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Royal-La Marine was a infantry regiment of Kingdom of France, established in 1669. It was involved in the events later on known as Day of the Tiles, which took place in Grenoble on June 7th, 1788.

History

• December 20th, 1669 : creation of Royal-La Marin regiment.
• 1671 : marching with the French Army
• January 1st, 1791 : renamed "60th Infantry Regiment" (French: « 60e régiment d'infanterie de ligne »)
• 1769 : the 1st battalion was reformed by incorporation into the 20th demi-brigade of line infantry.
• March 21, 1797 : reformed, the 2st battalion was incorporated into the 23 demi-brigade of line infantry and the regiment cease to exist

Equipment

Flags

Royal-La Marine Regiment had three flags: one "blanc Colonel" (white cross with golden fleur-de-lis), and two "drapeaux d'Ordonnance" (blue and auroras)

• Drapeau d’Ordonnance
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  Flag from 1669 to 1791

Uniforms

• Uniforms
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  Royal-La Marine Regiment from 1720 to 1734
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  Royal-La Marine Regiment from 1734 to 1757
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  Grenadier at Royal-La Marine Regiment from 1762 to 1776

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  Royal-La Marine Regiment from 1776 to 1779
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  Royal-La Marine Regiment from 1779 to 1791
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  Royal-La Marine Regiment from 1791 to 1797

Colonels and Mestres de camp

• December 24th, 1669 : Henri Charles de Beaumanoir, marquis of Lavardin

1672 : N., comte de Clere

• November 1st, 1674 : Antoine de Pas, marquis of Feuquières
• August 4th, 1676 : Louis-Fauste de Brichanteau, marquis of Nangis, brigadier since April, 26 1689, † 22 août 1690
• September 3rd 1690 : Louis Armand de Brichanteau, marquis of Nangis, brigadier le since October 26th, 1704, maréchal de camp since June 19th, 1708, lieutenant général since March 8th, 1718, maréchal de France since February 11, 1741, † October 8th, 1742
• September 12th, 1699 : Charles d’Angennes de Poigny, count of Angennes de Poigny, brigadier since June 19th, 1708, † September 11th, 1709
• October 1st, 1709 : Louis Desmarets de Maillebois, baron of Châteauneuf, brigadier since February 1st, 1719
• January 10th, 1727 : Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis, then duke of Antin, brigadier since August 1st, 1734, maréchal de camp since February 10th, 1743, † December 9th, 1743
• March 10, 1734 : Louis de Durfort Duras, knight, then count, then duke of Lorges, brigadier since February 20th, 1743, maréchal de camp since June 1st, 1745, lieutenant général since May 10th, 1748, † December 10th, 1775
• May 26th, 1745 : Joachim de Dreux, knight, then marquis of Dreux, brigadier since 1745, Maréchal de camp since 1748, lieutenant général since December 17th, 1759
• February 1st, 1749 : Louis-Marie-François-Gaston de Lévis, marquis of Mirepoix, brigadier since July 13th, 1756
• July 28th, 1759 : Louis-Marie de Chapelle, count of Jumilhac
• December 1st, 1762 : Charles-Emmanuel, knight of Saint-Mauris
• June 22nd, 1767 : Philippe-Mathieu-Marie, count of Lons
• January 1st, 1784 : Agricole-Marie de Merle, marquis of Ambert
• July 25th, 1791 : Marie-Joseph-Gabriel-Apollinaire Morard d’Arcès
• November 23th, 1791 : Henri-François Morille de Boulard.

Campaigns and battles

On December 20th, 1669, Jean-Baptiste Colbert published an ordonnance, which allowed the creation of two regiments. They are named "Royal-La Marine" and "Amiral".

Royal-La Marine regiment is matched with the Flotte du Ponant.

The Royal Navy has a lack of marine officiers. On December 26th, 1669, a "Garde de Monsieur l'Amiral" (also named "Garde de Monsieur le comte de Vermandois") is created to restore a group of marine officers.

The only service at sea for these regiments was brief. In August 1670, they board in Duquesne to go to the Canaries Islands and Green Cape, and were back in Brest on March 11, 1671.

On August 13th 1704, during Second Battle of Höchstädt, Royal-La Marine fait partie of Ferdinand de Marsin's army reserve force (which supported the French-Bavarian army).

On June 27th, 1743, Royal-La Marine took part in the Battle of Dettingen. The next year, it took part in the sieges of Menin, Ypres and Furnes, before joining Maurice de Saxe's army in Courtai.

Between 1779 and 1782, the regiment took part in military operations in the Antilles.

Famous people who were in the Regiment

• Joseph Claude Vincent de Kermoysan, French knight, was Captain of the Regiment between 1740 and 1750.
• In 1780, Amateur-Jérôme Le Bras des Forges de Boishardy, son of a musketeer, entered the Regiment, where he stayed twelve years.
• In the same year, Charles-Jean Bernadotte, future Marshal of France and then King of Sweden, began his military career by entering the Regiment as a soldier at the age of 17. In 1789, he became sergeant.

See also

Further reading

• Jean Boudriot et Michel Pétard, « Marine Royale - XVII et XVIIIème siècles », Éditions Ancre
• Chronologie historique-militaire, par M. Pinard, tomes 3, 5 et 7, Paris 1761, 1762 et 1764