The Régiment de Soissonnais has a long history in the French armed forces. They fought at the

Battle of Fontenoy The Battle of Fontenoy was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession, fought on 11 May 1745 near Tournai in modern Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Army of roughly the same size, led by th ...

1745 and the Battle of Yorktown (1781) during the American Revolution.René Favier, « Soudard des champs, soldat des villes », ''in'' L’Alpe, ''Citadelles d’altitude'', numéro37, juin 2007, p.25

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