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    régiment de la Force 1661 : régiment de Durfort-Montgomery 1665 : régiment de Durfort-Rauzan 1670 : régiment Duc d'Anjou 1671 : renamed the régiment d'Anjou...
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  • Régiment de Commissaire Général Cavalerie Régiment Royal Étranger Cavalerie Régiment de Cuirassiers du Roi Régiment Royal Cravate Cavalerie Régiment Royal...
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    throughout the Revolutionary War. Jonathan Warner Colonel Jonathan Warner's Regiment of Minute Men, commanded by Captain Jonathan Barns, marched from Brookfield...
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  • He stayed in it until 8 February 1734, when he joined the régiment d'infanterie d'Anjou, in which his elder brother Felix François Guinement lost his...
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    who enlisted in August 1914 as a trooper in the 11e Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval [fr], the regiment in which his son Guy was a cornet. Adrien was later...
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    thunderstorm. He died at age 76 on 20 May 1834 at 6 rue d'Anjou-Saint-Honoré in Paris (now 8 rue d'Anjou in the 8th arrondissement of Paris). He was buried...
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    Religion; at the siege of La Rochelle, he first came to the notice of the duc d'Anjou, the future Henry III of France. By December 1578, Nogaret had been accepted...
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  • géographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire et de l'ancienne province d'Anjou (in French). H. Siraudeau and Co. "Geoffroy d'Andigné". Olympedia. Retrieved...
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  • d'armes des ordonnances du Roi et lieutenant-général ès pays de Touraine, d'Anjou et du Maine et Antoinette de La Tour, sa femme ... "Armorial du Saint-Esprit :...
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    was announced. Philip was the third son of Louis XV's uncle, Philip V d'Anjou, King of Spain, and Elisabeth of Parma. This engagement followed a tradition...
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    Queen Elizabeth I of England. The Catholics were commanded by the Duke d'Anjou (later King Henry III) and assisted by troops from Spain, the Papal States...
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    At his graduation, he was posted to the 47th Line Infantry Regiment (French: 47e Régiment d’Infanterie de Ligne) (RIL), with the rank of Sous-lieutenant...
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    respected his father's wish and was instead posted to the 21st Foot Chasseur Regiment at Montbéliard. Henri Gouraud was assigned in 1894 to French Sudan. He...
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    Pignerolle is located to the east of Angers in the commune of Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou in the department of Maine-et-Loire in France. Constructed in 1776 for...
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    building with a richly equipped chapel dedicated to Saint Gabriel. Charles II d'Anjou mentioned a guardpost in the 15th century, but the present basilica was...
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  • d'armes des ordonnances du Roi et lieutenant-général ès pays de Touraine, d'Anjou et du Maine et Antoinette de La Tour, sa femme ... "Armorial du Saint-Esprit :...
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    the French Wars of Religion. He entered the ducal household of the duc d'Anjou in 1571. In 1574 Anjou became king Henri III. La Rochepot found himself...
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    September 1758. He entered the army in 1771, serving in a Champagne infantry regiment. In 1772 he was transferred to the French Guards, in the ranks of which...
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    Fox-Amphoux, in today's Var département. At the age of sixteen, he entered the regiment of Languedoc as a "gentleman cadet". In 1776, he embarked for French India...
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    Ellison. Fytche then took his family to France, buying a house in the Rue d'Anjou-Saint-Honoré, Paris; this did not end well, with Fytche treated as an exiled...
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    After a roturier appointment in the grenadier corps of the Aquitaine Regiment, he retired to his estate. Pérignon welcomed the French Revolution, and...
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    his baccalaureate and enlisted in 1917. He served in the 36th Infantry Regiment. He was designated as an aspirant in February 1918 and joined his unit...
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    man named Alex Brimeyer claimed to be Maria's grandson "Prince Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Condé Romanov-Dolgoruky". He said Maria had escaped to Romania...
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    From 1937 to 1938 he was commanding officer 4th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment. In 1938 he was promoted to brigadier-general. 1939 to 1940 he was commander...
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    during a popular uprising. He was soon transferred to a regular infantry regiment. Lefebvre held the rank of captain at the start of the War of the First...
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    (whose main goal after Turin was to take Naples and Sicily from Philip duc d'Anjou's supporters), reluctantly agreed to Marlborough's plan for an attack on...
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  • Thumbnail for Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
    the French Revolutionary Wars, he joined the French Revolutionary Army regiment of the Ain, and was elected by his comrades successively as corporal and...
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    He enlisted in the army at the age of seventeen in the Clare Infantry Regiment, but was soon discharged. Later, he joined the dragoons. He became a noted...
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    day was saved by Colonel Robert Nivelle, then commanding 5th Artillery Regiment of 45th Reserve Infantry Division, who first attracted attention to himself...
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    V. The Sicilian people had not recognized Charles I of Naples (Charles d'Anjou) as their sovereign (they rebelled against him), nor Emperor Charles, whom...
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