Army of the emigrants

During the French revolution, the armed with the emigrants is the whole of the troops raised by the royalist French out of France, in order to reconquer, using the united troops and of the royalist armies of the interior (catholic and royal Armée in the Vendée, Chouans, with Lyon and Toulon), France and to restore the Ancien Mode there.

It is formed:

of noble volunteers, resulting from the old royal army or not, emigrated out of France;
of troops raised by these noble by means of subsidies of European monarchies, or on their own sums of money;
of units of the French Army turned over, like the 4th regiment of hussards.

List armies

Army of Cop

Regiment of Mortemart

Army of the Princes

This army is formed in 1792 in Germany, from Trier, and is ordered by the marshals of Broglie and of Castries, under the aegis of the brothers of Louis XVI: the count de Provence and the duke of Artois. Strong of 10.000 men, it returns to France to the sides of the army of Brunswick and is laid off on November 24th, 1792, after the French victory with Valmy two months earlier.

Army of Bourbon

Other units

Legion of the Pyrenees

Creation: 1794
Other names: in May, royal Legion of the Pyrenees
Creative: Marquis of Saint-Simon
Commander: Effective marquis of Saint-Simon
: 600 infantrymen and a squadron of hussards
Theater of operations: Yrénées-Atlantiques
Engagements: Saint-Etienne-of-Baïgorry (April 26th, 1794), strong losses (including 17 prisoners guillotines); mountains of Arquinzun (July 10th), strong losses (30 to 50% of manpower); Port-Bidassoa (July 24th), strong losses by covering the Spanish retirement (including 50 prisoners); Sit of Pampelune (November).
Operates within the Spanish Armée with Navarre
Envoyée to the back in 1795, then integrated in the regiment of Bourbon

Legion of Panetier

Creation: 1793
Other names: Legion of the Queen ( of Spain ) Creative in June 1794
: count de Panetier (in January 1794 death)
Commander: count de Panetier, then the general of Santa-Clara
Effective: 400 men; supplemented in June 94 by companies of Royal-Provence survivors of the Head office of Toulon and Royal Roussillon;
Theater of operations: The Eastern Pyrenees
Engagements: Defense of Port-Vendres (May 1794), evacuated by sea (to prevent that they are delivered and guillotines); Zamora on January 5th, 1796
Operates within the Spanish Armée
Intégrée in the regiment with Bourbon

Legion of Vallespir

Creation: 1793
Other names: Battalion of the border about Creative May 1793
: Spanish general Ricardos: Spanish soldiers to emigrated French officers
Commander provides:
Effective:
Theater of operations: defense of Vallespir, then Roussillon
Engagements:
Operates within the Spanish Armée
Nombreuses desertions towards the legion from Panetier Intégré within the regiment of Bourbon

Royal Roussillon

Creation: January 1794 with Barcelona with emigrants, prisoners, deserters
Other names:
Creative: General Ricardos
Commander:
Effective: 200 in June 94 (including 129 massacred by crowd because they had fun in their barracks one day of procession);
Theater of operations:
Engagements: never committed
Versed in the legion of Panetier (becoming the legion of the Queen at this time)

Regiment of Bourbon

Creation: 1796 starting from the legion of the Queen (ex-legion of Panetier), of the Battalion of the border, and the royal legion of the Pyrenees
Other names: integrated into the Spanish army, it carries the n°47, then the n°37
Créateur: Marquis of Saint-Simon
Commander: Effective marquis of Saint-Simon
: 1600 men (1808)
Theater of operations: garrison with Ciudad Rodrigo (1797) then with Majorque
Engagements: Sit of Gérone (falls on December 9th, 1808, loss of 300 prisoners; Rozas (1808)
Opère within the Spanish Armée
Y remains in 1814; it is formed foreign soldiers and Wallonnes guards, with the n°41, then becomes in 1860 the 53 {{E}} regiment of infantry, said El Emigrado .

Quotation

“They were paid our enemies, that is true, but they were it or would have owed the being for the cause of their King. France gave death to their action and of the tears to their courage. Any devotion is heroic. ”

Napoleon

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