The name Régiment du Roi (Regiment of the King/King's Regiment) was used by several Royal French Army regiments throughout the period of the Kingdom of...
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having a régiment du Roi. It is not to be confused with the term régiment royal (meaning a regiment belonging to the king as opposed to régiments de gentilhomme...
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Fusiliers) 1646: The Régiment de Fusiliers à Cheval du Roi was renamed the Régiment du Roi – Cavalerie or, in English, King's Regiment (Cavalry) Uniform...
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the Régiment du Roi. He became captain in the same regiment. He passed the beginning of 1704 in Italy, and acceded to the command of the régiment d'Auvergne...
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Gardes du Corps du Roi (King's bodyguard) was the senior formation of the King of France's household cavalry within the maison militaire du roi de France...
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Nancy affair (redirect from Château-Vieux Regiment)
France comprised three regiments of what was still the Royal Army. These were the Régiment du Roi (King's Regiment), the Régiment de Châteauvieux (one of...
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Régiment de Commissaire Général Cavalerie Régiment Royal Étranger Cavalerie Régiment de Cuirassiers du Roi Régiment Royal Cravate Cavalerie Régiment Royal...
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lieutenant-colonel of the Toulouse Regiment. On 25 March 1693 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Régiment du Roi, the most prestigious colonelcy...
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he was a lieutenant in the Régiment du Roi infanterie which together with the Mestre-de-Camp Cavalry and the Swiss Régiment de Lullin de Chateauvieux comprised...
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Entering the régiment du Roi-Infanterie in May 1739, he became a lieutenant on 23 August 1742. In parallel, he was lieutenant du Roi (king's lieutenant)...
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King's Daughters (redirect from Filles du roi)
The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi, or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated...
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French military officer and a marshal of France. Laval entered the Régiment du Roi as a second lieutenant in 1694. During the Nine Years’ War he was present...
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commissioned into the French Royal Army as a Sous-lieutenant in the Régiment du Roi (King's Regiment), where he developed a close friendship with the Comte de Plies...
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Antonio was named lieutenant in the Régiment du Roi Infanterie. In 1684, he was named colonel of the regiment of Soissonois. During the Nine Years War...
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Régime (here, Régiment d'Auvergne) La Sarre Regiment (Régiment de la Sarre) King's Regiment (Régiment du Roi) Queen's Regiment (Régiment de la Reine) General...
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was appointed lieutenant réformé in the Régiment du Roi, on 15 August 1700 he was made Enseige in the Régiment des Gardes Françaises. He served in Flanders...
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François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (category Heads of the Bâtiments du Roi)
According to Cathal Nolan, he created the Régiment du Roi in 1663 and founded the Royal-Artillerie regiment in 1673. These innovations influenced military...
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Balbes de Berton de Crillon, duc de Mahon, who joined the Régiment du Roi (King's Regiment) in 1734, aged 16, as a lieutenant en second before being promoted...
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Régiment des Gardes françaises) were an elite infantry regiment of the French Royal Army. They formed a constituent part of the maison militaire du roi...
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militaire du roi de France, in English the military household of the king of France, was the military part of the French royal household or Maison du Roi under...
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Royal Scots Greys (redirect from 2nd (Royal North British) Regiment of Dragoons)
as part of Lord Hays' brigade of dragoons, the regiment captured the colours of the elite Régiment du Roi. Renamed the Royal North British Dragoons, their...
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regiments of the Maison militaire du roi de France (Royal Military House of France) created to serve on boats and in the colonies: all such regiments...
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Graimberg. He was born at Belleau Castle and became an officer in the régiment du Roi-Infanterie, then a lieutenant to the Marshals of France. On 13 May...
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Grenadier (section Grenadier regiments)
Martinet formed a grenadier company in the Régiment du Roi in 1667. By 1670 27 French infantry regiments were authorised to include elite companies trained...
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during the Hundred Years' War. Regiment of Auvergne. Regiment of Normandy. King's Regiment (Régiment du Roi). The pre-revolutionary regimental flags inspired...
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first Bourbon restauration in 1814 the regiment became Cuirassiers du Roi, but it was restored to 1er Régiment de Cuirassiers by Napoleon during the Hundred...
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foot and also Blenheim and Ramillies where the regiment took prisoners of the famous Régiment du Roi and, according to tradition, won the distinction...
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'Scots Greys' also picked their way across the stream and charged the Régiment du Roi within Autre-Eglise. "Our dragoons," wrote John Deane, "pushing into...
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Musketeers of the Guard (category Guards regiments of France)
militaire du roi de France), also known as the Musketeers of the Guard (French: Mousquetaires de la garde) or King's Musketeers (Mousquetaires du roi), were...
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Alexandre de Sève. He was Baron of Bouloire. He became a musketeer in the Régiment du Roi in 1698 and served in the Army of Flanders under Marshal Louis-François...
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