16th regiment of infantry of line

The 16th regiment of infantry of line is a French regiment created at the end of the Ancien Mode starting from battalions of the Régiment of Béarn. Regimental History

Creation and various denominations

  • 1776 : Creation from 2nd and 4th battalions of the Regiment of Béarn under the name of Regiment of Agénois .
  • 1791 : famous 16th Regiment of Infantry of Line
  • 1793 : Transformed into 16th Half-brigade of Battle , starting from the following units:
    • 2nd battalion of the 8 {{E}} Regiment of Infantry
    • 3rd battalion of Volunteers of the Cantal
    • 2nd battalion of Volunteers of Haute-Marne
  • 1796 : Transformed into 16th Half-brigade of Infantry of Line , starting from the following units:
    • 110 {{E}} Half-brigade of Battle (2nd battalion of the 55 {{E}} Regiment of Infantry, 6th and 7th battalions of volunteers of Meurthe)
    • 2nd and 3rd battalions of the Half-brigade of Yonne
  • 1803 : Famous 16th Regiment of Infantry of Line
  • 1854 : Famous 16th Regiment of Infantry
  • 1914 : To the mobilization, it gives rise to the ''' 216 {{E}} Régiment of Infantry '''
  • 1921 : Dissolution

Colonel S Chief of brigade

(*) Officer who became thereafter Brigadier general. (**) Officer who became thereafter Major general.

Colonels killed or wounded whereas it ordered the 16th RIL:

  • Colonel Gudin: wounded on July 6th, 1809 and on October 25th, 1811

Killed or wounded officers whereas they were used for the 16th RIL during the period 1804-1815:

  • killed Officers: 35
  • Officers dead of the continuations of their wounds: 11
  • wounded Officers: 126

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 16th IH

Old Mode

War of independence of the United States of America

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

  • 1792: Sit of Namur
  • 1793: Sit of Maestricht, Namur and seat and captures of Furnes
  • 1794: Boeschequepe, Seat and capture of Menin, Tourcoing, Sieège de Ypres and the island of Casandra
  • 1796: Wetzlar, Bamber, Forcheim, Neukirchen and Wolfering
  • 1797: Wurtzberg, Giessen and Neuwied
  • 1799: Offenbourg
  • 1800: Stockach, Engen, Biberach, Erbach, Ampfing and Hohenlinden
  • 1805: Trafalgar
  • 1809: Neumarck, Ebersberg, Aspern-Essling, Wagram and Znaïm
  • 1809: Sit of Rosas and Girone
  • 1810: Capture strong Olivio, Siège of Tarragone and Mount-Serrat
  • 1811: Sit of Sagonte, Bataille of Sagonte, Siège of Valence, Alicante and Saint-Felipe
  • 1813: Lützen, Bautzen, Wurschen, Dresden and Leipzig
  • 1814: Rothiere, Vauchamps, Fère-Champagne the and Paris

1815 to 1848

Second Empire

1870 to 1914

1/23/1871 receives the Volunteers for the duration of the war.

First World War

Assignment: 25 {{E}} Division of Infantry of August 1914 in November 1918

1914

  • August: Lorraine, surroundings of Sarrebourg, combat with Schneckenbusch and Brouderdorf
  • September:
    • the Vosges, Roville-with-Oaks, Xaffevillers
    • Oise, Ribécourt, Dreslincourt
  • October at November: Picardy, wood of the Cabins
  • November 1914 in August 1915: Oise, sector of Canny-on-Matz

1915

  • September 1915 in January 1916: Oise, closes of Antoval

1916

  • March: Verdun, Death-Man
  • June at September: Aisne, Autrêches
  • October at November: the Sum, wood of Chaulnes, wood Kratz

1917

  • January at March: Oise, Canny-on-Matz
  • March: go on Saint-Quentin
  • April at June: attempts to take Saint-Quentin, Rocourt, Estruses
  • August: Verdun, wood of Avocourt
  • September at November: Argonne, Boureuilles
  • December 1917 in January 1918: Verdun, Bezonvaux

1918

  • February at June: Argonne
  • July: 2nd battle of the Marne, Large-Rozoy
  • August at September: Vesle, Aisne, Ostel

to retain: a street in Saint-Etienne bears the name of an officer of the 16th IH killed, it acts of the second lieutenant Joseph VERGNETTE, killed on December 18th, 1914 with Canny-on-Matz, fall to see with the cemetery of Crêt de Roch Another name: Marcel DEAT, who collaborated, was lieutenant with the 16th IH in 1914-1918

Montbrison and Saint-Etienne, regiment dissolved in 1921

Inter-war period

  • 1921 : Dissolution

Second world war

  • nothing.

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

  • 1800: Hohenlinden
  • 1809 : Wagram
  • 1811 : Sagonte

sources

Bonds

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