Regiment d'Espinchal Cavalerie

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Regiment d'Espinchal Cavalerie

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Standard of the Regiment d'Espinchal Cavalerie
active 1673 to 1761
Country Blason France modern.svg Flag of France.svg France
Armed forces Blason France modern.svg Flag of France.svg french army
Armed forces cavalry
Type regiment
Location last garrison: Saint Maixent
Patron saint St. George
commander
Important
commanders

Mestre de camp Chevalier de Lançon

The Régiment d'Espinchal cavalerie was a regiment of heavy cavalry , formed in the Kingdom of France , in service during the Ancien Régime until the end of the Seven Years War .

Lineup and significant changes

  • December 10, 1673: Formation as Régiment de Lançon cavalerie
  • 1676: Renamed to: Régiment de Saint-Simon cavalerie
  • August 8, 1679: Dissolution, the unaffected body company was incorporated into the Régiment d'Arnolphiny cavalerie by order of August 24
  • ?: Reinstatement as Régiment de Saint-Simon cavalerie
  • 1693: Renamed to: Régiment du Bordage cavalerie
  • 1704: Renamed to: Régiment de Bouzols cavalerie
  • 1719: Renamed to: Régiment de Brissac cavalerie
  • 1727: Renamed to: Régiment de Cossé cavalerie
  • June 20, 1735: Renamed: Régiment de Fiennes cavalerie
  • 1747: Renamed to: Régiment de Dampierre cavalerie
  • 1759: Renamed to: Régiment d'Espinchal cavalerie
  • December 1, 1761: Dissolution and incorporation into the Régiment de Bourgogne cavalerie

Mestres de camp

Mestre de camp was the rank designation for the regimental owner and / or the actual commander. Should the Mestre de camp be a person of the high nobility who had no interest in leading the regiment (e.g. the king or queen), the command was given to the Mestre de camp lieutenant (or Mestre de camp en second).

  • December 10, 1673: Jean de Pouilly de Lançon
  • March 1676: the Comte de Saint-Simon
  • 1693: the Comte du Bordage
  • 1704: the Marquis de Bouzols
  • 1719: the duc de Brissac
  • September 6, 1727: Hugues René Thimoléon de Cossé de Brissac, comte de Cossé, brother of the previous one
  • 20 juin 1735: Charles Maximilien de Fiennes des Vicomtes de Fruges, marquis de Fiennes
  • 1744: the Comte de Fiennes
  • 1747: the Comte de Dampierre
  • 1759: the Marquis d'Espinchal

Furnishing

Standards

Until 1735 the regiment carried four standards made of yellow silk. The royal sun with the king's foreign exchange ribbon Nec pluribus impar was placed on it . There were embroidered fleurs de lys in the four corners . All decorative embroidery and the fringes were made in gold. Both sides were the same.

After that, the regiment led four ponceau-red standards with decorations as before, with the Régiment de Fiennes cavalerie having a black background.

  • Regiment de Cossé cavalerie

  • Regiment de Fiennes cavalerie

  • Regiment de Dampierre Cavalerie

Uniformity

  • 1740 to 1757

  • 1757 to 1761

history

The regiment was used in the following wars:

1679: Under the Maréchal François de Créquy, persecution of the Brandenburg troops to Westphalia. End of the war after the battle of Minden .
Battle of Fleurus
Battle of Neer winds
Battle of the Speyerbach . Here the Mestre de camp lieutnant François de Granges became
Battle of Höchstädt
1712: Battle of Denain .
Battle of Roucoux
Battle of Lauffeldt
Battle of Hastenbeck
Battle of Krefeld
Battle of Minden
1760 Battle of Korbach and Battle of Warburg . Then commanded to Flanders, the regiment was disbanded after the peace agreement, the remaining riders integrated into the "Régiment Bourgogne-cavalerie".

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

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Brigadier des armées du roi on February 13, 1674, Maréchal de camp on February 25, 1677, Lieutenant-général (France) on June 28, 1678, † February 1685
  2. ↑ Brigadier on January 1, 1740, promoted to the Maréchal de camp on August 1, 1744 (already with a certification on May 2) Lieutenant general on May 10, 1748, † August 21, 1754
  3. ↑ Brigadier on January 1, 1740, promoted to Maréchal de camp on June 7, 1744 (already with a certificate on May 2) † February 10, 1750
  4. ↑ Cinquième abrégé de la carte générale du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer. Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris, 1739.
  5. ^ Sixième abrégé de la carte générale du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer. Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris, 1740.