A brigade is a military unit. It is ordered by a Brigadier (the United Kingdom, Suisse, the United States) or by a Brigadier general (France).

Since 1999 and the professionalisation of the armies, the brigade is the greatest organic unit of the French Army, strong of approximately 7  000 with 8  000 men. Ex: the old 11th division parachutist, amputated by several regiments, today 11th brigade parachutist, which one takes elements to create tactical groupings meeting exactly the needs for each crisis.

The brigade is regarded as the highest military unit including/understanding only one weapon: Brigade of infantry, cavalry… The brigades were often used as administrative framework. For example, today the brigade is a unit of time of peace in which one takes battalions to constitute the units deployed at the time of external operations.

The term of brigade can also indicate:

• a unit of gendarmerie or police force (see also the Brigades of the Tiger. );
• by extension, the whole of the personnel in Kitchen which takes part in the development of the dishes;
• in its significance scoute, in Swiss, a regrouping of scouts group.

Brigade , a marine term

The dictionaries of navy give brigade the direction of “instrument of use to XIVe century, which indicated an instrument whose form is not known for us. We think that it had some analogy with the blunder, and that it was a hook of a particular species, fixed with a pole” (Auguste Jal, nautical Glossaire ). A text of 1594, cité by Jal, attests this use. The same author notes as no general dictionary since XVIe century proposes this meaning.

Bonnefoux and Willaumez give brigade like synonym (not very used) of blunder . military Brigade and brigade marinades are perhaps in fact of different origin. In the marine, sergeant was in the beginning the “title of the first of the sailors of a boat; it is posted on before defending the boardings with the brigade , from where it draws its name” (Willaumez, Dictionnaire of the navy ). The Trésor of the French language attests this use. In addition, sergeant indicates the stick with which the manager of a theater strikes the three blows. This use returns obviously to the navy). Addition with the Dictionary of the words born of the sea , pol. Corvez, editions of the Fish-wagon, 2007

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