19th regiment of infantry of line

The 19th regiment of infantry of line is a French regiment created under the Ancien Mode.

Creation and various denominations

1597 : Creation under the name of Regiment of Lesdiguières . 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.
1703 : Famous Regiment of Tessé .
1732 : Famous Regiment of Tallard .
1739 : Famous Regiment of Monaco .
1749 : Famous Regiment of Belsunce .
1761 : Famous Regiment of Red .
1763 : Famous Regiment of Flandres .
1776 : Two of its battalions form the Régiment of Cambrésis.
1791 : Famous 19th Regiment of Infantry of Line .
1815 : Bachelor, transformed into Legion of Hautes-Alpes
1854: Famous 19th Regiment of Infantry
1914: With the mobilization, it forms the ''' 219 {{E}} Régiment of Infantry '''
1920: Dissolved
1939: September 2nd, 19th R.I. is reconstituted in Landerneau.
1940 : May 19th, the Flag must be flaring in Terrière (Northern) to escape the hands from the enemy.
1964 : June 11th reconstitution of the Regiment of Reserve created in Brest within the framework of the operational Defense of Territory (D.O.T) it will be called: 19th R.I.D.
1979: 19th R.I.D. takes the denomination of 19th R.I.
1998 : The definitively dissolved Regiment.

Colonel S Chief of brigade

Nicolas Etienne Hanus (approx. 1763 - 8/2/1804) Originating in Libremont (Remiremont, 88), he is captain of the 3rd battalion of the 19th half-brigade of light infantry at the time of his marriage on September 16th, 1794 with Shoed (35) with Marie Letranchant.

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 19th IH

Principal Combat and Seats in which 19th R.I.de 1597 took part to 1940

Catch of Aiguebelle, 1597 - Catch of Montmélian, 1600 - Wart, 1625 - Suze, 1629 - Buffalora, 1636 - Casal, 1640 - Pinks, 1645 - Oporto-Longone, 1646 - Rethel, 1650 - Passage du Rhin, 1672 - Puycerda, 1678 - Philippsbourg, 1688 - Marsaille, 1693 - Barcelona, 1697 - Luzzara, 1702 - Verceil, 1704 - Kehl, 1733 - Raucoux, 1746 - Lawfeld, 1747 - Hastembeck, 1757 - Lutterberg, 1758 - Minden, 1759 - Willingshausen, 1761 - Valmy Jemmapes, 1792 - Wattignies, 1793 - Mouscron, 1794 - Mantoue, 1796 - Castiglione, 1796 - Anghiari, St Georges, 1797 - Corte, 1798 - Catch of Malta, Pyramids, Aboukir, 1798 - Nazareth-Loubé, Mount-Thabor, St Jean d' Acre, 1799 - Héliopolis, 1800 - Dantzig, 1807 - Wagram, 1809 - Busaco, 1810 - Polotsk, Bérésina, 1812 - Dreste, Leipniz, Hanau, 1813 - St-Dizier, Brienne, Montereau, 1814 - Waterloo, 1815 - Barcelona, 1823 - Antwerp, 1832 - Alma, Inkermann, 1854 - Sebastopol, 1855 - Metz, 1870 - Army of the Loire, 1871 - Tunisia, the 1881-1886 - Belgium, 1914 - Meuse, the Marne, Theipval, Ovillers-la-Boisselle, 1914 - the Sum, Champagne, 1915 - Verdun - Berry-with-Vat, 1916 - Laffaux, Fayet-St-Quentin, 1917 - ItAvre , Way of the Ladies, Hartmannswillerkopf, Nap-Py , Passages of Aisne and the Meuse, 1918 - Lorraine, 1939-1940 - Belgium, 1940.

The Origins (1597)

1597 -

1597-1796

The first tests which were tried to establish the history of the regiments go back to 1716, then at 1784. Later, when the units of the royal Infantry ceased being regiments of gentlemen to take the name of a province, started to appear the “historical Tests of Mister de Roussel” about 1765. Convention, by its circular of 22 Nivôse An II (January 11th, 1794), gave orders so that were established: “of the exact and faithful detailed notes of all the features and heroic actions whose memory deserves to be preserved… the names of the citizens who will have been distinguished in a bright way, the nature of the acts of bravery and heroism which they will have made. The Committee of State education in charge of the drafting of annals of good citizenship and the virtue, according to the wish of national Convention, will make, by its work, that the names of the heroes and the brave men defenders of freedom will be engraved by the hands of the grateful Fatherland and will become the object of the most moved back veneration…”

The succession of the wars of the Revolution and the Empire did not allow that one was delayed with such a work; in addition, the dismissal of the Army, in 1815, seemed to break any bond between the regiments which disappeared and those which one organized under different conditions, and it is only on April 18th, 1839 that King Louis-Philippe made address, with F continuation of the report/ratio of the general of Cubières, the order to have to reconstitute the history of all the regiments since 1558, time to which started to constitute the French infantry regularly.

In 1521, the need in which was François 1st to hold head with the enemy on all the borders, made take a remarkable step with the military organization of the kingdom. It divided its troops in four armies: In North, bands of Picardy and Champagne, in the south, bands of Piedmont and Navarre, and it is of these bands that we see releasing ourselves in 1569, the first four old regiments of France: Picardy, Champagne, Piedmont and Navarre. At the same time, the disorders of the civil wars gave birth to an incredible number of regiments from new lifting. Reformed, political catholics and members of a league, all the men whom some birth or some merit recommended, obtained commissions of mestres of camp, and drew up regiments which did not last that as much as their chiefs were in credit or finance and that their party obtained successes. The first case especially ariseeed favorable for François de Bonne, duke of Lesdiguières, which, of simple archer in 1562, had become by its talents one of the chiefs of the party calvinist. Having succeeded Montbrùn in the command of Reformed the Dauphine one in 1575, it raised to its expenses in this province, in 1590, two companies of one hundred men carrying the title of Guards to foot of Lesdiguières, and a regiment of infantry which was known under the name of Régiment of Good With the head of its Guards and its Regiment, Lesdiguières thus began on April 15th, 1591, with the combat of Esparron and demolished the duke of Savoy, and at the beginning of 1597, the Guards with foot of Lesdiguières and the Regiment of Good, melted in only one body, entered the royal Infantry under the orders of the Marquis de Créqui, son-in-law of Lesdiguières, created Mestre of camp by commission of August 16th.

It is with this body, that we now will follow in its transformations, that it is necessary to make go up the origin of 19th. Formed in Grenoble, where it took its winter quarters in the month of January 1597, Créqui had 2.000 men under the weapons, divided into 20 companies, of which each one had a flag or teaches of ordinance of different colors according to the body. The sign of Créqui was violet and dawn, crossed by a white cross; A white tie decorated the lance of this flag whose colors remained those of the regiment until 1791, and only the colonelle company had the white flag, which was even given to him only after one certain number of years of service. Créqui had it only in 1635. Like all the troops of this time, Créqui did not have a uniform, each one got dressed with its liking, and one provided to the soldiers only the armament and part of the large equipment. Under the command of the duke of Créqui, the regiment took a glorious share in the countryside against the duke of Savoy, which ensured France the possession of the Bresse, Bugey and Gex; then after the treaty of Lyon, when the duke of Créqui became ordering French Guards, the regiment became the property of his/her son, the count de Canaples, which took the name of count de Sault, in 1611, and that of duke of Lesdiguières, in 1636.

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Old Mode

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

1815 to 1848

1815 : Hundred days. 19th enters the 1st Body Drouet d' Erion, Division Donzelot, brigade Aulard.Deux battalions with the manpower of 1055 men under the orders of colonel Trupel leave Douai on June 10th. Handing-over of the eagles with Valencians 12. Passage of Sambre the 15. Southern bivouac of Mount-St-Jean, 17 and Battle of Waterloo 18. Reprocess of Charleroi, Solre on Sambre, Laon, Compiegne, Senlis, Paris, St-Maixent. Dismissal of the regiment with Ribérac (Batch), 16 September 24th, 1815, in accordance with the Ordinance of July 15th ordering the dissolution of all the regiments of the Empire replaced by Departmental Legions. The remains of the regiment contribute to form at Gap the Legion of Hautes-Alpes.

Second Empire

1870 to 1914

1870 : July 15th: Declaration of war in Germany. The regiment leaves Paris with the manpower of 1642 men in 3 battalions for the Army of Metz, 3rd Bazaine Body, Division Castagny, Brigade Nayral. With the camp under Metz. Battle of Borny (August 14th). Capitulation of Metz on October 28th. Colonel de Launay, passed in the Imperial Guard is replaced by colonel Bréard.
the 21 septembe, the deposit transferred from Alençon in Rennes is directed on Laval on October 7th when is formed the Battalion of walk of 19th directed on the 2nd Armée with the Loire. Camp of Yvré-L' Evèque.

1871 : While the Battalion of walk of the 19th participle to the operations of the Army of the Loire around Mans, the deposit leaves Laval for Landerneau on January 17th, then for Brest March 15th and 18th when the 22 Battalion of walk arrives.

First World War

The regiment, quartered with Brest is ordered in 1914 by colonel Chapès. It is integrated into the 22 {{E}} Division of Infantry, general Pambet, 11 {{E}} body, general Eydoux.

Principal combat: Maissin, in the Belgian Luxembourg (August 22nd, 1914 - only victory of the {{IVe}} armed, gave its name to a place of Brest), the Marne (from September 8th to 13rd).

Engaged then in the Champagne offensive (Tahure, September 25th, 1915), then with the way of the Ladies, Mesnil-les-Hurlus (starting from April 17th, 1917).

The regiment is touched by mutinies in May 1917. It is dissolved in 1920.

The memory of the 19th Regiment of Infantry is present everywhere in the commune of Maissin.

Inter-war period

Second world war

1939 : The Regiment is reconstituted on September 2nd with Landerneau. The regiment assembled on line in the sector of Waldweistroff in the area of Thionville, on December 25th, remains there until at the end of February. It is then directed on the Ardennes then in the sector of Givet from March 15th to May 10th. With this date, offensive German in Belgium. The regiment crosses the border and discusses 8 kilometers of face between Bac of the Prince and the Loop of Waulsort and receives, on May 14th, the enemy shock under worst conditions of defense. Reprocess by Couvin towards the Forest of St-Michel. The 19th R.I is completely destroyed.

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

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