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Troupes de la Marine in formation. The Troupes de la Marine (French pronunciation: [tʁup də la maʁin], lit. ' Troops of the Navy ') was a French military formation founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1622. It was under the denomination of Compagnie ordinaire de la mer, originally intended to form the garrisons of the ships of the King.
The troupes de marine were tasked with insuring the French presence in its Asian, African, and American colonies. The revolutionary period saw a definite division in 1792 between the reconstituted troupes de marine and the ships of the navy. Under Napoleon, the troupes de marine were used primarily as line infantry.
The Compagnies franches de la marine (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃paɲi fʁɑ̃ʃ də la maʁin]; previously known as Troupes de la marine, later renamed and reorganized as Troupes coloniales and then Troupes de Marine) were an ensemble of autonomous infantry units attached to the French Royal Navy (French: marine royale) bound to serve both on land and sea.
61st Line Infantry Regiment de 1792 à 1795. History ... Troupes de la marine; References Sources and bibliographies. Chronologie historique-militaire, par M. Pinard ...
This was only made possible due to the drastic funding increases he managed to obtain for the Troupes de la Marine. The typical budget appropriated to the marine from the mid-1720s to mid-1730s was 9 million livres ; in 1739, however, Jean-Frederic managed to obtain a budget of 19.2 million livres.
From 1779 to 1782, the régiment Royal-La Marine participated to operations in Antilles. The 1st battalion of the 60th Line Infantry Regiment conducted the campaign of 1794 at the armée de l'Ouest (French: armée de l'Ouest); the 2 e, embarked at La Rochelle in 1792 for Saint-Domingue, where garrison would be held until 1794.
The 45th Line Infantry Regiment participated in the 1792-1793 campaign with the Army of the North (France), [3] ... Troupes de la marine; References
He joined the Troupes de la Marine in 1733 and became an assistant engineer in 1739. Chaussegros took part in raids against the British in New England, helped maintain French fortifications in New France and was in charge of the construction of Fort Saint-Jean.