44e regiment of infantry of line

The 44e Régiment of Infantry of Line is a regiment French formed under the Ancien Mode.

During the war of 14-18 it was called As of Spade . (division of the ACES).

Having lost its specificity of regiment of infantry, today it became the body support of DGSE.

Creations and various denominations

  • 1642: Survey

  • 1645: Named Regiment Mazarin-Italian
  • 1651: Famous Regiment Anjou-Foreigner
  • 1660: Famous Regiment of Orléanais
  • 1791: Famous 44e Regiment of Infantry
  • 1793: Transformed into 44e Half-Brigade of Battle , starting from the following units:
    • 2nd battalion of the 22 {{E}} Régiment of Infantry
    • 2nd battalion of Volunteers of Corrèze
    • 5th battalion of Volunteers of the Rhone-and-Loire
  • 1796: tranformé in 44e Half-Brigade of Infantry of Line , starting from the following units:
    • 92e half-brigade of battle (It even formed starting from the following units: 2nd battalion of the 46 {{E}} Regiment of Infantry, 5th Battalion of Volunteers of the Haute-Saône and 2nd Battalion of Volunteers of Eure-et-Loir)
    • 2nd and 3rd battalions of the Deposit of the 44e Regiment of Infantry
  • 1803: Famous 44e Regiment of Infantry of Line
  • 1840: Famous 44e Regiment of Infantry
  • In 1815: integrated within the the 14th division of infantry of the 4th body of infantry
  • 1914: With the mobilization, it forms the 244 {{E}} Régiment of Infantry
  • 1914 - 1918: integrated within the 7 {{E}} Army corps, within the French I {{Re}} Armed, it thus formed part of the Division of the Aces

Colonels/chief-of-brigade

Revolution and Empire

  • 1791: Charles of Chateigneraie de Saint-Foix - Colonel
  • 1792: Jean-Charles Gerboult De Langrange - Colonel
  • 1793: Jean-Joseph Senior Of Felix - Colonel
  • 1794: Pencez (?) - Chief-of-Brigade
  • 1796: Joseph-Antoine-Marie-Michel Mainoni - Chief-of-Brigade (*)
  • of April 28th 1799 at July 31st 1799: François-Joseph Offenstein - Chief-of-Brigade (*)
  • 1799: Adrien-Joseph Saudeur - Chief-of-Brigade then Colonel in 1803 (*)
  • 1806: Jacques Mathurin Lafosse - Colonel (*)
  • 1811: Pierre-Elisabeth-Henri Griolet of Saint-Henry - Colonel
  • 1812: Jean-Dominique Paolini - Colonel

Killed or wounded colonels whereas they ordered 44e RIL:

  • Colonel Lafosse: Wounded on May 10th, 1807

Killed or wounded officers whereas they were used for 44e RIL during the period 1804 - 1815:

  • killed Officers: 40
  • Officers dead of the continuations of their wounds: 20
  • wounded Officers: 109

(*) Officers having reached thereafter the row of General of brigade

Restoration

  • In 1815: Jean-Dominique Paolini (?)
(*) Officers having reached thereafter the row of Brigadier general,
(**) Officers having reached thereafter the row of general of division.
(?) Evolution in the unknown army .

Battles

  • 1792: Valmy
  • 1793: Kaiserlautern
  • 1794: Fleurus
  • 1799: Maienfeld, Martinsbruck, Remus, Known, Zurich, Glarus, Klonthal, and Schwanden
  • 1800: Marengo
  • 1806: Iena and of Pultusk
  • the February 8th 1807: Eylau
* within the Binot Brigade in Desjardins Division of VIIe army corps ordered by the marshal Augereau
  • 1807: Ostrelenka, Dantzig, and Friedland
  • 1808: Saragossa and Lerins
  • 1809: Sit of Saragossa and Alcanitz
  • 1810: Sit of Tortose
  • 1811: Sanguessa and Valence
  • 1812: Smoliany, Galopinski, and Borisow
  • 1813: Yecla and Ordal
  • 1814: Barcelona
  • 1815: Ligny and Roquencourt

Feat of arms making particularly honors with the regiment

  • 1800 : Marengo
  • 1807: Eylau
  • 1808 : Saragossa

Fodder with the colors of the ribbon of the Military decoration decreed on November 4th, 1918

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