6 e régiment d'infantry

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Regiment d'Armagnac
6 e Regiment d'Infanterie

Insigne régimentaire du 6e Régiment d'Infanterie.jpg

Association badge of the 6 e régiment d'Infanterie
active 1776 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
Patron saint Saint-Maurice d'Agaune
motto " Toujours là ... "
(Always there)

The 6 e régiment d'infanterie - 6 e RI was an association of French infantry. The regiment distinguished itself in the Revolutionary Wars , in the battles of the First German Empire and in the First World War . It no longer exists today.

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

Lineup and significant changes

  • 1776: Formation of two battalions of the Régiment de Navarre with the name Régiment d'Armagnac .
  • 1791: Renamed to: 6 e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1793 First army reform The regiment was than 1 he bataillon (ci-devant Armagnac) for 11 e demi-brigade de Bataille and 2 e bataillon (ci-devant Armagnac) for 12 e demi-brigade de Bataille off. This ends the regimental association and the line of tradition
  • 1803: Renaming of the "6 e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne" to 6 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne (de facto continuation of the regiment tradition)
  • 1814: During the restoration, it was in Régiment de Berri renamed
  • 1815: During the reign of the Hundred Days it was given the name 6 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne .
  • July 16, 1815: Like the entire Napoleonic Army, it was disbanded as part of the Second Restoration
  • August 11, 1815: re-established as 12 e légion des Bouches-du-Rhône .
  • 23 October 1820: Renamed: 4 e légion des Bouches-du-Rhône, then renamed Schlestadt to 6 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne .
  • 1830: By order of September 18, a fourth battalion was set up. The regiment was now 3,000 men strong.
  • 1854: Renamed to: 6 e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1914: during the mobilization it created its reserve regiment , the 206 e régiment d'infanterie .
  • Disbanded at an unknown time after the end of the First World War
  • October 1939: re-erection
  • June 1940: disbanded
  • Spring 1945: reorganized and dissolved again after the end of the war
  • Raised at the beginning of the Algerian conflict, it was finally dissolved after the end of the war in 1962.

Uniform until 1795

  • Fusilier 1776 to 1779

  • Fusilier 1779 to 1791

  • Sergent of the Grenadiers 1791 to 1795

Mestres de camp and Colonels

Mestre de camp was from 1569 to 1661 and from 1730 to 1780 the designation of rank for the regiment holder and / or the actual commander of an infantry regiment. The name Colonel was used from 1721 to 1730, from 1791 to 1793 and from 1803. 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 left to the colonel lieutenant or colonel en second. From 1793 to 1803, the French army used the term Chef de brigade . From 1791 there were no more regimental owners.

  • 1791: Colonel Jean-Baptiste Marie Joseph Florimond de Cappy
  • 1791: Colonel Jacques Thomas L'Huillier de Rouvenac
  • 1792: Colonel Pierre Cleday
  • 1803: Colonel François Marie Dufour
  • 1807: Colonel Claude Germain Louis Devilliers
  • 1811: Colonel Jean Étienne Barre
  • 1813: Colonel François Louis Julien Buchet
  • 1815: Colonel Jean Étienne Barre
  • 1822: Colonel Emmanuel Colomb d'Arcine
  • 1830: Colonel Jean Marie Nouail de la Villegille
  • 1854: Edmond Jean Filhol de Camas
  • 1870: Colonel Labarthe
  • 1897: Colonel Louis Pierre Marie Mercier
  • 1914: Colonel Doé de Maindreville.

Mission history

Wars of the Revolution and the First Empire

  • 1792: in Mairieux,
September 20th: cannonade at Valmy
in Clermont, Namur, Hamptinnes and Trier

Vendée uprising

in the Condé, Doué,
Battle of Chantonnay
Battle of Nantes
Battle of Mons
Battle of Savenay

Spanish War of Independence

August 27, 1811: In a battle of retreat in the kingdom of Leon, the regiment lost its eagle
  • 1813 : Campaign in Germany
Battle at Mockern ,
Battle near Merseburg ,
Battle at Wurschen ,
Battle of Bautzen ,
Battle of the Nations near Leipzig
Battle of Hanau

23 officers died in the wars of the First Empire or died of their wounds. 96 officers were wounded.

1815 to 1851

  • 1830: conquest of Algeria
June 14th: Disembarkation in Sidi Ferruch.
June 19: Battle of Staoueli.
June 24-29: Battles at the Dely Ibrahim camp and at Sidi Kalef.
June 30th to July 5th: Siege and capture of Algiers .
July 25, 1830: Transport to Bône
August 2nd: Arrival at Bône and capture of the city
August 20th: transport back to Algiers.
November 17th to 29th: Assistance with taking Blida and Medeha .
End of December 1830: return to France
June 5 to 6, 1832: Suppression of the June uprising in Paris
December 2, 1851: Suppression of the republican uprising in the Var department against the coup d'état of President Louis Napoleon.

Crimean War

In June 1854 the regiment arrived in the Crimea . It fought in the Battle of the Alma and the Battle of Inkerman . In the rescue of the flag, the regiment's commander, Baron Edmond Jean Filhol de Camas, was killed in the ranks of the enemy. In his report, the General Bosquet attested that the regiment had carried out an excellent attack and that it had avenged the death of its colonel.

Franco-German War

On August 1, 1870, the "6 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne" belonged to the Armée du Rhin .

Together with the 20 e bataillon de chasseurs and the 1 er régiment d'infanterie, the 6th regiment formed the “1 er brigade” of Général Comte Brayer. This 1st Brigade formed in conjunction with the 2nd Brigade, two field artillery batteries of four guns Canon de modèle 4 1858 , a battery Mitrailleuses and an engineer company, the "1 he division d'infantry" commanded by General de division Courtot de Cissey.

The 1st Infantry Division belonged to the IV Corps of Général de division Paul de Ladmirault

The "4 e corps d'armée" was involved as follows:

Battle of Colombey
Battle of Vionville
Battle of Gravelotte

On August 3rd the regiment was at Longeville and Plappeville .

Battle of Noisseville - Conquest of Servigny

surrender

  • Saturday, October 29th: IV Corps stood between the forts Saint-Quentin and Plappeville on the road to Amanvillers.
  • November 1870: The 2nd battalion was stationed in Mézières (Ardennes).

First World War

When the First World War broke out , the regiment was stationed in Saintes . It belonged to the 69th Infantry Brigade of the 35th Infantry Division.

  • 1914 :
August 21-23: Battle of Charleroi, battles at Somzée (August 23) and Walcourt (August 24).
  • 1916 :

Battle of Verdun : Trench warfare at height 304.

  • 1917 :

Assault fighting in the Verdun section : Height 326, Height 344, northeast of Beaumont-en-Verdunois .

  • 1918 :
From the beginning of August pursuit battles in Picardy
Chase battles from Essigny-le-Petit to the Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise

Second World War

On October 16, 1939 from the 2nd battalion of the 151st, 94th , 26th and 170th . Re-established infantry regiment, it was reassigned to the 44th Infantry Division. The “Région militaire, Center mobilisateur d'infanterie 211” was responsible for the installation; reserve A type NE ”in Sissonne . It was initially commanded by Colonel Tassin, then from May 13, 1940 by Colonel Loup and from June 5, 1940 by Chef de bataillon Cuny.

The regiment fought as much as possible and was disbanded after the Compiègne armistice (1940) .

Set up again in the spring of 1945, it was used under the command of Général Larminat in the fight against the German resistance nests on the Atlantic coast.

post war period

Use in the Western Sahara

In Algeria the war 6 formed e régiment d'infantry 1959-1962 called Jagdkommandos

After the fire ceased on March 19, 1962, the "6 e RI" began to set up a total of 114 units of the new Algerian armed forces like the other 91 regiments. The "6 e RI" set up three units: the 468 ° UFL-UFO, the 469 ° UFO and the 470 ° UFO, consisting of 10% urban and 90% rural population (called "Militaires Musulmans")

Regimental flags of the 6 e RI

  • Flags of the Régiment d'Armagnac

  • Body flag

  • Ordinance flag 1776 to 1791

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.

Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with two palm branches, one gold-plated and one silver star

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Awards

Two palm branches for two honorable mentions in Army Command
a gold-plated star for an Honorable Mention in Army Corps Command
a silver star for an honorable mention on divisional command
  • In the event of a possible reorganization, the members of the regiment have the right to wear the Fourragère in the colors of the Croix de guerre 1914-1918.

Motto

Toujours là
(Always there)

literature

  • Archives militaires du Château de Vincennes.
  • À partir du Recueil d'Historiques de l'Infanterie Française (Général Andolenko - Eurimprim 1969).
  • Historique du 6e Regiment d'Infanterie , Imprimerie J. Thaumiaux, Saintes, 1920.
  • Histoire générale de la guerre franco-allemande (1870–1871) par le Commandant ROUSSET - Tome 1 et 2 - L'Armée Impériale.

Web links

Commons : Drapeaux du 6e régiment d'infanterie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German: 6th Infantry Regiment
  2. ↑ which had nothing to do with the former 6 e regiment d'infanterie
  3. ↑ Histoire de l'infanterie en France de Victor Louis Jean François Belhomme Vol 5 page 151
  4. ↑ The 200 for the first mobilization regiment, the 6 for the number of the active regiment - another would have the number 306.
  5. ↑ Historique du 6e Régiment d'Infanterie , Imprimerie J. Thaumiaux, Saintes, 1920
  6. ↑ Georges Cayol, "Vidauban et le coup d'État", p 164-195 de Provence 1851: une insurrection pour la République , Actes des journées de 1997 à Château-Arnoux et de 1998 à Toulon, Association pour le 150e anniversaire de la résistance au coup d'État du 2 December 1851, Les Mées, 2000, p 174
  7. ^ Treaty of Evian of March 18, 1962
  8. ↑ UFL = Union des forces locales - UFO = Unions des forces de l'Ordre
  9. ↑ «  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 ")
  10. ↑ "  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 ")
  11. ↑ This also applies to units that have already been disbanded, as they can (theoretically) be put back into active service at any time