The regiment of Bourbonnais is present in Toulon and Corsica to 1768-1769. The "knight Arçais" Goullard Peter, a captain in the regiment, and a native of Poitou (Niort, Arçais), is the subject of several complaints of indebtedness on the part of superiors and Treasury of Corsica.
The Bourbonnais in Corsica was the year of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. In the same year, 1776, he left the island. In 1779, after the war had been declared against France by Great Britain, because of the friendship treaty with the United States and recognition of their independence from the French government, he was sent to Brittany, occupied Rennes some time, passed, in June, at Brest, where he embarked last April 7, 1780. He was the oldest of the four regiments which the Count de Rochambeau led the United States.
This little army arrived in July at Newport and the Americans gave him immediate custody of all the intrenchments on the coast of Rhode Island against which the British general, Clinton, who had to abandon these retrenchments last year, was preparing a formidable expedition. The arrival of the French army was abandoned.
Bourbonnais spent the winter in these areas and it was not until June 1781 that Rochambeau's army was concentrated and held at the U.S. Army. The two armies together made their way to Yorktown, in the south and the Chesapeake Bay.
On July 21, 2500 men of Rochambeau's army, the regiments of Bourbonnais and Royal Deux-Ponts, and a battalion formed companies slited of Soissons, commanded by the Chevalier de Chastellux, a recognition of pourssèrent Kingsbridge and forced the British to withdraw all their positions. The French troops, after a remarkable march, by excessive heat that could destroy their excitement and their happiness, arrived August 15 at the gates of Philadelphia. The affuence residents when they entered the city after making a stop to adorn themselves, was immense in their path. The houses were decked in the colors of both nations, and when the French soldiers paraded in front of Congress, the meeting honored them with his salvation and his fraternal cheers. The entire population had their feast.
The French troops did not stop one day in Philadelphia. It was learned that the fleet of Count de Grasse had entered Chesapeake Bay. They then went to the bottom of the bay where a few companies embarked. The rest of the troops marched to Baltimore and thence to Annapolis, where they found the transport ships. Both fleets have covered the bay entered the James River, and the regiments they had on board joined those that Count de Grasse had brought from the Antilles and the Marquis de St. Simon commanded. In general was the head of regiments Agenois of Gâtinais (soon named Royal Auvergne) and Touraine. Rochambeau had with him those of Bourbonnais, Soissons, and Santonge Royal Deux-Ponts.
These troops Format employs approximately 7,500 men, gathered in as many Americans, September 28 vinrest form investment of Yorktown. The French were responsible for the attack on the left, and it was the Bourbonnais who opened the trenches on October 7, 1781. 15 The same month, he strongly rejected an output, and, 19, Cornwallis resigned himself to capitulate. The regiment immediately occupied all positions on his attack and scored another win its flags.
The regiments that were coming Caribbean re-embarked on Nov. 4, and 14, the four regiments of Rochambeau went into quarters in Williamsburg . They stayed there during the campaign of 1782, year in March 1782, they went to Rhode Island where the expected fleet of Vaudreuil who was to bring them back to France. A vessel of Vaudreuil who perished in a storm, the U.S. gave a touching example of gratitude to France by making a gift to this nation's first warship they had built, they possessed the only At that time, the America of 74 guns.
Upon his arrival in France, the Bourbonnais was sent to Metz. This regiment lost its old name in 1791. He became the 13e Régiment d'Infantrerie de Ligne , and the current 13e Régiment d'Infantrerie de Ligne , stationed at Nevers, follows it. |
