Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux

Lineage

• March 13, 1638 : creation of Régiment des Vaisseaux
• February 3, 1640 : Régiment des Vaisseaux-Richelieu
• March 10, 1644: Régiment des Vaisseaux-Mazarin
• June 25, 1650 : Régiment des Vaisseaux-Candale
• April 11, 1658: Régiment des Vaisseaux-Mazarin
• March 15, 1661: Régiment des Vaisseaux-Provence
• September 20, 1669 : designated again as Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux
• January 1, 1791 : designated as 43rd Line Infantry Regiment
• April 16, 1794 : the 1st battalion was reformed by incorporation to the 85th Battle Demi-Brigade during the formation of the demi-brigade.
• 1794 : reformation, the 2nd battalion being incorporated to the 86th Battle Demi-Brigade during the formation of the demi-brigade.

  Equipment

Regimental Colors

Uniform

History

Colonels and mestres de camp

• March 13, 1638: Henri d’Escoubleau de Sourdis, † 18 June 1645
• February 3, 1640: Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu, † 4 December 1642
• March 10, 1644: Jules Cardinal Mazarin, † 9 March 1661
• June 25, 1650:, Duke of Candale, † 1658
• March 15, 1661: Louis, Duke of Vendôme, Duke of MercÅ“ur then Duke of Vendôme in 1665, became commander of the on April 8, 1652 and commander of the on April 26, 1656, † August 6, 1669
• September 20, 1667: Alexandre Le Bret
• March 29, 1679:, Marquis de Gandelus, born November 19, 1660, Brigadier on August 27, 1688, † April 18, 1689
• April 24, 1689: Louis, Count 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
• April 29, 1692: René, Marquis de
• June 16, 1699: Armée de Montvalat, Chevalier d’Entragues
• March 1, 1702: Isaac Charles de La Rochefoucaud, Count of Montendre, brigadier on January 29, 1702, † August 15, 1702
• August 27, 1702: Louis de Régnier, Marquis de Guerchy, baptized on May 18, 1663, Brigadier on January 29, 1702, Maréchal de camp on October 26, 1704, Lieutenant-général of the Armies of the King on March 29, 1710, † February 13, 1748
• June 14, 1705: Thomas Le Gendre de Collandre, Brigadier on March 29, 1710, Maréchal de camp on February 1, 1719, † May 1, 1738
• March 6, 1719: Pierre Aimé de Guiffrey, Chevalier then Count of Marcieu, Brigadier of infantry on April 3, 1721, Maréchal de camp on August 1, 1734, Lieutenant-general of the Armies of the King on February 20, 1743
• November 25, 1734: Claude Louis François de Régnier, Count of Guerchy, born August 1, 1715, Brigadier on February 20, 1743, Maréchal de camp on June 1, 1745, Lieutenant-general of the Armies of the King on March 10, 1748
• May 26, 1745: Jean-Baptiste Charles Hubert d’Esparbès de Lussan, Chevalier d’Aubeterre
• February 21, 1746: Louis Henri d’Esparbès de Lussan, Count of Aubeterre-La-Serre
• August 7, 1747: François Emery de Durfort, Count of Civrac, Brigadier on May 1758, declared maréchal de camp on November 1761 while brevetted on February 20
• November 30, 1761: Anne Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou, born October 17, 1739, † December 30, 1798
• July 28, 1773: Charles Pierre Hyacinthe, Count of Ossun
• March 10, 1788:, Marquis de Gouvernet
• October 21, 1791: Joseph Marie de Kerkaradec
• May 16, 1792: Anselme de Sicard
• September 4, 1792: François Vergès

  Campaign and battles

• 1638: baptism of fire on August 22 during the naval battle of Gattari, then during the siege of the battle of Fontarrabie.
• June 8, 1640 : naval combat against the fleet of Philip IV of Spain.
• 1641 : apprehension of Elne
• 1701 : War of the Spanish Succession : campaign in Italy : Battle of Chiari, Battle of Cremona
• 1710 to 1712 : War of the Spanish Succession in Flanders : Battle of Denain, siege of Le Quesnoy
• 1713 : War of the Spanish Succession in Germany : battle of Landau in der Pfalz

  43rd Line Infantry Regiment