière” was involved in all actions around Lake Como . For its services, it received the white flag (drapeau blanc) as the body flag for the regimental owner in May . At the same time it was renamed "Régiment de Touraine", because the previous regiment owner, the Marquis de La Frézelière, was promoted to Maréchal de camp and recalled by the leadership of the unit. The command went to the Lieutenant-Colonel d'Amboise.
  • 1639: The regiment went to the Sieur d'Amboise.
  • 1640: After spending the winter in Piémont, the unit moved to Turin , where they helped defend the citadel .
  • 1641: Participates in the siege of Yvrée and the capture of Ceva, Pianezza, Mondovi and Coni
  • 1642: capture of Crescentino and Nice , siege of Tortone
  • 1643: Siege of Trino . On the night of August 23rd to 24th, “Touraine” rejected three casualties by the besieged. On August 27, the besiegers entered the city, the regiment remained stationed here until January 1650. During this time it was reduced from 30 to 20 companies, the Mestre de camp d'Amboise was promoted to Maréchal de camp and appointed governor by Prince Thomas of Savoy . The regiment was in constant combat with the Spanish garrisons of the neighboring towns and undertook a violent reconnaissance against Verceil.
  • 1650: After the death of the Mestre de camp d'Amboise, the unit returned to France and was billeted in the Paris area. The position of ownership went to the son of the fallen, Charles-Jules de Neuilly d'Amboise.
During the troubled times of the Fronde conflict , some of the regimental commanders took advantage of the crown's dwindling authority to endow the regiments they command with their own names, even if they did not pay the costs. So did the M. d'Amboise, who gave the “de Touraine” regiment its own name in 1650.
  • 1652: It stood in the Piémont until it was taken over by the Comte de Kercado in 1653. The following year he fell during the siege of Stenay .
  • 1654: Delivered to François Sidrac de Chambellay on July 1, 1654 (and also named that way), the unit was deployed in Catalonia in the same year.
  • 1655: Return to Italy and take part in the siege of Pavia . The following year in the siege and capture of Valenza and the capture of the castles of Varas and Novi. The last campaign of this long war was the regiment in Catalonia, where it remained until the Peace of the Pyrenees .

In France

Returned to France after the peace treaty, it was stationed in Blaye and reduced to four companies. These were used in September 1661 to suppress the unrest in Montauban .

Since 1667 it was called Régiment de Montaigu . Under this it was embarked together with 14 other regiments in 1669 in Toulon and relocated to the relief of the Venetians besieged by the Turks in Heraklion . In the same year it returned to France and was distributed to Picardy and Flanders, where it remained until 1673.

In the same year the command passed to the Marquis de La Frézelière, grandson of the former Mestre de Camp. At the same time it was given the name "de Touraine" back, which it should keep until 1791.

Dutch War (1674 to 1677)

Under the command of the Maréchal Prince de Condé , the regiment was involved in the campaign in Flanders in 1674 and transferred to the army of Maréchal de Créquy in the camp near Charleville in May 1675 . Then it joined the troops under Turenne , who used the unit to guard the Rhine bridges.

Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé
  • 1676: On January 11, 1676, a battalion was deployed in a successful attack on Zweibrücken and then used there as a garrison. The other battalion served on the Rhine under the Maréchal de Luxembourg .
  • 1677: Assigned to the army in Flanders, “Touraine” took part in the siege of Valenciennes . It was so distinctive that the king gave the regiment permission to carry the musketeers' ammunition pouch as a special honor.
It was then used under the Duc d'Orléans in the siege of Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) . Together with the Régiment de Navarre , it opened the trenches. It remained to supervise the siege work, while the rest of the troops in the Battle of Cassel the Dutch under Wilhelm III. (Orange) defeated.
On April 18, the regimental commander, the Chevalier de La Frézelière, was killed by a musket ball while attacking the covered path at the head of the column. His father then took over the leadership of the regiment again. After the capture of Saint-Omer, “Touraine” was assigned to the army in Germany, where it was available to artillery until the peace agreement.
  • November 1677: Siege of Freiburg im Breisgau. From June 1678 involved in the fighting in Swabia together with the Régiment de Rouergue . In August of the same year the participation in the capture of Kehl followed. On October 15, it was one of the troops that captured the Lichtenberg Castle, which had been considered impregnable up until then .
Lichtenberg Castle after Merian in 1663

Reunion War (1683 to 1684)

  • 1683: The regiment was in the field camp on the Saar.
  • 1684 : The unit was used in the siege of Luxembourg .

War of the Palatinate Succession (1688 to 1697)

  • 1688 : "Touraine" was under the command of the Dauphin with the capture of Philippsburg , Mannheim and Frankenthal and spent the following winter in Mézières and Charleville.
  • 1689 : Participation in the conquest of the Electoral Palatinate under Maréchal Boufflers , then march to the Moselle . Participation in the Battle of Walcourt . Then return to the Rhine, siege of Mainz and attack on Bruchsal , which surrendered after a few cannon shots had been fired.
  • 1690 : Deployment on the Moselle, then seconded to the army of the Maréchal de Luxembourg and fighting in the brigade formation with the Régiment de Champagne in the battle of Fleurus , in which it was able to capture six cannons. Winter quarters were taken in Furnes .
  • 1691 : Used to cover the siege artillery in front of Mons , the Capitaine La Vergne was killed by a cannonball. After taking the city, it returned to the army on the Rhine.
  • 1692 : Assignment to Normandy and deployment to protect the coastal batteries
  • 1693: Assignment to the army of Maréchal Nicolas de Catinat in Piedmont . A short time after the regiment arrived there, Prince Eugene threatened the fortified city of Pinerolo . The regiment was deployed with three battalions to guard the road to Perugia , where it was soon attacked by superior forces. After stubborn resistance, however, the bulk of the army had to withdraw and a few days later took part in the fighting in the front line near the village of Marsaglia.
  • 1694: "Touraine" was assigned to the army in Catalonia and took part in the battle near Ter and in the capture of Girone, Palamós, Hostalrich and Castelfollit. The following year it defended Palamós and Hostalrich and distinguished itself in the relief of Castelfollit, where it attacked the Spanish trenches together with the Régiment de Sault . After the end of the siege, the regiment was stationed in Castelfollit until 1696. It then moved back to Italy, where it was used in the siege of Valenza. After the peace agreement with the Duke of Savoy, it returned to Catalonia, where it was involved in the siege of Barcelona in 1697 .

War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

  • 1701: The regiment, consisting of two battalions, was assigned to the occupation army in Spanish Flanders. Here it took part in the battle near Nijmegen the following year.
  • 1703: Transfer to the army in Germany. From February 25th, deployed at the siege of Trarbach, then in the defense of Bonn and the siege of Breisach. It was followed by the siege of Landau, where on October 21st it was able to reject an attempted breakout by the besieged. On November 3, the unit, together with the Régiment de Royal-Italy , was able to penetrate to the inner trenches in an attack on the left Contregarde . On November 15, the Battle of the Speyerbach took place, in which the regiment was involved. Since the fortress of Landau surrendered immediately afterwards, the troops had become free and “Touraine” was immediately marched for Italy.
  • 1704 to 1706: Immediately after their arrival, the unit took part in the siege of Susa , where the grenadiers were able to take the heights away from Brunette. This was followed by the conquest of the Val de San Martin and the attack on the Rochetaille base in the Aosta Valley. Winter quarters were moved into Pinorolo.
The following year it took the fortified Castello castle and participated in the siege of Villefranche and the occupation of Nice . The siege of Chivasso and the use in the battle of Cassano followed .
On April 19, 1706 it was in action at Calcinato and then marched on Turin. On September 7th, the regiment defended its part of the ramparts with great losses. On the evening of the day only 447 men were still operational. During the withdrawal, “Touraine” brought up the rear. It worked to make the retreat route passable, thus saving the artillery that was no longer able to do so.
  • 1707: Assignment to the army in the Dauphiné. It was used to secure Toulon , which was threatened by Austro-Sardinian troops.
  • 1708: Relocation to the Rhine. As early as July it marched to Flanders to strengthen its armed forces there and was used in the battle of Oudenaarde . Then it came to the garrison in Lille and there immediately fell into the siege of the city. In this long-running affair, "Touraine" was able to distinguish itself through bravery and disciplined behavior, especially during the September 11 failure in which Lieutenant-Colonel La Cassagne-Maurin was so badly wounded that he did not recover and the following year passed away. The Capitaine du Daugnon and his company defended his trench section for 37 days, during which he was able to repel four attacks.
  • 1709 to 1712: Battle of Malplaquet . In the following year it was part of the Brigade Association with the Régiment de Piémont in the defense of Douai, and in 1712 it formed the garrison of Maubeuge. After the Battle of Denain , the regiment left the city and joined the army with which it took part in the reconquest of Douai, du Quesnoy and Bouchain.
  • 1713 to 1714: Transferred to the army in Germany, the regiment took part in the battle near Speyer and in the capture of the city as well as that of Kaiserslautern and Landau. It was also involved in the victory over the troops of the Austrian general Vaubonne in the Black Forest and in the siege of Freiburg im Breisgau. After the Peace of Rastatt it returned to France and was replenished in January 1714 by the personnel of the disbanded regiments "de Montsorreau" and "de Sébeville". On November 19 of the same year, the disbanded regiment "de Bellisle" was incorporated.

Quadruple Alliance War

"Touraine" was used in the Pyrenees campaign in 1719 and took part in the sieges of Fontarabie , Saint-Sébastien and La Seu d'Urgell . The blockade troops also had it in front of Roses .

Siege of Philippsburg 1734

War of the Spanish Succession

It was here that the siege of Kehl Fortress took place in 1733 . In the following year the regiment, meanwhile reinforced to three battalions, was deployed in the capture of Trarbach , in the battle near Ettlingen and in the siege of Philippsburg and Worms. In 1735 he took part in the battle near Klausen . After the peace agreement, the Saarlouis unit was assigned as a garrison.

War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1741: In July the regiment marched via Fort-Louis to Austria. On October 25th it crossed the Danube near Krems . In the meantime, however, the French ally, the Elector of Bavaria , had withdrawn and the brigade was directed to Sierning on October 28th . While the army was marching towards Prague, the regiment secured the Enns. The three battalions of the unit then moved to Steyr, where they were threatened in December by a corps of Field Marshal Khevenhüller . This was followed by an orderly retreat to Linz , where it took part in the defense of the city. The Capitaines Comminges, Bermont and Lassayette fell during the fighting, the Lieutenant-colonel de Vigneux was badly wounded.
  • 1742: Returning to France, the unit was assigned to the army of Maréchal de Noailles the following year . This was followed by the march on the Rhine to Speyer, on August 27 and 28 it was in the vicinity of Heidelberg . Then, in a brigade formation with the Regiment d'Auvergne , participation in the battle of Dettingen . Three captains, a lieutenant and 50 soldiers of the regiment died. 53 men were wounded, including Lieutenant-Colonel de Vigneux, who was shot in the shoulder.
“Touraine” ended the campaign in Alsace, where it was used to repair the defensive positions of the “Lignes de la Lauter” between Scheibenhard and the Salmbach bridge .
  • 1744 to 1746: Relocation to Flanders, where the regiment was deployed to cover the siege troops of Menen . This was followed by missions in the capture of Ypres and Furnes. It spent the rest of the campaign in the Kortrijk camp .
Battle of Fontenoy
In 1745 "Touraine" was involved in the siege of Tournai and fought in association with the "Régiment d'Auvergne" in the battle of Fontenoy . After the capture of Tournai it fought in the siege of Oudenaarde , Termont and Ath . The campaign was continued with the siege of Namur in 1746, and after a few months in the field camp of Wespelaëre, the regiment was involved in the battle near Roucoux together with the Régiment de Champagne . Reinforced to four battalions for the campaign of 1747, it was initially in the Mechelen camp .
  • 1747 to 1749: Participation in the battle of Lauffeldt with subsequent return to Mechelen. Then “Touraine” was sent to Comte Ulrich von Löwendal for the siege of Bergen op Zoom and arrived in front of the fortress on August 10th. On August 24th, it moved into its siege section in front of Fort de Roowers, on August 30th prevented a failure of the fortress garrison and took part in the general attack on September 16th, which led to the surrender of Bergen op Zoom. It withdrew on September 25 and ended the campaign in the Kapellen camp . 1748 still took part in the siege of Maastricht . The following year the unit was reduced to two battalions and garrisoned at Metz.

Seven Years War

Battle of Minden
  • 1759: On August 1st, the regiment was able to save the disordered cavalry in the battle of Minden by sacrificing itself to protect them. The efforts "Touraine" made in this action are evidenced by the losses. The Capitaines Gimel, Delmas, Prisy, Moyencourt, Pithieuville and Carlot as well as the Lieutenants Sailly, Bressoles, Charlot, Langlois, Saint-Hilaire and Tourtiel fell, and another 35 officers were wounded. While the enemy was besieging Münster, the regiment succeeded on November 19 in attacking and devastating the camp at Albachten .
  • 1760: In the Battle of Warburg the regiment suffered similar losses as in the previous year at Minden.
  • 1761: On July 3, the unit was able to distinguish itself again when it was in action near Schaafhausen . On July 15, a victory was achieved together with the "Régiment de Piémont" in the battle near Scheidingen , the result of which, however, was nullified by the defeat in the battle of Vellinghausen .
  • 1762: The regiment returned to France and was stationed in Maubeuge. On December 10th the incorporation of the dissolved "Régiment de Flandre" took place.

Peace time and change of garrison

Relocation to Valenciennes in May 1763, to Givet in May 1764, to Calais in November 1784, to Strasbourg in October 1766, to Camp Verberie in July 1769 and then to Lille and Verdun in September 1770, to Nancy in December 1770 Metz in September 1772 and to Montpellier in October 1774.

Here the unit was divided, the 2nd and 4th battalions were handed over to the formation of the Régiment de Savoie-Carignan .

"Touraine" now took over number 23 in the ranking, which was changed to 34 after the doubling of the old regiments (les vieux corps) .

In January 1776 he was transferred to Alès , in November of the same year to Verdun and in October 1777 to Metz. The following year it was in Camp de Vaussieux in the Pays de Caux and came to Arras in October. In 1779 the unit was relocated to Brittany , where Hennebont served as a garrison from May to November. Then she was embarked for America.

American War of Independence

  • 1780: On April 12, 1780, a detachement was embarked on the Comte de Guichen's fleet and took part in three battles against the ships of Admiral Rodney .
  • 1781 to 1782: The regiment then stayed in Santo Domingo until the former colonel of the regiment, the Marquis de Saint-Simon, was ordered to strengthen the small French army of Rochambeau on the continent as troop commander . The regiments of Agénois , Gâtinais and Touraine were loaded onto the ships of de Grasse and put ashore on August 15, 1781 in the Chesapeake Bay . Here the regiment took part in the capture of Yorktown (Virginia) and returned to the Antilles after the surrender of General Cornwallis . After a short rest in Martinique, it embarked on the ships of de Grasse in the last days of the year and reached the island of Saint-Christophe on January 11, 1782 . After the landing, the grenadiers and hunters, along with those of the Régiment d'Agenois, were left to guard the port of Basseterre . The fusiliers and the other troops advanced on Brimstone Hill Fortress .
Siege of Brimstone Hill
On January 28, the grenadiers and hunters who remained at the port were attacked by around 1,300 Englishmen who had remained on the island. After an hour and a half fierce battle, the English were ready to give up if they were allowed to leave.
Brimstone Hill Fortress surrendered on February 12th.
  • 1782: That year, on April 9th ​​and 12th, the regiment was still involved in fighting between the Comte de Frasse and Admiral Rodney.

Back in France

  • 1783: Return to France with garrison at Avesnes
  • 1787 to 1788: Relocation first to Normandy and then to Brittany. The garrisons were Bayeux, Saint-Servan and Rennes. Relocation to Perpignan in 1788.
  • 1791: Relocation to Bayeux, then to Cherbourg and in November to Mézières

Wars of the Revolution and the First Empire

July Monarchy

  • 1830: By order of September 18, a fourth battalion was set up. The workforce was accordingly 3,000 men.
Emblem on the officer's chako after 1815

Second empire

Battle of Solferino

Franco-German War

  • 1870: Together with the 15 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne and the "2 e bataillon de chasseurs à pied" (2nd battalion of hunters on foot), the 33 e RI formed the 1st brigade under the command of Général Comte Pajol. Together with the 2nd Brigade (Général Berger), four batteries of field guns and a battery of mitrailleuses , it belonged to the "3 e division d'infanterie" of the Général de division Latrille comte de Lorencez. This in turn was subordinate to the 4th Army Corps of Général de division de Ladmirault in the Armée du Rhin .
July 25, 1870: Battle at the outpost of Bouzonville
August 14, 1870: Battle of Colombey
August 18, 1870: Battle of Gravelotte

First World War

When the war broke out in 1914, the regiment was stationed in Arras.

  • 1914:
August 15th: Battle of Dinant
August 24th: Battle of the Sambre
August 29th: Battle of St. Quentin
5th to 12th September: First Battle of the Marne
  • 1915:
Autumn battle in Champagne
Trench warfare on the Aisne
  • 1916:
Battle for Verdun
Battle of the Somme
  • 1917:
Battle of the Aisne (1917)
Third Battle of Flanders - used at Passchendaele
  • 1918:
Battle of the Aisne (1918)
Battle of the Marne (1918)
Persecution battles in Alsace and on the Oise

Second World War

The regiment fought as much as possible and disbanded after the French defeat.

post war period

In the 1980s the unit was renamed 33 e RID (Régiment d'infanterie divisionnaire) . It was part of the tactical reserve.

In the 1990s it became an inactive support regiment and, as a foster association, was subordinated to the 43 e régiment d'infanterie . The (active) commander of the unit was also deputy regimental commander of 43 e RI.

In 1995 the "33 e RI" was finally dissolved, the remaining personnel were integrated into the 5th company of the "43 e RI".

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.

  • 1804 to 1812

  • 1812 to 1814

  • Front since 1880

  • Back since 1880

Awards

The flag ribbon is awarded the Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with two palm branches for two honorable mention in the army report. Since September 3, 1918, members of the regiment have had the right to wear the Fourragère in the colors of the Croix de guerre 1914–1918.

Croix de guerre with two palm branches

Known members of the regiment

literature

  • Charles de Gaulle : Lettres, Notes et Carnets 1905–1918. Plon, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-259-00647-7 .
  • Matthieu Schmidt-Ligniez: Le 33e regiment d'infanterie dans la Première Guerre mondiale. Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale , Faculty of History, Boulogne-sur-Mer (July 5, 2013 record of the research, collection of postcards ).
  • Lieutenant general François-Eugène de Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la guerre d'Espagne sous Louis XIV. Volume 1. Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1835 ( full text in the Google book search).
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Footnotes

  1. ↑ German: 33rd Infantry Regiment
  2. ↑ The ownership and also the costs of maintaining the regiment thus passed to the crown.
  3. ↑ with the former 33 e régiment d'infantry had nothing to do more
  4. ↑ d. H. Beginning of the fortification work and the laying of the siege trenches
  5. ↑ Number 33 was given in 1790 when the Régiment du Roi was cashed for mutiny.
  6. ↑ Victor Louis Jean François Belhomme: Histoire de l'infantry en France. Volume 5. Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris / Limoges 1902, p. 151 ( digitized on Gallica ).
  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

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