29 e régiment d'infantry

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Régiment de La Rainville
Régiment du Dauphin
29 e régiment d'Infanterie

INFANTRY - 29e RIjpg

Badge of the 29 e régiment d'Infanterie
active 1617 to 1940
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
Strength 2000
Patron saint Saint-Maurice d'Agaune
motto Res praestant non verba fidem

The 29 e régiment d'infanterie ( 29 e RI ) was an association of French infantry. The regiment distinguished itself from its formation in all wars up to the Second World War . It no longer exists today.

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

The Régiment du Dauphin was a royal regiment and was equal to the Régiment du Roi . Erected by decree by King Louis XIV on June 15 from the previous regiment "de Lignère" for the heir to the throne , it was assigned the number 45 in the ranking of the regiments. It took over the tradition of the "Régiment de La Rainville" since it was set up in 1617.

Lineup and significant changes

  • 1617: Establishment of the "Régiment de La Rainville" as a predecessor unit
  • June 15, 1667: The "Régiment de Lignères" was drafted by the king and reorganized as the Régiment du Dauphin .
  • December 30, 1698: incorporation of the dissolved "Régiment de Bellisle"
  • December 10, 1762: incorporation of the Régiment de Guyenne (date of execution: February 15, 1763);
  • 1775: The Régiment du Dauphin was divided into Valenciennes .
    The 1st and 3rd battalions kept their names, flags and uniforms, while the 2nd and 4th battalions became the Régiment du Perche .
  • January 1, 1791: renamed 29 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne
  • 1794: Premier amalgams . The 1st Battalion was incorporated into the 57 e demi-brigade de bataille . The 2nd battalion alone formed the 58 e demi-brigade de bataille
  • November 21, 1796: Deuxieme amalgame - the "29 e demi-brigade de bataille" became the "29 e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne"
  • 24 September 1803: In the reorganization that was "29 e demi-brigade d'infantry de ligne" to "29 e régiment d'infantry de ligne" (Tradition line is practically interrupted here and the one from the 15 s transferred to the regiment d'infanterie "29 e demi-brigade d'infanterie")
  • 1814: there were no changes during the First Restoration and the Reign of the Hundred Days
  • July 16, 1815: like the entire Napoleonic army, the regiment was disbanded during the Second Restoration.
  • August 11, 1815: re-established as 2 e légion du Nord
  • 1820: the 2 e légion du Nord became the 29 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne .
  • 1870: Renaming to 29 e régiment de marche (29th marching regiment )
  • 1871: Renaming to 29 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne
  • 1882: Renamed to 29 e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1914: During the mobilization, the regular reserve regiment , the "229 e régiment d'infanterie", was set up
  • 1923: Dissolution (the tradition was continued by the 134 e RI ).
  • 1939: re-established as the 29th e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1940: dissolution.

Uniform in the royal army

  • Régiment du Dauphin 1734 to 1757.

  • Régiment du Dauphin 1762 to 1776.

  • Régiment du Dauphin 1776 to 1779.

  • Régiment du Dauphin 1779 to 1791.

  • 29 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne 1791 to 1793.

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, 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.

  • February 3, 1617: Monsieur de La Rainville
  • 1620: Monsieur de Menillet
  • August 7, 1635: Charles de Cocherel de Bourdonne
  • February 25, 1646: Chevalier de Barbezières de La Rochechèmerault
  • November 2, 1648: N. Langres de Rezmont
  • July 12, 1651: Godefroey, comte d'Estrades
  • 1661: René Lallier, comte de Saintlieu,
  • ?: François des Essarts, marquis de Lignéres
  • June 15, 1667: Michel de Fisicat (If the regiment, as in this case, could not be commanded by the owner himself (i.e. the Dauphin), it was commanded by a deputy, the lieutenant-colonel . King Louis XIV had, however, ordered that the de facto commander should have the rank of colonel and should bear the title of "Colonel-lieutenant". This post was given to Michel de Fisicat.)
  • August 24, 1671: Henri, Marquis de Beringhen; † May 18, 1674 during the siege of Besançon
  • June 2, 1674: Nicolas du Blé , marquis d'Huxelles,
  • February 21, 1694: Charles-François-Anne, marquis de Montberon
  • January 1704: Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart, comte de Maure.
  • April 15, 1710: Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre, marquis de Chaste
  • August 21, 1734: François-Ferdinand de Clermont-Tonnerre, comte de Chaste
  • November 25, 1734: Yves Marie Desmarets, comte de Maillebois
  • May 24, 1744: François-Honoré, marquis de Choiseul-Meuse
  • June 7, 1746: Joseph-Maurice-Annibal de Montmorency-Luxembourg, marquis de Breval.
  • January 1, 1748: Antoine-Adrien-Charles, comte de Gramont
  • September 11, 1755: Charles-Marc-Jean-François Régis, marquis de Boufflers
  • May 11, 1762: Denis-Auguste de Beauvoir de Grimoard, marquis du Roure.
  • January 3, 1770: Paul-François de Quelen de La Vauguyon, duc de Saint-Mégrin.
  • July 2, 1776: Antoine-Victor-Augustin Aubergeon, comte de Murinais.
  • April 13, 1780: Louis-François Chamillard, marquis de La Suze.
  • July 25, 1791: Philippe-Auguste-Jacques de La Cour, marquis de Balleroy.
  • October 21, 1791: Louis du Bouquet.
  • September 9, 1792: James O'Gormocan.
  • April 30, 1793: Jean Laroque de Cusson.
  • 1793: Colonel Denis Battin

(...)

  • 1843-1845: Colonel Joseph Dulac
  • 1914: Lieutenant-Colonel Aubert
  • 1939: Colonel Garletin.

Mission history

Huguenot Wars (1617 to 1622)

The regiment was set up by a Mr. de La Rainville with a patent dated February 3, 1617. It was under the command of de La Rainville, was erected only to cover the siege of Soissons and was released on April 24 of the same year after the death of the Maréchal d'Ancre .

On July 5, 1620, the regiment was set up again and used in the battle at Les Ponts-de-Cé . In 1621 it took part in the occupation of the Château de Saumur, as well as the siege of Montauban by Clérac and Monheurt. In the same year it passed to a nobleman from Champagne , a Herr de Menillet. In 1622 it was involved in the expedition to Île de Riez and the blockade of La Rochelle . Disbanded after the end of the campaign, it was taken into service from time to time as required - as the conditions in Languedoc and Guyenne required. The base for supply and accommodation seems to have been in Montauban.

Thirty Years War (1630 to 1635)

In 1630 the regiment was reorganized and from then on belonged to the standing army .

The following year it appeared in Lorraine and was involved in the siege of the citadel of Verdun , then in Catalonia in the sieges of Vic and Moyenvic .

From 1633 to 1634 it stood at the siege of Nancy , Haguenau , Zabern and Lunéville , the fortress La Mothe and the relief of the fortress Philippsburg

In March 1635 it fought on the side of the Régiment de Navarre in the siege and capture of Speyer . It distinguished itself in other skirmishes, such as the skirmish at Fresch. Under its new commander, Charles de Cocherel de Bourdonne, it was assigned to the garrison of Epinal , and in the following period took part in the capture of the permanent castles of Dompeyre, Charmes (Vosges) , Neufchâteau (Vosges) and Vaudémont .

Franco-Spanish War (1635 to 1659) and War of the Fronde (1648 to 1653)

On March 18, 1636, the regiment was with the troops of Maréchal Armand Nompar de Caumont and was involved in the battle at Baccarat , where a 2,000-man imperial detachment was blown up. The appearance and the good condition in which the regiment showed itself on this occasion earned him the white flag ribbons and an increase in personnel by five companies to now 20 companies.

Shortly thereafter, it was used in the siege of Dole. On August 6, the Mestre de camp was wounded while exploring the ramparts.

  • 1637 : the relocation to Flanders took place with the participation in the sieges of Landrecies , Maubeuge and La Capelle (Aisne) . On June 25, 1638, it was victorious during the siege of Saint-Omer, in which the Mestre de camp was badly wounded in the stomach and the Mestre de camp-lieutenant de Goulaines was killed. In November, it was among the victorious defenders of Chateau Cambrésis. In 1639 it fought at Hesdin and on August 4th in battle at Saint-Nicolas près Saint-Omer. In 1640 it was able to take a demi-lune of the fortification of Arras , but lost the Capitaine Granville in the process.
  • 1641 : it was at the siege of Aire, La Bassée, Bapaume; involved, but in 1642 it was included in La Bassée , together with the Régiment de La Marine .
  • 1643 : Battle of Rocroi . The regiment lost the Capitaines Breuil and Matharel.
  • 1644 : Relocation to the army in Italy followed with participation in the sieges of Santia and Asti. The following year it took part in the siege of Rocca di Vigevano and excelled in the battle at Mora. In 1645 it was in Tuscany and took part in the siege of Orbitello. After the siege was over, it was moved to the Piémont . In September it was used in the siege of Portolongone on the island of Elba . Here the Capitaine Bazin fell.
  • 1647 : The regiment was engaged at Cremona and took part in the battle at Civitale on October 28th.
  • 1648 : At the end of the year the regiment returned to France.

It fought in Flanders in 1650 and 1651 under the name "Régiment de Rezmont". It belonged to the garrison that defended Dunkirk in 1652 and then joined the small army in Aunis that operated against the partisans of Prince Condé .

  • 1653 : the regiment was transferred to Burgundy , where it was used in the siege of Bellegarde. In 1654 it moved to Guyenne and in 1655 to Catalonia, where it participated in the capture of Cap de Creus, Castillon, Cadagne and advanced in support of the garrison of Solsone.
  • 1657 : the regiment was in Italy, where it remained until the Peace of the Pyrenees . After that it returned to France and was stationed in Gravelines .

War of Devolution (1667 to 1668)

In 1661, the Comte d'Estrades sold his regiment to René Lallier, comte de Saintlieu, who died at the head of his soldiers in the siege of Berghes in 1667. It was then withdrawn by the king and made the heir to the throne's body regiment as the "Régiment du Dauphin". In the same year it served in Flanders, where it was garrisoned in the city after the capture of Charleroi. Assigned to Franche-Comté in 1668 , the regiment distinguished itself in the siege of Besançon and Dôle. After participating in the demolition of the fortifications of Dôle, the regiment was transferred to Tournai. Here it was ranked 16th in the ranking of infantry regiments.

In 1670 it belonged to the troops under the command of Marshal François de Créquy the Duke Charles IV. Expelled and Lorraine occupied. Epinal and Longwy were besieged.

In 1671 the unit was reinforced to 70 companies.

Dutch War (1672 to 1678)

1672 :

joined the regiment in the army in Holland and took part in the siege of Orsoy as the first action . The sieges of Rheinberg , Doesburg and Nijmegen followed , as well as a skirmish on the island of Bommel. After the capture of Utrecht, the king left the army, the unit moved under the command of Maréchal Turenne and spent the winter in quarters on the Moselle .

1673 :

In January it was involved in the expedition to the Electorate of Brandenburg, in which the cities of Unna , Kamen and Soest were captured. After the enemy had been pushed back to the Elbe , it withdrew into its garrisons.

's-Hertogenbosch

A détachement, commanded by Capitaine de Chantereine, stayed behind in Holland and fought in May at Bois-le-Duc against the garrison of Fort Crèvecœur (near 's-Hertogenbosch ). The department was then able to seize the fort and, after its destruction, withdrew to Kaiserswerth . The other part of the regiment stood at the siege of Maastricht , where it could stand out. After the subsequent siege of Trier and the end of the campaign, the unit was relocated to Burgundy.

1674 :

During the siege of Besançon in the year the regimental commander, Lieutenant Colonel de Berighien was killed by a cannonball on May 13th. When Dôle was subsequently taken, it was again able to distinguish itself in the demolition of a mine under a bastion . The king was very pleased with the force and rewarded seven captains of the regiment.

After the detour to Franche-Comté, the “Régiment du Dauphin” moved to Trier and then on to Soissons, where it moved into winter quarters.

1675 :

it covered the siege troops in front of Dinant , Huy and Limbourg, and then took quarters in Avesnes. The unrest in Brittany made it necessary to move to this province, where it was to remain until the situation calmed down.

1676 :

the transfer to Flanders took place with the participation in the sieges of Condé-sur-l'Escaut, and the enclosure of Aire-sur-la-Lys , where it was able to take the Covered Way on July 29th . Continuing the attack immediately, an advanced hornwork could be taken after overcoming the moat . The fortress surrendered the next day.

Then the siege of Maastricht. Nine companies moved to the fortress Philippsburg , where they took part in the removal of the village of Mühlberg in January of the following year under the Capitaine d'Inville . In the enclosed fortress Philippsburg, they formed a provisional battalion called “de La Marine” with the companies “Mars” and “Charles” of the Régiment de La Marine and another company, which excelled in the defense of the fortress.

The regiment was besieging Valenciennes and Cambrai in 1677. Cambrai was stormed by the regiments "Royal Infanterie" and "Dauphin Infanterie", while Dauphin lost more than 100 men in this attack. This was followed by participation in the siege of Charleroi and the subsequent winter billeting in Cassel (north) .

  • In 1678 Ghent was besieged and then transferred to Ypres, which offered little resistance. Battle of Saint Denis and defense of the Château de Castiau. It was here that the battalion commanders de Givray and de Balzac, the Capitaines Lautrec, Wissouse, Séricey, Mauléon, la Trinque, Notaume, Glezac, and four lieutenants fell. Around 20 officers were wounded.

Peace time

At the end of the war the regiment was in Huy and then returned to France, where it was stationed in Hesdin and Montreuil. The battalion "de Chantereine" was in Freiburg im Breisgau.

In 1680 the unit was stationed in Lille, where it was inspected by the king - the Dauphin was at the head of his regiment for the first time. The following year, the regiment was transferred from Valenciennes to Freiburg to be used there in the work on the fortifications. In 1682 it worked on the Longwy fortifications.

Reunion War (1683 to 1684)

In 1683 the unit was in Camp de Molsheim. From here she went to Flanders and in 1683 covered the siege troops outside Luxembourg .

In May 1685 the regiment was commanded to Versailles and inspected by the Dauphin. Then it moved to Boulogne and the surrounding area.

War of the Palatinate Succession (1688 to 1697)

When war broke out in 1688, the regiment formed a brigade with the Régimend de Picardie in the Rhine Army, which was commanded by the Dauphin (later King Louis XIV ). It was involved in the siege of Philippsburg and in the conquest of the Palatinate. After the end of the campaign it was in Mainz .

Mainz 1689

During the siege of Mainz in 1689, it was one of the city's defenders. At the beginning of the fighting, the Capitaine Doron distinguished himself in repelling an attack on the advanced works of the bridgehead. When it fell out on August 16, the regiment was involved in heavy fighting and lost the Capitaine Le Prestre and the Lieutenants Boisroger, Lévis, Le Gardeur, Bouthillier and Sarazin. The Capitaine du Héron and Lieutenant du Sart fell in the no less violent failure on August 19. After the ammunition and food ran out, the crew had to capitulate and received an honorable deduction. The regiment had lost a total of 13 officers and 300 soldiers.

Replenished in Strasbourg, the unit then took part in the 1690 campaign in Germany and was sent to the army in Flanders in 1691. Here the grenadiers distinguished themselves during the siege of Mons on April 2, that Louis XIV gave them a special honor. The grenadiers had torn down the fascines and bulwarks in a breach with manure or pitchforks , which is why the sergeants of the grenadiers (also of the later Regiment du Perche) were allowed to carry forks instead of a rifle.

In the campaign of 1691 it was in the army of the Maréchal de Luxembourg , fought in battle near Leuze and moved to its winter quarters in Tournai, where a third battalion was set up.

The year 1692 began with the siege of Namur . Here the regiment suffered great losses, three officers and 126 men were killed, 41 officers and 296 men were wounded. In Douai, the unit was replenished with personnel and left the city in December for the siege of Château de Créqui. From there it moved to Furnes, which immediately surrendered. In 1693 it was in Flanders until June 12th and then moved to Germany. It returned to Flanders in 1694 and was in Namur until the end of the year. Here it belonged to the fortress garrison during the siege of Namur (1695) the following year . After the fortress surrendered, the regiment moved to Lorraine, where it was housed in Saint-Mihiel and Bar-le-Duc.

In 1696 it was involved in the Maas campaigns and in 1697 in Flanders, where it took part in the siege of Ath.

After the Peace of Rijswijk , it was garrisoned at Valenciennes and transferred to the Compiègne camp the following year. In 1699 it was in Tournai and in 1700 in Givet.

War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

In 1701 the regiment belonged to the army of Maréchal de Boufflers , occupied and defended Mechelen and spent the winter in Liège .

In 1702 the Dutch were expelled from Nijmegen, followed by the march into Alsace with the siege of Kehl. Afterwards participation in the attack on the Stolhofen lines and occupation of the Kintzig valley . Used on a massive scale in the Black Forest , it fought successfully at Hornberg . Then the march through Germany was continued, there was a battle at Munderkingen and the First Battle at Höchstädt . Here the regiment suffered massive losses, 14 officers were killed (including the Capitaines du Bousquet, Belleroche, La Serre, Valliére, Quincy and d'Anglais) and a further eight were wounded. The year ended with the sieges of Ulm and Augsburg , and winter quarters were taken in Ulm. Here Monsieur de Montbaron died of smallpox .

In 1704, commanded to the troops of General Ferdinand de Marsin , the regiment took part in the Second Battle of Höchstädt . Afterwards it was commanded to the Camp de Sierck and spent the winter in Strasbourg.

In 1705 it fought with the troops of Maréchal Villars on the Weissenburg lines. In August it received the order to move to Piedmont. Before this order could be carried out, a new order came which directed the regiment to the county of Nice . Under the Maréchal Fitz-James de Berwick , it was involved in the siege of Nice, in which it opened the trenches on December 11th.

In 1706 it was relocated to Piedmont, where many of the attackers lost their lives during the siege of Turin due to the explosion of a mine. When Prince Eugene attacked the French lines in the Battle of Turin in September , the Régiment du Dauphin was lying in forward redoubts of the siege ring to cover the retreat of the army. Then only the 1st battalion managed to cross the bridge over the Po , the other two battalions were taken prisoner. Two days after the battle the remnants of the regiment arrived in Pignerol , there were only 150 men left.

The king then designated Besançon as a garrison for re-establishment. The 1st Battalion was quickly operational again and moved to Flanders in 1708 to take part in the local campaign. It fought in the Battle of Oudenaarde , where it was used as cover when the defeated troops withdrew. It then withdrew to the camp in Meldert, where it remained during the siege of Lille . When the army was split up, the regiment first went to Besançon and then took up positions on the Lauter during the next three years.

In 1712 the three battalions joined the army in Flanders. In the battle of Quesnoy, two battalions of the regiment were captured by the Dutch. On the march to Holland, almost all men escaped and rejoined their unit. The regiment then almost completely set out for the Rhine again. It stood here during the siege of Landau in 1713. Together with the Swiss Foreign Regiment de Brendle and the Régiment de Chartres , the siege trenches began on July 28th.

Then the regiment was involved in the victory over the Austrian field marshal Joseph Paul Marquis de Vaubonne and in the siege of Freiburg im Breisgau.

After the peace treaty, the remains of the "Régiment de Payssac" were incorporated on January 14, 1714, and those of the "Régiment de Bouhyer" on January 21.

Until 1733 the regiment was not involved in any combat operations.

War of the Polish Succession (1733-1738)

Assigned to the army in Italy at the beginning of the war, it was involved in the siege of Pizzighettone and Villa d'Adda . The winter quarters were moved to Lodi (Lombardy) . On January 5, 1734, the excavation work began in front of Novara , followed by the siege of Tortona . Immediately afterwards, the regiment took part in a battle in Guastalla .

In the Battle of Parma , the regiment stood behind the Régiment de Picardie in the second row. It lost the Capitains Bourlmanachi, Vierzac, Lauzières, de Blond, Poussin, Chiros and seven lieutenants to fallen, 22 other officers and more than 200 men were also to be lamented in losses. Under the command of the Marquis de Mallebois, the unit was then involved in the capture of Modena .

On September 19, 1734, the regiment fought in the Battle of Guastalla . Initially deployed on the right wing, it was then, together with the regiments d'Orleans , Tessé and Luxembourg, ordered to the left wing to defend the bridge over the Po. At the end of the day the regiment only had 13 officers, 54 officers and more than 800 men were among the losses. M. de Chastes, who had just been promoted to the Maréchal de camp , had died of his wounds.

Since the regiment was no longer able to continue to take part in the campaign, it was first garrisoned in Guastalla.

In 1735 it was then involved in the capture of Gonzague, Reggiolo and Revere. In June 1736 it returned to France and was stationed in Valence and Montélimar . In 1738 it moved to Briançon and later to Languedoc .

War of the Austrian Succession (1740 to 1748)

  • In 1741 the regiment went to Givet and remained in charge of observing the Flemish border until 1742.
  • In 1743 it moved to Douai to join the army of the Maréchal de Noailles near Landau. On May 10th the regiment was ordered to Worms to cover the flank of the army in March. On June 5th it fought in the Battle of Dettingen . It was then stationed in the camp near Benheim until August 17 and then moved to Upper Alsace with the troops of the Maréchal de camp de Saxe . The winter quarters were moved into Mézières and Charleville .
  • Seconded to the army in Flanders in 1744 , it was involved in the threat to Lille and the siege of Menen and Ypres. After that it was garrisoned in the Courtrai camp until the end of the campaign. In the same year a third battalion was set up in Dole and added to the regiment in the Condè.
  • In 1745 the regiment was besieged in front of Tournai and withdrew from there on May 7th to take a position on the area in front of Fontenoy. In the Battle of Fontenoy it was able to repel three attacks by the Dutch. The own losses amounted to 350 men and two officers. After the Allies withdrew, they returned to Tournai, where the siege ended with the capitulation of the citadel. The sieges of Oudenaarde and Termonde followed, and the winter was spent in Ostend . Here the regiment was determined to participate in the expedition to England.
Battle of Roucourt
  • In 1746 the campaign began with the siege of Brussels . The regiment was transferred from Brussels to Antwerp, where the regiment commander, the lieutenant colonel Marquis de Chouiseul-Meuse, died of an illness. (His designated successor, the Marquis de Bréval, was still a prisoner of war in the Piémont at the time and was only able to join the regiment during the siege of Bergen op Zoom in 1747. ) This was followed by participation in the battle of Rocourt and the subsequent transfer to Antwerp . Here it was used until June 17, 1747 for the construction of advanced fortress sections.

At the beginning of the siege of Bergen op Zoom the regiment advanced with 2055 men and had to record 855 men in losses after the conquest of the city. The Capitaines Serinchamp, Faremont, Clermont, Gray, Flaccieux, Genas, Bonneville and Gabrielli had fallen. Then it marched to Calais, which was threatened by a British fleet and was then used to secure Normandy and Brittany . The 4th Battalion, which had been set up in Douai the year before and which was disbanded after a very short time, was incorporated here. The 3rd battalion was disbanded in 1749, the 2nd battalion was relocated to Belle-Île-en-Mer and the 1st battalion to Vannes. At the end of the year it was in Dunkirk to be stationed in Mézières, Charleville and Sedan for the next six years of peace.

Seven Years War (1756 to 1763)

In 1756 the regiment was in the Camp de La Hougue, from where it marched to Toul in 1757 to receive the order to join the army of Maréchal Louis-Charles-César Le Tellier in Wesel . From there it moved to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel and on to the Electorate of Hanover . It took part in all actions of the campaign and in 1758 belonged to the rearguard of the army of Maréchal Victor-François de Broglie during the retreat to the Rhine. In the same year it moved through Hanau and took winter quarters in Friedberg (Hesse) .

  • In 1759 it was at the siege of Münster . Here it lost more than 350 men, 150 of them dead. In a brigade with the Régiment d'Enghien "Dauphin" fought in the battle near Bergen
  • In 1760 it took part in the battle near Korbach and the Battle of Warburg and spent the winter in Fulda .
  • In spring 1761 it was moved to Hersfeld . In the battle of Vellinghausen it was able to distinguish itself again next to the Régiment du Roi . Together with the Régiment de Royal Deux-Ponts it occupied Vellinghausen , but could only hold out with difficulty. Almost all grenadiers and fighters in the regiment were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. In October the regiment left the army to be refreshed in Dunkirk.
  • Back in Germany in 1762 , it was assigned to the Prince de Codé Reserve . It took part in the bombardment of Hameln, the Grenadier and Jäger companies moved with an army detachment to Osnabrück and denied the last operation on this theater of war. Relocated back to Dunkirk on February 17, 1763, parts of the dissolved Régiment de Guyenne were incorporated here as a fourth battalion.

post war period

Relocated to Metz in December 1763, it stayed here until 1766. At the same time, it moved to the Camp de Soissons and, after its dissolution, on to Montpellier , where it arrived in October. Parts were assigned to Nîmes and Avignon .

Merged again in Toulon in 1768 , they were relocated to Corsica in 1769 to help pacify the island. Back in Toulon in August of the same year, it went to Strasbourg in September, where it was used to receive the Dauphine Marie Antoinette in 1770 . In 1771 it was ordered to Poitiers because of fear of political unrest here. In September 1772 the transfer took place to La Rochelle , then to Rouen , Caen and Valognes and in October 1774 to Valenciennes. Here the regiment was divided. It was now formed from the 1st and 3rd Battalion, while the 2nd and 4th Battalion had to be given up to set up the Régiment du Perche.

In April 1776 Valenciennes was left and marched to Lille, in March 1777 the transfer to Brest took place. Here a detachement was ordered on the liner "L'Actif", with which it took part in the naval battle off Ouessant on July 27th . The rest of the regiment moved to Sarrelouis, where it stayed until May 1779, before moving to Metz. It was followed by Thionville in May 1780, Metz in July 1779, Thionville in May 1780, Metz in July 1780, Rennes and Nantes in April 1782, Metz in May 1783, Maubeuge in November 1787. In August 1788 it was conducted to Tours Ordered back in October without arriving in Tours. In April 1789 it was in Givet to be called from there because of the unrest around Paris. After the storm on the Bastille it went back to Givet, came to Philippeville in March 1791, where it stayed until the outbreak of the First Coalition War .

Wars of the Revolution and the First Empire

The two battalions were commanded to the Armée du Nord. The regiment fought in the cannonade near Valmy and under Charles-François Dumouriez in the battle of Jemappes . It then belonged to the garrison of Liège and was used in the battle of Neer winds .

After massive pressure from the Austrian troops under Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen , a retreat from Belgium began. The 1st battalion marched to Valenciennes, the 2nd battalion to Mainz. In both fortresses it was involved in the defense until the respective surrender.

It was then relocated to the eastern departments, where it earned itself on October 23, 1792 in the battle near Laval and in all subsequent battles up to the destruction of the Armée vendéenne near Savenay .

At the first amalgamation, only the 2nd battalion was available, which was renamed "59ème demi-brigade de bataille" - without volunteer battalions being integrated.

In the course of the second merger, all lines of tradition were interrupted. The new "29e demi-brigade d'infanterie" was formed from the former "164e demi-brigade de bataille", in which associations of the 90 e régiment d'infanterie , the "1 er bataillon de volontaires d'Eure-et- Loir ”and the“ 8 e bataillon de volontaires de la Meurthe ”. So there were no longer any members of the former “Régiment du Dauphin”. During the reorganization in 1803, the “29 e brigade” was quickly made into the “20 e régiment d'infanterie” and the tradition transferred to it.

1794: Battles at Hertogenbosch and Tiel
1797: Siege of Mantua
1799: Skirmishes at Perona, Lecco, Savigliano and Vaprio d'Adda , Battle of Magnano , Battle of the Adda , Defense of Mantua
1805: Battle of Verona, Battle of Caldiero
1806: Fight at Gaeta
1807: Siege of Reggio Calabria
1808: fighting in Calabria
1809: Battles near Villanova, San Bonifacio , San Daniele Po , Battle of Raab , Battle of Wagram
1812: Osmiana, sack of Vilna , in Kaunas
1813: in Königsberg (Prussia) and Danzig
1814: Fortress garrison in Hamburg under Maréchal Louis-Nicolas Davout
1815: Battle of Waterloo

1815 to 1848

  • 1830: By order of September 18, the 4th battalion was set up. The regiment now consisted of 3,000 men.
  • 1828–1833: Participation in the expedition to the Peloponnese to support the monarchy after the Greek Revolution

Second empire

On August 16, 1870, a fourth battalion was set up from reservists and called up, which after leaving the depot became the "8 e régiment de marche" (8th marching regiment ) in the 2nd brigade of the 1st Infantry Division in the 13th Army Corps.

Third Republic

  • 1895–1896: Participation in the military expedition to establish absolute French rule over Madagascar .

First World War

Allocation:

  • 32nd Infantry Brigade
  • 16th Infantry Division from August 1914 to January 1917.
  • 169th Infantry Division from January 1917 to November 1918.
  • 8th Army Corps
  • 1914
August: Defensive battles in Lorraine ( Sarrebourg - La Mortagne - Clézentaine )
September to December: Fights in the Woëvre (Bois Jura - La Route - La Louvriere)
  • 1915
January: La Louvriere
March: Trench warfare near Riauville - Fay en Haye - Regneville - Remanauville
May to July 24th: at Le Vaux Fay - La Tête à Vache
July 30th to August 24th: trench warfare at La Louviere
August 29th to September 16th: trench warfare at La Tête à Vache
September 27: at La Croix Saint Jean
  • 1916
January 21 to February 21: Army Reserve
February 21: Battle of Verdun
March 18th: Trench warfare at Les Éparges
April 4th to 12th: Trench warfare at Les Éparges
April 17th to May 23rd: Trench warfare at Bonzée - Villers - Murauveux
May 26th to June 3rd: trench warfare at Les Éparges
June 24th to July 2nd: trench warfare at Les Éparges
July 11th to August 1st: aggressive battles near Verdun
October to November: Position at Neuviller-sur-Moselle
November 30th: at Berny en Santerre
December 10: Army reserve
  • 1917
January 24th: Sainte-Menehould
March: Main de Massignes
April 2nd: Quiet
April 19: at Mont Cornillet
April 25: Army reserve
May 13: at Marquisee and at Mont Cornillet
June 2 to February 22, 1918: Fighting at the Four de Paris (Argonne)
  • 1918
February 23: at Camp de Mailly
March 29th: Army reserve
March 31 to April 4: near Montdidier (Somme)
May 27th to June 17th: Battle of the Aisne (June 8th: Fighting at Domfront (Orne) )
August 9-18: Battle of Amiens
September 9th to October 13th: Aggressive battles at Saint Simon and Benay Panavesne
October 13 to November 11: Border patrol at the Belgian-French border
  • Losses of the regiment
Fallen officers: 41
Fallen non-commissioned officers and men: 1189
Officers who died from their wounds: 17
NCOs and men who died from their wounds: 724
Missing officers: 4
Missing NCOs and crews: 353
Wounded officers: 111
Wounded NCOs and men: 5012
Officers who died of illnesses: 3
NCOs and men who died of illness: 458

Second World War

On September 7, 1939, the regiment by the Région Militaire, réserve A RI; type NE Mobilisateur d'infanterie n ° 81 brought to the state of war. It was under the command of Colonel Garletin and was divided into three battalions and an anti-tank company. It was subordinate to the 16th Infantry Division. It fought with this in the battle south of Amiens, in which 136 Panzer III and Panzer IV were destroyed.

It was one of the few French units that earned an honorable mention by the army command in this campaign.

"It victoriously resisted the attacks that were carried out with force by an enemy well-equipped with tanks"

After the Armistice of Compiègne it was dissolved.

Regimental flags

Until the revolution, the regiment carried six flags, one with a white center as the body flag of the regiment holder (Drapeau colonel). The ordinance flags were designed in red, blue and yellow, with the coat of arms of monseigneur le Dauphin, a white cross and blue and yellow border. The regiment's motto appeared on the bars of the cross.

  • Régiment du Dauphin 1667 to 1791. Ordonnance flag

  • Régiment du Dauphin, body flag (Drapeau colonel).

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.

  • 29e RI 1812 av.png
  • 29e regiment d'infanterie 1940 av.png
  • 29e rég d'infanterie 1940 rev.png

Awards

The regiment's flag ribbon is decorated with the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (February 22, 1918).

  • Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with two palm branches and a gilded star

  • Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 with a palm branch

  • Fourragère in the colors of the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with the olive for the awarded Croix de guerre 1939–1945

Motto

Res praestant non verba fidem
(Believe the deeds, not the words)

literature

  • Lieutenant general de Vault “Mémoires militaires relatifs à la guerre d'Espagne sous Louis XIV” Edited by: Imprimerie Royale (Paris) 1835 books.google.be .
  • Chronologie historique-militaire , par M. Pinard, tomes 3, 5, 7 et 8, Paris 1761, 1762, 1764 et 1765
  • À partir du Recueil d'historiques de l'Infanterie française (général Andolenko - Eurimprim 1969).
  • The work Historique des régiments du Dauphin et Perche by Général Susane serves as the source for the articles “Huguenot Wars” through “Post-War Period”

Web links

Commons : Flags of the 29 ° regiment d'infanterie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German: 29th Infantry Regiment
  2. ↑ This approval was valid until the dissolution of the Napoleonic army in 1815
  3. ↑ whether these were stylized or real forks is no longer known
  4. ^ Lieutenant general de Vault, "Mémoires militaires relatifs à la guerre d'Espagne sous Louis XIV", tome 1, 1835.
  5. ↑ Beginning of the actual attack by creating the zigzag trenches.
  6. ↑ but nothing came of it
  7. ↑ a battalion went to Canada
  8. ↑ why this was so is not known
  9. ↑ Histoire de l'infanterie en France de Victor Louis Jean François Belhomme Vol 5 page 151
  10. ↑ declared dead
  11. ↑ declared dead
  12. ↑ French information
  13. ^ Citation, 1940. Une citation à l'ordre de l'armée.
  14. ↑ Cinquième abrégé général du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer. Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris 1739.
  15. ↑ «  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 ")
  16. ↑ "  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 ")
  17. ↑ This also applies to units that have already been disbanded, as they can (theoretically) be put back into active service at any time
  18. ↑ chtimiste.com des régiments de 1914-19178
  19. ↑ Regulation 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 industry. Published with the Official Army Bulletin No. 27 of November 9, 2007
  20. ^ 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