18th Line Infantry Regiment. NOMINAL STATEMENT OF THE COMPLETE COMPOSITION OF THE REGIMENT, with Colonel Pierre de Pelleport. 1813. 18909-30
Double sheet. Handwritten table on four pages, providing the complete composition of the regiment under the command of Colonel Pierre de Pelleport.
Surname, first name, rank, transfer, death, vacancy, recommendation, ...
Size: 34 cm x 22 cm.
Good condition.
* Pierre de Pelleport, born on October 26, 1773 in Montréjeau, Haute-Garonne, and died on December 15, 1855 in Bordeaux, Gironde, was a French general of the Empire, a Peer of France, and the mayor of Bordeaux.
Seriously wounded at the Battle of Eylau in 1807, he later served in the armies of the Restoration and was appointed to the Chamber of Peers in 1841. Pelleport enlisted as a soldier on June 24, 1793, in the 8th Volunteer Battalion of Haute-Garonne during the mass enlistment in his department. He participated in the campaigns of the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, during which he was promoted to the rank of sub-lieutenant on December 25, 1793. He then joined the Army of Italy in the 18th half-brigade (later the 18th Line Infantry Regiment) and fought at Montenotte, Lodi, Arcole, and Rivoli. Transferred to the Army of the East, he received his commission as captain adjutant-major on March 20, 1799, and was wounded under the walls of Saint-Jean-d'Acre on April 25 of the same year.
HISTORY:
The 18th Infantry Regiment (18th RI) is an infantry regiment of the French Army created under the Revolution from the Royal-Auvergne Regiment, a regiment of the Old Regime.
Commanders:
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1809: Pierre Pelleport - Colonel (*)
1813: Louis-Antoine Sauset - Colonel
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Reference :
18909-30