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1st Infantry Regiment (France)

Field	Value
unit_name	1st Infantry Regiment
native_name
image	Insigne 1er régiment d'infanterie.png
image_size	150px
caption	Insignia of the 1st Infantry Regiment.
dates	1479–present
country	France
branch	Army
command_structure	Franco-German Brigade part of [1st Division](1st-armored-division-france)
type	Mechanised infantry
size	1 regiment (1,150)
garrison	Sarrebourg, France
motto	On ne relève pas Picardie

: French Revolutionary Wars :: Battle of Quiévrain :: Battle of Valmy :: Battle of Jemappes :: Siege of Valenciennes :: Battle of Wissembourg :: Battle of Fleurus :: Battle of Stockach :: First Battle of Zurich :: Second Battle of Zurich :: Battle of Moeskirch :: Battle of Biberach :: Battle of Caldiero :: Battle of Sacile : Napoleonic Wars : Peninsular War :: Siege of San Sebastián : War of the Fifth Coalition : War of the Sixth Coalition :: Wars of German Liberation ::: Battle of Lützen (1813) ::: Battle of Leipzig :: Countryside of France ::: Six Days' Campaign : Hundred Days :: Waterloo Campaign ::: Battle of Waterloo : French Conquest of Algeria : Franco-Prussian War : First World War :: First Battle of the Marne :: Race to the Sea :: Battle of the Somme :: Battle of Verdun :: Third Battle of the Aisne :: Battle of Noyon : Second World War : Algerian War : Cold War : War in Afghanistan

The 1st Infantry Regiment () or 1er RI is an infantry regiment of the French Army, founded in 1479 as one of the oldest regiments in active service in the world. It is an offspring of the bande de Picardie under the Ancien Régime, and one of the five oldest regiments in France. It particularly distinguished itself, as the 1ère Demi-Brigade d'Infanterie de Ligne, during the French Revolutionary Wars at the Battles of Fleurus (1794), Messkirch (1800) and Biberach (1800). The regiment has been patroned by the city of Saint-Amand-Montrond since 12 April 2003.

The 1er RI is the only French infantry regiment to feature a squadron specialised in urban warfare, the Groupe Commando d'Investigation (CGI, "Breaching Commando Group"). The CGI is, with the Compagnie de Combat en zone Urbaine of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment, the benchmark for urban combat in the French military.

Honours

The flag bears the names of the battle in which the 1st Infantry Regiment took part for the French Republic: Valmy 1792, Fleurus 1794, Moeskirch 1800, Biberach 1800, Miliana 1842, Guise 1914, Verdun-l'Yser 1916–1917, La Somme 1916, L'Ourcq 1918, Résistance Berry 1944, AFN 1952–1962.

During the Napoleonic Wars the regiment fought at the battles of Caldiero, Wagram, Salamanca, Lützen, Bautzen, Dresden, Leipzig, Montmirail, Vauchamps, Quatre Bras and Waterloo.

The Fourragère of the Médaille militaire was attributed on 10 September 1918, and presented by General Castelneau on 19 October 1918 in Alsace, after the regiment was mentioned in dispatches at the order of the Army for the fourth time. It is adorned of the olive of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918, and of the olive of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 for two mentions in despatches awarded during the Phony War and in the French Resistance

|File:1er régiment d'infanterie de ligne - drapeau.svg|Regimental flag |File:Fourragère aux couleurs de la médaille miltaire avec olives de la croix de guerre 1914-1918 1939-1945.jpg|Fourragère of the Médaille militaire with olives of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 and 1939–1945

References

[http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/c_frenchinf1.html French Infantry Regiments and the Colonels who Led Them: 1791 to 1815, Part I: 1er - 10e Regiments]

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