Cambrésis regiment (1684-1775)-Wikipedia

Cambrésis regiment
Cambrésis regiment prescription flag
Creation	1684
Dissolution	1775
Pays	France
Allegiance	Kingdom of France
Type	regiment
Role	line infantry
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The Cambrésis regiment is an infantry regiment of the Kingdom of France created in 1684 and incorporated into the Saintonge regiment in 1775.

• 1684: Marquis de Chateaurenault
• October 17, 1693 : Charles François Anne, count of Montberon, brigadier the December 23, 1702 , † January 1704
• 1694: N. de Vienne, Marquis de Presle
• February 12, 1702 : François Louis d’Hautfort, count of Marquessac, brigadier the December 23, 1702 , † April 4, 1747
• January 11, 1708 : Jérôme Augustin de Boisset, Marquis d’Arville, Brigadier le first ^is February 1719 , † September 23, 1744
• May 18, 1732 : Claude Louis de Bouthilier, count of Pontchavigny, brigadier the February 20, 1743
• August 22, 1743 : Charles Pierre de la Châtre-Nançay, Marquis de la Châtre, brigadier the first ^is January 1748 , camp marshal October 15, 1758 , lieutenant general of the King’s armies July 25, 1762
• May 7, 1758 : Armand Charles, Viscount of Barrin
• July 25, 1762 : Louis Charles Le Pellerin de Gauville
• November 27, 1765 : Eugène Eustache de Mézières, count of Bethisy
• January 3, 1770 : Jean Gabriel de la Roque, Comte de can

History of garrisons, fights and battles of the regiment [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• September 11, 1684 : training of the Cambrésis regiment from the 3 ^{It is} Piedmont battalion
• 1689: Alpes; Cahours
• 1690: Staffarde ( August 18 ), where the colonel is injured
• 1696: Valenza
• 1697: Flanders
• 1701: Italy
• 1702: Defense of Cremona, where the colonel is killed
• 1703: Luzzara. Tyrol
• 1704 – 1705: Verceil, Ivrée, Verue ( October 14 – April 9, 1705 )
• August 16, 1705 : Cassano
• 1706:
• 1707 – 1710: Dauphiné
• 1711: Flanders
• 1712: Denain, Douai, Le Quesnoy, Bouchain
• 1733 – 1735: Rhine
• November 15, 1738 in Provence to go to the island of Corsica ^{[ first ]}
• 1739 – 1741: Corsica
• 1742: Flanders
• 1744 : Alsace
• 1745: Hre time
• 1746: Flanders. Mons, Charleroi, Namur, Raucoux ( October 11 )
• 1747 – 1748 : Provence, Nice
• 1756: Brittany
• 1757: all-yr, Hasaspereck ( July 26 )
• 1758 : Hanovre. Crefeld ( June 23 ). Brittany, Saint-Cast ( September 11th )

During the reorganization of the French infantry bodies of 1762, the regiment retains a battalion and was assigned to the service of the navy and the colonies and the custody of the ports in the kingdom.
The prescription also stops the clothing and equipment of the regiment as follows ^{[ 2 ]}
Habit, collar, reverse, white jacket and panties, green facings, ordinary legs garnished with five pimples, three on each round, four on the reverse and four below: yellow buttons, with the n ^O 70. Hat bordered with gold.

3 flags, including a white colonel, and 2 prescription “red, green & yellow in 4 quarters as opposed, & white cross” ^{[ first ]} .

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  regiment of Cambrésis from 1684 to 1775

Collar, facings and red jacket; golden pimples and braids; wide pockets garnished with 9 goose legs; 6 buttons on the sleeve. In 1763, Saxon green facings and yellow buttons.

• Uniforms of the Cambrésis Regiment
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  from 1720 to 1734

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  from 1734 to 1757

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  from 1757 to 1762

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  from 1762 to 1767

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  Grenadier from 1762 to 1767

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  from 1767 to 1775

Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Fifth abbreviated of the Military of France Maple, on land and on sea – since November 1737 , until December 1738 , Pierre Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris 1739
• Military State of France for the year 1760 , by the sieurs of Montandre-Longchamps, at Guillyn, Paris 1760
• Historical-military chronicle , Pinard, volumes 6 and 8, Paris 1763 and 1778

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