1st Artillery Regiment (France)

Régiment de La Fère
1ére Régiment d'Artillerie à Pied
1ére Régiment d'Artillerie
Régiment de La Fère; 1ére Régiment d'Artillerie à Pied; 1ére Régiment d'Artillerie
	Insignia of the 1st Artillery Regiment
Active	1671–Present
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	Artillery
Part of	1st Division
Garrison/HQ	Belfort
Motto(s)	Royal d'abord premier toujours
Conflicts	War of the Austrian Succession; Seven Years' War; War of the First Coalition; War of the Second Coalition; Egyptian Campaign; War of the Third Coalition; War of the Fourth Coalition; Peninsular War; Invasion of Russia; War of the Sixth Coalition; Siege of Antwerp; Crimean War; Sino-French War; World War I; World War II; Algerian War;
Decorations	Croix de guerre 1914-1918; with two palms
Commanders
Current; commander	LtCol Raphaël Bernard

The 1st Artillery Regiment is a regiment of artillery in the French Army tracing its modern history to 1791 when the Régiment de La Fére was re-organised into the 1st Artillery Regiment after the French Revolution.

History[]

Colours of the Régiment de La Fère

It was raised as the Régiment de la Fère in 1765, from the 1st battalion of the . In 1791, after the French Revolution, it had the title of its aristocratic patron removed and was given the number 1, as the seniormost French regiment of artillery. In 1785, Napoleon Bonaparte was commissioned into this regiment as a sous lieutenant. He officially served until 1790, but he spent most of that time on leave in Corsica, where he led a battalion of Republican volunteers.^[1]

Current Organisation[]

The current organisation of the regiment is:^[2]

Command and Logistics Battery
1ére Batterie (MLRS M270)
2éme Batterie (MLRS M270)
3éme Batterie (MLRS M270)
4éme Batterie (COBRA, anti-battery)
5éme Batterie (GA10 Ground-Alert anti-battery)
6éme Batterie (Reserve)
Maintenance Battery

References[]

^ Cronin, Vincent (1973). Napoleon. Harmondsworth, UK: Pelican Books. ISBN 978-0140217162, p. 47.
^ "1er régiment d'artillerie". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2020-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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[1] Cronin, Vincent (1973). Napoleon. Harmondsworth, UK: Pelican Books. ISBN 978-0140217162, p. 47.

[2] "1er régiment d'artillerie". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2020-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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