Mestre de camp or Maître de camp (French pronunciation: [mɛːtʁə də kɑ̃]; "camp-master") was a military rank in the Ancien Régime of France, equivalent...

the civil war and on foreign service and, buying the commission of mestre de camp in 1655, he went on to serve under Turenne in Flanders. He served there...

once again maréchal de camp, but was changed back again to brigade general after the French Revolution of 1848. Mestre de camp Colby, Frank Moore; Talcott...

Mémoires de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, lieutenant-général des armées du roi, Mestre de camp général de la cavalerie légère [Memories of Roger de Rabutin...

had three squadrons and 12 companies. The regimental staff included a mestre de camp and a lieutenant-colonel with company and a major without a company...

followers, being only mestre de camp-lieutenant, corresponding afterwards to lieutenant colonel. 1673: Gabriel de Monchy 1675: Mestre de Camp de Brizay, Viscount...

single regiment or demi-brigade would be called a 'mestre de camp' or, after the Revolution, a 'chef de brigade'.[citation needed] By the late 19th century...

Teresa Mestre was born on 22 March 1956 in Marianao, Havana, Cuba, to José Antonio Mestre y Álvarez (1926–1993) and wife María Teresa Batista y Falla de Mestre...

bloody Battle of Seneffe. A year later he was promoted on the field to mestre de camp (colonel) of a cavalry regiment. The next promotion would take time...

Aguilar cavalry regiment in 1647. He raised a regiment and became a mestre de camp in 1654. A remarkable soldier, Calvo took part in all the campaigns...

d'Hostun de la Baume, Duc de Tallard, Marshal of France Lieutenant General Philippe, Marquis de Clérambault Maréchal de Camp, the Marquis de Blansac Marquis...

Regiment of Africa (7e Régiment de chasseurs d'Afrique (7e RCA ) 2003: Disbanded on June 30, 2003. 1871–1873: Camp de Graves, Abbeville, Amiens 1873–1885:...

January 10, 1727 : Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis, then duke of Antin, brigadier since August 1, 1734, maréchal de camp since February 10, 1743...

Ottaviano Menni was an Italian mathematician and mestre de camp who lived between the 17th and 18th centuries. Amussis munitoria (in Latin). Naples: Giovanni...

became colonel of an infantry regiment named after him and in 1693 mestre de camp of a cavalry regiment. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he...

Seiglières-Belleforière, marquis de Soyecourt July 19, 1690 : Armand de Béthune, marquis de Charost, brigadier on March 30, 1693, maréchal de camp on January 3, 1696...

became a colonel of the Brittany cavalry regiment. In 1783 he became mestre de camp in the 3rd regiment of hussars. On 30 March 1789 he was elected as a...

at Rákóczi's court-in-exile in Constantinople, Bercheny was promoted mestre de camp (colonel) in the Rattky Regiment in 1719. Around 1720, Bercheny proposed...

of Mailly, Brigadier on 25 April 1691, mestre de camp général of dragons on April 29, 1692, maréchal de camp on March 30, 1693, † April 6, 1699 (aged...

the Holy Roman Empire. Enghien appointed the Chevalier de Tavannes as the commander (mestre de camp) of the regiment. It immediately was sent to serve in...

mai 1730 à Château-Gontier), Mestre de camp de dragons, Brigadier, Maréchal de camp, Chevalier de Saint-Louis, et Syndic de la Compagnie française des Indes...

a cornet. In 1749, he became Colonel in the Grenadier Regiment and mestre de camp of the Royal Foreign Cavalry Regiment in 1756, which he commanded at...

Regiment), the Régiment de Châteauvieux (one of the twelve regiments of Swiss mercenaries in the French infantry) and the Mestre-de-camp cavalry. The soldiers'...

000 inhabitants were evacuated by the marquis de Mouis and his Lorrainian garrison. Becoming mestre de camp (equivalent to the modern rank of colonel),...

Sous-lieutenant in the cavalry Régiment de Chartres, in 1771 he was seconded to the Régiment de Bourgogne, promoted 1776 as Mestre-de-camp lieutenant en second (Major)...

in 1657. It was an intermediate between the rank of Mestre de camp and that of Maréchal de camp. The rank was first created in the cavalry at the instigation...

of Horse in the royal Swedish Army, one of the Lords of the Realm, aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War, diplomat and statesman...

Tonnelier de Breteuil. He was from the old Neapolitan house of Gallucci or Galluccio. He entered the French Army in 1712 and had risen to 'Mestre-de-Camp' by...

He was the son of Claude de Villars, mestre de camp and gentleman of the King's bedchamber, and of his wife Charlotte Louvet de Nogaret-Calvisson, and grandson...

that unit (replacing a regiment) and that rank (replacing the rank of mestre de camp) were created at the same time, in 1793. The two designations disappeared...