The infantry under the Reign of Charles Emmanuel III

Organization

par Jean Cerino Badone

Kingdom of Sardinia there were kinds of infantry regiment:

Contingents of permanent service

Soldiers of the Royal House;

Regiment of National Ordinance:

The recruits of these regiments (infantry, cavalry and artillery) are raised with national volunteers;

Regiment of Foreign Infantry:

The foreign regiments are raised with the usual sistem of the Capitolations, but the regiments are not created for a single campaign but they have to exist for many years.

Regiment of Invalids:

This Corp, raised in 1710 (some compagnies were still in existence since 1685) is sited distribuited into the municipal fortress.

Contingents of temporal service

Regiment of Provincial Infantry;

Raised with men of an age beetween 18 and 40 years old. They, during the year, have to assemble twice times.

Militia;

This old corps, created before the Provincial Infantry, is without a firm ordinament, and it is raised only in particolary dangerous case.

 

Jean Cerino Badone