Regiment de Preissac Cavalerie

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Regiment de Preissac Cavalerie

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Regimental standard
active 1654 to 1761
Country Grand Royal Coat of Arms of France & Navarre.svg France
Armed forces Royal Standard of the King of France, svg French armed forces
Branch of service cavalry
Type Heavy cavalry regiment
Strength 4 escadrons
Location Toul
Patron saint Maurice d'Agaune
motto Nec terrent, nec morantur
commander
commander Last: Comte de Preissac de Cadillac

The Régiment de Preissac cavalerie was a regiment of heavy cavalry in the Kingdom of France . Erected in 1654 during the Franco-Spanish War , it was disbanded as the French participation in the Seven Years War gradually waned .

Lineup and name changes

  • January 1689: Formation as Régiment de Furstemberg cavalerie
  • 1704: Renamed the Régiment de Courcillon cavalerie
  • September 26, 1719: Renamed: Régiment de Béthune cavalerie
  • 1735: Renamed the Régiment de Pons cavalerie
  • 1745: Renamed the Régiment d'Harcourt cavalerie
  • 1759: Renamed the Régiment de Preissac cavalerie
  • December 1, 1761: The regiment was dismissed in the wake of the reduction in French participation in the Seven Years War, the remaining personnel were integrated into the Régiment Royal-Champagne cavalerie .

Furnishing

Standard

The regiment carried four standards of brown-yellow silk ("Soye isabelle"). The royal sun was depicted on the front, framed with ornaments, both in gold embroidery. Above it is the tape with King Louis XIV's motto : NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR.

The appearance of the back is unknown, but, as is common practice, it is likely to have been the same as the front.

Uniforms

  • from 1740 to 1757

  • from 1757 to 1761

Mestres de camp

Mestre de camp was from 1569 to 1790 the rank designation for the regiment holder and / or the actual commander of a cavalry regiment. Should the mestre de camp 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”).

  • 1689: Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
  • 1704: Philippe Egon de Courcillon, Brigadier des armées du roi
  • September 26, 1719: Louis Marie Victoire de Béthune-Selle, comte de Béthune
  • February 20, 1734: Comte, then marquis de Béthune-Chabris, son of the previous one
  • 1735: Viscount de Pons
  • March 23, 1742: Charles Philippe de Pons Saint-Maurice, marquis de Pons
  • 1745: Louis François, marquis d'Harcourt
  • March 19, 1748: Anne François d'Harcourt, chevalier d'Harcourt, then marquis de Beuvron
  • 1759: Comte de Preissac de Cadillac

Home Garrison

Wars in which the regiment participated

May 11, 1745: Battle of Fontenoy

literature

  • 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 .
  • M. Pinard: Chronologie historique-militaire. Volume 4 ( digitized on Gallica ), 5 ( digitized ) and 7 ( digitized ). Claude Hérissant, Paris 1761, 1762 and 1764.
  • François-Edme de Montandre-Longchamps, Chevalier de Montandre, Jacques de Roussel: État militaire de France pour l'année 1762. Volume 1. 3rd edition. Guillyn, Paris 1762, p. 352 ( full text in the Google book search, see Etats militaires de France in www.1789-1815.com ).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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 .

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