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

Battle of Fontenoy The Battle of Fontenoy took place on 11 May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Tournai, then in the Austrian Netherlands, now Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Maurice, comte de Saxe, Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Ar ...

1745 and the

Battle of Yorktown (1781) The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, was the final battle of the American Revolutionary War. It was won decisively by the Continental Army, led by George Washington, with support from the Mar ...

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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