102nd Infantry Regiment (France)

102nd Infantry Regiment, or 102e Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne 1677- France French Army Regiment of Infantry Infantry of the Line . Ex serviture libertas Valmy 1792Zurich 1799Wagram 1809Battle of Taku Forts (1860)L'Ourcq 1914Reims 1918Somme-Py 1918 Saint-Maurice Décoré de la Croix de guerre 1914-1918 avec deux citations à l'ordre de l'armée Il a le droit au port de la fourragère aux couleurs de ruban de la croix de guerre 1914-1918. The 102nd Infantry Regiment (fr 102e Régiment d'Infanterie, 102e RI) was an infantry regiment of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Reconstituted several times in the 19th century, it took part in the Second Opium War in China, then in the First and Second World Wars, being disbanded in 1940. French Royal Army Its ancestor regiments were the Infantry Regiment of the Line Le Dauphin (Nr. 29) and Royal-Deux Ponts (Nr 99). The regiment was raised in 1667 by Michel De Fisicat, as Le Dauphin (nr. 29) and on 26 April 1775 split into two regiments. The 1st and 3rd battalions retained the old title and number and the 2nd and rthJuly 2013 What is 'rth' supposed to be? battalions became the new infantry regiment Perche (Nr 30).Digby Smith, Napoleon's Regiments: Battle histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815, London: Greenhill, 2000, 1-85367-413-3, p. 149. The Revolutionary Wars as Infantry Regiment of the Line Perche (Nr 30) Campaigns thumb|Flag of the regiment Initially, the regiment served in the Army of the Center, at Metz. Following the Battle of Valmy on 20 September 1792, the regiment was assigned to the Army of the Ardennes. In 1793, the regiment saw action in the Meuse campaign. In 1794, it underwent its first amalgamation (17 May), under the Levée en Masse, and became the 2nd battalion 59th Demi-Brigade of Battle, with the 4th battalion, Volunteers of Paris, also called 'l'Oratoire and the 7th battalion of the Rhône-et-Loire, in the Army of the Moselle.Smith, p. 149. Colonels of the Revolutionary Period Henri François Thibaut de La Carte, Comte de La Ferté-Sennectère (10 March 1788) Olivier Victor de Baudre (21 October 1791) Germain Félix Tennet de Laubadère (26 October 1792) Alexandre Alexis Dumas (8 March 1793) Jean Baptiste Brunet (25 germinal an IV) In 1797, the regiment was part of the Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse. In 1798, as part of the Army of Germany and the Army of Mayence (Mainz), the Regiment saw action in the Rhineland. In 1799, as part of the Army of Mayence, it was transferred to the Army of the Danube, under the general command of Jean-Baptiste Jourdan; the regiment was part of the I Division, under the immediate command of Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino, and participated in action at the Battle of Ostrach (20–21 March 1799), and the Battle of Stockach, 25–26 March 25–26, 1799. On 25 September 1799, the regiment fought at the Battle of Zurich. Battle of Caldiero The Napoleonic Wars War Of The Third Coalition Battle of Austerlitz War of the Fourth Coalition Battle of Halle Battle of Lübeck Battle of Mohrungen Battle of Friedland Battle of Schleiz The Peninsular war Dos de Mayo Uprising Battle of Zornoza Battle of Valmaseda Battle of Espinosa Battle of Talavera Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos Battle of Maya Occupation of Pamplona, Battle of the Bidassoa (1813), Spelleto, and Battle of Bayonne War of the Fifth Coalition Battle of Essling Battle of Wagram War of the Sixth Coalition Siege of Danzig, Wurschen, Gieshubel, Battle of Dresden, Grieffenberg, Elsen, Battle of Dohna, Battle of Bautzen Siege of Genoa (1814) 2 battalions presenthttp://frederic.berjaud.free.fr/102edeligne/102e_de_ligne.htm le 102e Régiment d'infanterie de ligne de 1796 à 1815 Berjaud Fréderic 2009 mon site consacré aux Soldats de la Grande Armée fr 10 October 2022 War of the Seventh Coalition Battle of Lille Battle of Courtrai Greek War of Independence The Morea expedition 1828 : Expédition de Morée Sources Citations and notes Bibliography Historique du 102ème régiment d'infanterie 1914-1918 Librairie Chapelot Paris 1920 CITEREFHistorique du 102e RI 1920 fr Université Paris Nanterre https://argonnaute.parisnanterre.fr/medias/customer_3/archives/histo_rgt2_pdf/BDIC_O_007864.pdf BDIC_O_007864 Lacolle Noël Histoire du 102e régiment d'infanterie 1792-1896 Imprimerie Poirier-Bealu Mayenne 1896 Fr FRBNF34076599 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8558101 Bibliothèque nationale de France Smith Digby Napoleon's Regiments: Battle histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815 Greenhill London 2000 978-1-85-367413-6 Category:Regiments of France in the French Revolutionary Wars Category:Regiments of the First French Empire Category:Infantry regiments of France Category:Military units and formations established in 1791 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1940