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History
The Nerestang regiment, under the command of Marshal Lesdiguières, attended army war in 1600.
The regiment Bourbonnais is present at Toulon and in Corsica to 1768-1769. The "Knight of Arçais", Pierre Goullard, Captain in the regiment, and a native of Poitou (Niort, Arçais), investigated several complaints of indebtedness on the part of his superiors and the cash of Corsica.
Bourbonnais was the year of the declaration of independence of the United States in Corsica. In this same year, 1776, he left this island. In 1779, after that war had been declared in France by Britain, because of the Treaty of friendship with the United States and the recognition of their independence from the french government, he was directed to Britain, held some time Rennes, passed in June, in Brest where he embarked last April 7, 1780. He was the oldest of the four regiments, the count of Rochambeau was driving to the United States.
This small army arrived in July at Newport and the Americans immediately gave him custody of all the fortifications on the coast of Rhode Island against which the British general Clinton, who had to give up these corner the previous year, was preparing a formidable expedition. The arrival of the French army made her give up.
Bourbonnais spent the winter in these areas and it was not until June 1781 that the army of Rochambeau was concentrated and met U.S. Army. The two armies together made road to Yorktown, in the South and on the Chesapeake Bay.
July 21, 2500 men of the army of Rochambeau, the regiments of Bourbonnais and Regiment Royal-two-bridges, as well as a trained battalion Soissonnais slited companies, controlled by the chevalier de Chastellux, poursserent a recognition on Kingsbridge and forced the British to back their positions. French troops, after a remarkable market by excessive heat that could not shoot down their eagerness and their cheerfulness, arrived on 15 August at the doors of Philadelphia. The affuence of the inhabitants, when they entered the city after a halt for self-adornment, was immense in their path. Houses were draped in the colours of the two nations, and when the french warriors filed under the eyes of Congress, this House honored them his brotherly greeting and its cheers. The entire population made them party
