Flags Carried By French Infantry Regiment Aunis 1684-1749

I created these over three years ago but have only just done the write up; there is a link with some recent French flags as this was one of the infantry regiments captured at Blenheim in 1704. There are now 127 French infantry flag sets (actually more as some include variants!) on the blog.

First raised 1684 and given to Armand-Scipion-Sidoine-Apollinaire-Gaspard, Vicomte de Polignac. One battalion strong.

Service (from Susane):

1692 Army of Flanders; siege of Namur; battle of Steenkirken
1693 Served on the coasts
1694 Army of Italy
1695 Army of Catalonia
1696 Army of Italy; siege of Valenza
1697 Army of the Meuse
1702 Army of the Rhine; battle of Friedlingen where the colonel was wounded
1703 Siege of Breisach; siege of Landau; battle of Speyerbach

1704 Given to Charles Hugues, Comte de Lyonne

1704 Army of Bavaria; battle of Hochstedt [Blenheim]; one of seven regiments taken prisoner in the village of Blenheim [Iain Stanford's Marlborough Goes To War tells us the regiment was 2 battalions strong at Blenheim]
1706 Exchanged
1706-1710 Served on the Rhine

1710 Given to Henri-Antoine-Thomas, Chevalier de Brancas-Courbon

1711 Army of Flanders; combat of Arleux
1712 Battle of Denain; capture of Douai, Du Quesnoy and Bouchain

Given 1734 to the Comte de Chatellux

1739-1740 Campaigning in Corsica

1742 Army of Flanders

1743 Given to César-François de Beauvoir, Marquis de Chatellux

1745 Army of the Lower Rhine

1745 Given to François-Emery de Durfort, Comte de Civrac

1746 Army of Flanders; siege of Mons; siege of Charleroi; siege of Namur; battle of Rocoux; to Provence for the relief of Antibes
1747 Battle of the Assiette; the colonel was badly wounded there

1747 Given to Michel-Armand, Marquis de Broc

1747-1748 Served in the Alps to the peace

1749; grenadiers to the Grenadiers de France and the rest incorporated in the Regiment of Languedoc

And this was the uniform in the 1740s: