# 102nd Infantry Regiment (France)

The 102nd Infantry Regiment (French: 102e Régiment d'Infanterie, 102e RI) was an infantry regiment of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Reconstituted several times in the 19th century, it took part in the Second Opium War in China, then in the First and Second World Wars, being disbanded in 1940.

## French Royal Army

Its ancestor regiments were the Infantry Regiment of the Line Le Dauphin (Nr. 29) and Royal-Deux Ponts (Nr 99). The regiment was raised in 1667 by Michel De Fisicat, as Le Dauphin (nr. 29) and on 26 April 1775 split into two regiments. The 1st and 3rd battalions retained the old title and number and the 2nd and rth battalions became the new infantry regiment Perche (Nr 30).

## The Revolutionary Wars as Infantry Regiment of the Line Perche (Nr 30)
### Campaigns

Initially, the regiment served in the Army of the Center, at Metz. Following the Battle of Valmy on 20 September 1792, the regiment was assigned to the Army of the Ardennes. In 1793, the regiment saw action in the Meuse campaign. In 1794, it underwent its first amalgamation (17 May), under the Levée en Masse, and became the 2nd battalion 59th Demi-Brigade of Battle, with the 4th battalion, Volunteers of Paris, also called 'l'Oratoire and the 7th battalion of the Rhône-et-Loire, in the Army of the Moselle.
In 1797, the regiment was part of the Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse. In 1798, as part of the Army of Germany and the Army of Mayence (Mainz), the Regiment saw action in the Rhineland. In 1799, as part of the Army of Mayence, it was transferred to the Army of the Danube, under the general command of Jean-Baptiste Jourdan; the regiment was part of the I Division, under the immediate command of Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino, and participated in action at the Battle of Ostrach (20–21 March 1799), and the Battle of Stockach, 25–26 March 25–26, 1799. On 25 September 1799, the regiment fought at the Battle of Zurich.
    Battle of Caldiero

## The Napoleonic Wars
### War Of The Third Coalition

    Battle of Austerlitz

### War of the Fourth Coalition

    Battle of Halle
    Battle of Lübeck
    Battle of Mohrungen
    Battle of Friedland
    Battle of Schleiz

### The Peninsular war

    Dos de Mayo Uprising
    Battle of Zornoza
    Battle of Valmaseda
    Battle of Espinosa
    Battle of Talavera
    Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
    Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos
    Battle of Maya
    Occupation of Pamplona,
    Battle of the Bidassoa (1813), Spelleto, and
    Battle of Bayonne

### War of the Fifth Coalition

    Battle of Essling
    Battle of Wagram

### War of the Sixth Coalition

    Siege of Danzig, Wurschen, Gieshubel,
    Battle of Dresden, Grieffenberg, Elsen,
    Battle of Dohna,
    Battle of Bautzen
    Siege of Genoa (1814) 2 battalions present

### War of the Seventh Coalition

    Battle of Lille
    Battle of Courtrai

## Greek War of Independence
### The Morea expedition

    1828 : Expédition de Morée

## Sources
### Citations and notes

* ↑ Digby Smith, Napoleon's Regiments: Battle histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815, London: Greenhill, 2000, ISBN 1-85367-413-3, p. 149.
* 1 2 Smith, p. 149.
* ↑ Berjaud, Fréderic (2009). "le 102e Régiment d'infanterie de ligne de 1796 à 1815". mon site consacré aux Soldats de la Grande Armée (in French). Retrieved 10 October 2022.