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List of Royal French foreign regiments information


Company colour of Régiment de Boufflers-Wallon
Company colour Régiment de Royal-Deux-Ponts

Royal French foreign regiments were enlisted abroad for French service during the 17th and 18th centuries. Coming mainly from Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, and Wallonia they gave a significant contribution to the French military effort. Swedish and Polish regiments were counted as German, Scottish as Irish. After the French Revolution the foreign regiments were in 1791 merged with the indigenous French regiments to new, numbered, regiments of the line.

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Origins of the French Foreign Legion

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Karrer Regiment

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the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers. In 1751, after reforms that standardised the naming and numbering of regiments, it became...

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