Régiment d'Auxerrois (1692)
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Régiment d'Auxerrois |
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 Orderly flag |
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| active | 1692 to 1749 |
| Country |
 France
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| Armed forces |
French army
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| Branch of service | Line infantry |
| Location | Neuf-Brisach |
| Patron saint | Saint-Maurice |
The Régiment d'Auxerrois was an infantry regiment of the French army in the Kingdom of France . It was the first regiment of that name. A successor unit was set up in 1776 and existed as the 12 e régiment d'infanterie until the 1960s.
Lineup and significant changes
- October 4 or November 12, 1692: Establishment of the Régiment d'Auxerrois , named after the then province of Auxerrois ( Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ). 13 companies from former garrison battalions were used. One was converted into a grenadier company.
- February 10th, 1749: Dissolution and incorporation of the grenadiers into the Régiment des Grenadiers de France . The rest came to the Regiment de Flandre .
Flags
The regiment carried three flags, a white body flag (drapeau colonel) and two orderly flags.
Uniformity
Red lapels, buttons and borders in silver.
Régiment d'Auxerrois 1720 to 1734 
Régiment d'Auxerrois 1734 to 1749
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 onwards. Should the Mestre de camp / Colonel be a person of the high nobility who had no interest in leading the regiment, the command was given to the “Mestre de camp lieutenant” (or “Mestre de camp en second”) or the Leave a colonel lieutenant or colonel en second.
- 4th October 1692: the Comte de Vaussieux
- 1702: d'Amfreville
- 1709: Louis Henri d'Harcourt, comte de Beuvron
- September 21, 1716: François Perron de Bellisle
- March 1718: the Comte d'Oisy
- August 1733: Eustache de Conflans, marquis de Saint-Rémy, called Marquis de Conflans
- February 9, 1742: Louis-Charles de Lorraine, comte de Brionne
- March 6, 1743: Louis Joseph de Saint-Véran , marquis de Montcalm
Mission history
War of the Palatinate Succession
- 1688 to 1697: Used in the Palatinate War of Succession. In 1698 the regiment was still in Germany.
War of the Spanish Succession
- 1702 to 1713: Used in the War of the Spanish Succession
- 1703: Garrison in Breisach , in front of Landau , Battle of the Speyerbach
- 1704: Fighting in Bavaria, first battle near Höchstädt
- 1705 to 1708: Combat activity on the Rhine
- 1708: Combat in Flanders
- 1709 to 1712: fighting on the Lauter
- 1713: at the siege of Landau, siege and conquest of Freiburg im Breisgau
War of the Austrian Succession
- Between 1744 and 1748 the regiment was deployed in Piedmont (in 1745 it was in Rivarone ). At the end of the war it was in Nice .
Footnotes
- ↑ Pierre Lemau de la Jaisse: Cinquième abrégé de la carte générale du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer. Depuis Novembre 1737 jusqu'en Décembre 1738. Gandouin et al., Paris 1739, OCLC 458013263 .
literature
- M. Pinard: Chronologie historique-militaire. Volume 5 and 8. Paris 1762 and 1778.
- Victor Louis Jean François Belhomme: Histoire de l'infanterie en France. Volume 2. Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris 1893.
Web links
- Général Susane: Chronologie historique des corps de troupes à pied ( Memento of September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Librairie militaire de J. Dumaine, Paris 1976 (see 1214. Auxerrois , p. 114; excerpt from Histoire de l'infanterie française ; PDF; 4 kB)
- Lucien Mouillard: Planche d'infanterie étrangère de Régiments sous Louis XV. Praetiriti Fides website , Exemplumque Futuri (PFEF; p. 111 Auxerrois ; Wikiwix )
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