102nd Infantry Regiment (France)

102nd Infantry Regiment, or 102e Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne
Active	1677-
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	Regiment of Infantry
Role	Infantry of the Line
Garrison/HQ	.
Motto(s)	Ex serviture libertas
Anniversaries	Saint-Maurice
Decorations	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.
Battle honours	Valmy 1792 Zurich 1799 Wagram 1809 Fort du Pei-ho 1860 L'Ourcq 1914 Reims 1918 Somme-Py 1918

The 102nd Infantry Regiment (French: 102e Régiment d'Infanterie, 102e RI) was an infantry regiment of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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 rth battalions became the new Infantry Regiment Perche (Nr 30).^[1]

The Revolutionary Wars as Infantry Regiment of the Line Perche (Nr 30)

Campaigns

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Battle of Caldiero

The Napoleonic Wars

War of the Sixth Coalition

Siege of Danzig, Wurschen, Gieshubel,

Battle of Dresden, Grieffenberg, Elsen,

Battle of Dohna,

Battle of Bautzen

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

↑ Digby Smith, Napoleon's Regiments: Battle histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815, London: Greenhill, 2000, ISBN 1-85367-413-3, p. 149.
↑ Smith, p. 149.
↑ Smith, p. 149.

Bibliography

Smith, Digby. Napoleon's Regiments: Battle histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815, London: Greenhill, 2000, ISBN 1-85367-413-3

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