17th regiment of infantry of line

The 17th Régiment of Infanterie of line (17th IH) is a regiment among oldest. It was particularly distinguished with Austerlitz (1805), Auerstadt (1806) and with Moskowa (1812). It is dissolved in 1921.

Creation and various denominations

  • 1597 : Creation of the Regiment of the Borough of Lespinasse .
  • 1635 : Becomes Régiment of Auvergne . From 1616 to 1635 of new regiments became permanent. They were called them * " small vieux". Like the 21 {{E}} R.I, 13 {{E}} R.I, 15 {{E}} R.I, 17 {{E}} R.I, 19 {{E}} R.I, 48 {{E}} R.I.
  • 1791 : Becomes 17th Regiment of Infantry
  • 1793: 17th Half-Brigade of Battle becomes the . Constituted of the following units:
    • 1st battalion of the 9 {{E}} Regiment of Ifanterie
    • 2nd battalion of volunteers of the Indre
    • 3rd battalion of volunteers of the Seine-Lower
  • 1796: 17th Half-Brigade of Infantry of Line , made up of the following units:
    • 33 {{E}} Half-Brigade of Battle (1st battalion, 17th Regiment of Infantry, 5th battalion of volunteers of the the Sarthe and 1st colonial battalion of volunteers Port-au-Prince)
    • 178e half-brigade of battle (2nd Battalion, 99 {{E}} Regiment of Infantry, 6th battalion of volunteers of the Northern and 7th battalion of volunteers of the Seine-Lower )
    • Half-brigade of the Eure and Moors (3rd battalion of volunteers of the Eure, 5th battalion of volunteers of the Moors and 6th battalion of volunteers Haute-Garonne)
  • 1803: Becomes the 17th Regiment of Infantry of Line
  • 1854: Famous 17th Regiment of Infantry
  • 1914: To the mobilization, it gives rise to the ''' 217 {{E}} Régiment of Infantry '''

Colonels/chief-of-brigade

Old mode

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

Colonels killed or wounded by ordering the regiment for this period:

Officers wounded or killed by using for 17th between 1804 and 1815:

  • killed Officers: 43
  • dead Officers their wounds: 36
  • wounded Officers: 250

Restoration

  • 1830 : Andre, Jean, Alexandre Duprat

IIe Republic and Second Empire

1870 - 1914

First World War

Between two war

Second world war

from 1945 to our days

(*) These officers became brigadier generals thereafter. (**) These officers became generals of division. thereafter

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 17th IH of line

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

Of 1815 with 1848

- The first 2 battalions belong to the forwarding of Algiers - Combat of Dely-Hibrahim and Sidi-Kalef from June 24th to 29th - Catch of Algiers on July 5th - from November 17th to 19th forwarding of the Atlas (Blida-Medeha) - on December 17th sent to Oran - returns to France in November 1831

Second Empire

Of 1871 with 1914

With Béziers since the beginning of the IIIe Republic, this Languedocien regiment refuses to apply the repressive instructions against the wine growers of the Languedoc having taken share with the wine riots of 1907, it is moved with Gap then close to Épinal in 1914, a battalion with Rambervillers and two battalions with the Haxo Barracks of Golbey. The soldiers mutineers are transferred in the garrison of Gafsa, in Tunisia.

Revolt of the vine growers of Languedoc in 1907. Victims of the overproduction, the vine growers feel threatened by the “fraud” in manufacture of the wine, in particular chaptalization, addition of sugar, which would benefit the industrialists. In an area where the vine is an essential activity, the crisis mobilizes the populations and, in March 1907, claims and protests multiply under the aegis of two colourful figures, Marcellin Albert, small holder and café owner, and the mayor of Narbonne, Ernest Ferroul.

The tension goes up gradually; the soldiers of various local regiments enter the movement, sometimes by singing the International one. The drama occurs in Narbonne, in June: shootings of troops charged to ensure the order - come from other areas - make several deaths. On the other hand, the local recruitment of the army makes the conscripts interdependent of the medium in which they evolve/move. Also, when the 17th IH, direct emanation of the “people of the vine growers”, is moved of Béziers to Agde, the time of the events of Narbonne, its men worry fate about Bitterois delivered to the army rabble, so much and so that several hundreds of them, with the contempt of the orders, Béziers, “stick in the air regain”, and settle in full downtown area with many supports (June 21st, 1907). This disobedience, apotheosis of the crisis, cease soon without major incident, while the government votes a law on chaptalization.

The repression, which could have struck heavily, remains limited. The mutineers of 17th are exiled in Gafsa (Tunisia), place of quartering of disciplinary companies; but they remain apart from this framework, under an ordinary military statute. There were thus no penal sanctions with the revolt of 17th, contrary to the legend, which ran on this subject.

First World War

Assignment:
  • 13 {{E}} Division of Infantry of August 1914 in December 1916

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

  • Parly, Soissons, Amblény, Auberive, Saint-Hilaire, Nap-Py

Inter-war period

The regiment was dissolved in 1921 and did not appear any more since this date in the battle order of the French Army

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

Decoration

Famous people having been used for the 17th IH

  • the count de Guibert, French theorist of the war, made there its first weapons at 13 years (1756) and there fights of 1758 to 1763 (Guerre Seven Year old).

See too

  • Glory with 17th, song written by Montéhus on a music of R. Chantegrelet and P. Doubis, in the honor of the fraternization of 17th of line with the revolted wine growers of 1907.

Internal bonds

  • List of the French regiments
  • List of the ranks in the French Army

External bonds

  • Center of genealogy and military history

Sources and references

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