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
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