One of four dragoon regiments raised in 1673, this regiment was recruited in Franche-Comté, of ten companies. For nearly a century of its existence it was closely associated with the Beauffremont family (the name is rendered in several different forms, double ff, single f etc.) Ranked 8th among the dragoons in 1756.
The motto was that of the house of Beaffremont.
Service:
1674: Reconquering places in Franche-Comté from the Spanish and then cantoned there
1675: On the Meuse in the sieges of Dinant, Huy and Limburg
1676: Army of Flanders and at the sieges of Condé, Bouchain and Aire
1677: Sieges of Valenciennes and Cambrai
1678: Capture of Gand and Ypres; battle of Saint Denis
1681-1683: Camp de la Sarre
1681: Capture of Strasbourg
1684: Helped cover the siege of Luxembourg
1685: Became Grammont Dragoons
1688: Army of the Rhine; capture of Philipsbourg, Mannheim and Frankenthal.
1689: Combat of Walcourt; relief of Mayence
1692: Flanders; siege of Namur and battle of Steenkirchen
1693: On the Moselle
1694: Flanders
1695: Defence of Namur
1696: Became Payssac Dragoons
1698: Camp of Compiègne
1699: Became Beauffremont again
1703: Bavaria; siege of Kehl, attack on the lines of Stolhofen, the entrenchments of the valley of Hornberg, combat of Munderkirchen, first battle of Hochstedt, capture of Kempten and Augsburg
1704: Combat of Schellenberg (where the mestre de camp was seriously wounded); second battle of Hochstedt (Blenheim)
1705: On the Piselle
1706: Alsace; actions at Drusenheim, Lauterburg and Isle of Marquisat.
1707-1708: On the Rhine
1709: Flanders; battle of Malplaquet
1710: Defence of Aire; Marquis de Listenois (a Beaufremont) killed in a sortie
Renamed Beauffremont November 1710
1712: Sieges of Douai and Quesnoy
1713: Siege of Fribourg
1714: Camp of Saône
1733: Army of the Rhine; capture of Kehl and Philipsburg; combats of Ettlingen and Klausen
1741: In garrison at Linz and defence of that place; after the capitulation obliged not to serve for one year; returned to France January 1742
1743: Army of the Maréchal de Noailles; battle of Dettingen
1744: Flanders; sieges of Menin and Ypres; camp of Courtrai
1746: Battle of Raucoux
1747: Battle of Lauffeld
1755: Camp de Richemont
1756-1758: Guarding the coasts of France
1759-1761: Germany
1763: Reorganised at Caen where it was stationed
And this was the uniform in 1756:
A banner one of my regiments will be flying soon. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jon. Look forward to seeing that. :-) Sorry to be slow posting your reply; the foul dose of flu my wife and I picked up the week before last is still truly horrible, with so much coughing it makes sleep very difficult. Can't wait to feel better.
DeleteAll the best,
David.
Thanks for sharing some more fantastic flag and uniform details David.
ReplyDeleteWillz.
Thank you, Willz. :-) As above to Jon, sorry to be slow posting your comment but the flu makes life very difficult at present.
DeleteAll the best,
David.