Composition of the Army of the Western Pyrenees
The Army of the Western Pyrenees (Armée des Pyrénées Occidentales) was one of the Republican French armies of the French Revolutionary Wars. From April 1793 until 12 October 1795, the army fought in the Basque Country and in Navarre during the War of the Pyrenees. After indecisive fighting during the first year of its existence, the army seized the Spanish port of San Sebastián in August 1794. By the time the Peace of Basel was signed on 22 July 1795, the Army of the Western Pyrenees held a significant portion of northeastern Spain.
Before 1796
Cavalry
Infantry
- 20éme Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne (Cambrésis)[3]
- 80éme Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne (Angoumois)[4]
- 1er Bataillon de Chasseurs (Provence)
- 5éme Bataillon de Chasseurs (Cantabres)[4]
National Volunteers
- 3éme Bataillon de Paris de Seconde Formation
- 1ére Bataillon des Basses-Pyrénées
- 2éme Bataillon des Basses-Pyrénées
- 2éme Bataillon de la Sarthe
- Chasseurs de l'Aude
- Chasseurs de la Haute-Garronne
- Chasseurs de l'Hérault
- 1ére Compagnie Franche de Marseille
- Compagnie de Chasseurs du Midi Formée à Paris
Generals
Jean-Antoine Marbot
Amédée Willot de Gramprez
Notable generals of the Army of the Western Pyrenees include:[5]
- Jean-Antoine Marbot was elected President of the Council of the Ancients twice and became one of the Commanders of the Army of Italy.
- Henri François Delaborde served long under the First French Empire.
- Jean Boudet led a division under Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram.
- Augustin de Lespinasse went to fight successfully in the Army of Italy in 1796, but he was too old for combat duty after that.
- Antoine Digonet, Jean Isidore Harispe and Jean Maximilien Lamarque also had notable careers.
- Amédée Willot de Gramprez became a Royalist and lived in exile from 1797 to 1814.
- Frégeville was elected to the Council of Five Hundred where he connived against Moncey.
Footnotes
- Smith, p. 209.
- Susane, Cavalry Volume II, p. 321.
- Susane, Volume IV, p. 48.
- Susane, Volume VII, pp. 114, 362.
- Tableaux des Armées Françaises pendant les Guerres de la Révolution
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References
- Louis Susane, Historie de La Cavalerie Français Volume II, 1874 J. Hetzel et C Library, Paris, France.
- Louis Susane, Historie de L'Ancienne Infanterie Française Volume IV, 1851, Militaire, Maritime, et Polytechnique Libraire, Paris, France.
- Louis Susane, Historie de L'Ancienne Infanterie Française Volume VII, 1853, Militaire, Maritime, et Polytechnique Libraire, Paris, France.
- Ch.-L. Chassin & L. Hannet, Les Volontaires Nationaux Pendant La Révolution, Volume I, 1899, Léopold Cerf Librarie & Noblet Librairie, Paris, France.
- Ch.-L. Chassin & L. Hannet, Les Volontaires Nationaux Pendant La Révolution, Volume II, 1902, Léopold Cerf Librarie & Noblet Librairie, Paris, France.
- Clerget, Charles (1905). Tableaux des Armées Françaises pendant les Guerres de la Révolution. Paris: Librarie Militaire R. Chapelot et Cie.
- Digby Smith, Napoleon's Regiments Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792–1815, 2000 Greenhill Books, London, United Kingdom. ISBN 1-85367-413-3.
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