Category: New France Armed Forces

Categories: Quebecois Project | Military | Nouvelle-France | New France

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Among the French Army units assigned to "New France" during its history were:

• Carignan-Salières Regiment (Régiment de Carignan-Salières) (1665–1668)
• Régiment Suisse de Karrer 1722-1745 (Louisbourg); 1747-1749 (Quebec). 176 soldiers and 4 officers 1740s
• Militia artillery corps (2 brigades) - 1723
• Reserve companies (2 units) - 1750s
• The Governor General's Guard 1672-1682 - 20 mounted men-at-arms or carabineers for Comte de Frontenac
• Compagnie des canonniers-bombardiers de Quebec (Gunner and Bombardier Company) 1750-1760 - consisted of 43 gunners/bombers
• Régiment de la Reine 1755-1760
• Régiment de Guyenne 1755-1760.
• Régiment de Berry 1755-1760
• Régiment de Béarn 1755-1760
• Régiment de la Sarre 1755-1760
• Régiment Royal Roussillon 1755-1760
• Régiment de Languedoc 1755-1760
• Régiment de Bourgogne 1755-1760
• Régiment d'Artois 1755-1760 - 520 soldiers
• Régiment de Cambis 1758 - 680 soldiers, 2 companies
• Various Maréchaussées, mainly as police units

A number of French naval units were also sent. Marine companies to New France Compagnies Franches de la Marine

A convoy of nine naval vessels that carried General Montcalm to Canada sailed from the port of Brest, France on 3 May 1755. The nine vessels were: Actif, Algonquin, Dauphin Royal, Deffenseur, Esperance, Fleur de Lys, Illustre, Leopard and Opiniatre.

• database of the French and British army soldiers in Québec in 1759 and 1760 There are 11,358 entries, 4,079 for French and 7,279 for British fighters. French military personnel were members of Troupes de Terre, Compagnies Franches de la Marine, and the French Navy, while the British were from infantry regiments, joined later by Royal Navy personnel.

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