7th regiment of infantry

The 7th Régiment of Infanterie of line (or 7th IH) is a regiment made up under the Ancien Mode under the name of Champagne regiment. It was distinguished at the time of the campaigns of the Revolution and the Empire to the battles of Fleurus (1794) and Bautzen (1813).

Creation and various denominations

  • 1569 : Formation of a Champagne regiment made up of four companies of guards of the king

  • 1585: Régiment of Champagne
  • 1791 becomes the : 7th Regiment of Infantry
  • 1796: 7th Half-Brigade of Infantry of Line , consisted of the following units:
    • 128e half-brigade of battle (2nd battalion of the 68 {{E}} Regiment of Infantry, 3rd battalion of volunteers of the the Eure and 6th battalion of the Oise)
    • 1st battalion of the 49 {{E}} Regiment of Infantry
    • 2nd battalion of the 83 {{E}} Regiment of Infantry
    • 3rd, 7th and 9th battalions of volunteers of Paris
    • 7th battalion of volunteers of the Yonne
    • 16th battalion of Federate the
  • 1803: 7th Regiment of Infantry of Line
  • 1815:
    • Restoration: becomes 7 E Régiment of Infantry of Line-Orleans
    • Hundred Days: becomes again 7th Regiment of Infantry of Line
    • 2 Restoration: Bachelor
  • 1914: To the mobilization, it gives rise to the 207 {{E}} Régiment of Infantry

Colonel S Chief of brigade

  • 1791 : Jean Anne of Barthe of Giscard - Colonel
  • 1792: Louis Etienne Auron de Rebourguil - Colonel
  • 1792: Claude Souchon de Chanron - Colonel
  • 1793: Jean-Joseph Lamy de Boisconteau - Chief of Brigade (*)
  • 1795: Arnouilh spirit (?) - Chief of Brigade
  • 1804: Pierre Gabriel Ausenac - Colonel (*)
  • 1812: Louis Wolf Etienne Martin Bougault - Colonel
  • 1814: Barthelemy Lelong - Colonel
  • 1814: Charles Angélique François Huchet of Bedoyère - Colonel
  • 1815: Joseph Michel Boissin - Colonel

(*) Officer who became thereafter Brigadier general.

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 7th IH of line

Old Mode

Louis XIV

Louis XV

In 1779, the regiment is in Martinique to take part in the attack of the islands of Saint-Vincent and the Grenade, British possessions. It is then sent to the help of the American insurrectionists, in difficulty vis-a-vis the English. It takes part in the unfruitful head office of Savannah, then re-embarks for Martinique from where it takes part in various operations on Saint-Domingue, St Lucia, until the battle of the Holy ones, after which it joined Bordeaux in 1783.

Revolution and Empire

Colonels killed or wounded by ordering the regiment for this period

  • Colonel Bougault: wounded on September 12th, 1813

Officers wounded or killed while being used for 7th between 1808 and 1814:

  • killed Officers: 19
  • dead Officers their wounds: 18
  • wounded officers: 122
Bautzen

Of 1815 with 1848

Second Empire

The regiment takes part in the Expédition of Mexico in the 1st brigade (Général Brincourt) within the 2 {{of}} division (general of Castagny) and is stationed in the State of Durango until November 13rd, 1866. Passing by Queretaro the regiment joined Mexico City (January 15th, 1867 - February 5th, 1867). It covers the back of the French withdrawal and is one of the last embarked units (part on the Castiglione , left on the Souverain ).

Of 1871 with 1914

First World War

With the 131 {{E}} division of infantry of July 1915 in November 1918

1914

1915

1916

1917

  • the Marne: High mount, the Helmet, Mount Perthois ( April - May)

1918

Inter-war period

Second world war

Reconstituted in 1939, the regiment advances in Belgium after the German offensive of May 10th, 1940, then is folded up on Lille and Dunkirk where it is taken with the trap like so many of other units of the French Army. The regiment is dissolved. It reappears formally in September 1944 starting from units of Resistance born in clandestinity in Bordeaux and its area. He in particular sees himself entrusting, in the Medoc, the protection of Bordeaux and the preparation of the resumption of the pocket of the Low register point, which falls only on April 20th, 1945. The regiment is again dissolved in June 1945.

Of 1945 at our days

The regiment is reconstituted in 1956 and is sent in Algeria until 1962. Dissolved and reconstituted once again, it is incorporated in the French Forces in Germany with Neustadt year der Weinstraße, in the Rhineland-Palatinat, where it is again dissolved in 1977.

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

These battles are registered on the flag of the regiment.

Currency

Value and discipline

The currency " I am Regiment of Champagne" was also used.

Decorations

The regiment receives the Military Cross 1914-1918 on March 3rd, 1919 on the Polygon of Vincennes.

It is quoted with the order of the 10th army on July 14th, 1918 and with the order of the 1st army on January 7th, 1919.

See too

Internal bonds

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

External bonds

  • Flags of the regiment under Napoleon

Sources and bibliography

  • Jean-Marie Déguignet, History of my life , ED. Historical year Young stag, 2000.
  • of 7th of line since its formation , SHAT, 4 M 7
  • Alexandre Adler, Historical of the Champagne Regiment, monograph covering the period of the 16th century up to 1956.

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