List of Royal French foreign regiments

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 the French military effort. Swedish and Polish regiments were counted as German; Scotch 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.

Régiment de Yoel
Raised 1690 → 1692: Régiment de Royal Danois (disbanded 1698)

Régt Yoel and Régt Royal Danois

Régiment d’Albany

Régiment de Betagh

Régiment de Berwick
Raised 1698
→ 1791: 88ème régiment d’infanterie de ligne

Colonel 1698

Colonel 1781

Berwick 1781

Berwick 1720

Berwick 1762

Berwick 1767

Berwick 1776

Régiment de Dillon
Raised 1690
→ 1791: 87ème régiment d’infanterie de ligne

Dillon

Dillon 1720

Dillon 1734

Dillon 1762

Dillon 1791

Régiment de Clare
Raised 1691
→ 1691: Régiment de Clare
→ 1694: Régiment de Lee
→ 1730: Régiment de Bulkeley
→ 1775: Merged with Régiment de Dillon

Bulkeley 1720

Bulkeley 1734

Bulkeley 1762

Régiment d' O'Brien
Raised 1689
→ 1706: Régiment d' O'Brien
→ 1720: Règiment de Clare
→ 1775: Merged with Régiment de Berwick

Clare 1720

Régiment de Dorrington
Raised 1698
→ 1718: Régiment de Rooth
→ 1766: Régiment de Roscommon
→ 1770: Régiment de Walsh
→ 1791: 92ème régiment d’infanterie de ligne

Rég Dorrington and all successors

Rooth 1720

Walsh 1776

Régiment de Lally
Raised 1744
→ 1762: Merged with Régiment de Dillon

Lally

Lally 1744

Régiment d’Ogilvy
Raised 1747
→ 1770: Merged with Régiment de Clare

Ogilvy Colonel

Ogilvy

Ogilvy 1747

Régiment de Royal Écossais
Raised 1744
→ 1762: Merged with Régiment de Bulkeley

Royal Ecossais - Colonel

Royal Ecossais

Royal Ecossais 1743/44 - 1757

Régiment de Solre
Raised 1698
→ 1711: Régiment de Beaufort
→ 1721: Régiment de Bouffler
→ 1727: Régiment de La Valliére
→ 1741: Régiment de Guise
→ 1747: Régiment d’Escars
→ 1749: Merged with Régiment de Tournaisis (French regiment)

Rég Solre till Rég La Valliére

La Valliére

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