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The Fusiliers Marins (also known as Fusiliers de Marine) are units specialised in the protection and defence of key sites of the French Navy on land. The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale ( National Navy) and often called La Royale ( The Royal Navy) is the maritime arm A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group One of France 's Secretaries of State under the Ancien régime was entrusted with control of the French Navy ( Secretary of State of the Navy (France The Préfet Maritime is a servant of the French State who exercises authority over the sea in one particular region (a Préfecture maritime) The Force d'action navale (FAN Naval Action Force is the 12000-man and about 100-ship strong backbone of the French Navy. The Force océanique stratégique (FOST Strategic Oceanic Force is the Ballistic missile submarine force of the French Navy. The Aviation navale ( Naval aviation) of the French Navy includes 162 airplanes (138 of them combat-capable and 6800 men both civilians and military personnel The Naval Commandos (Commandos marine are the Special forces of the French Navy. The Maritime Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Maritime is a component of French gendarmerie under operational control of the chief of staff of the French Navy. This is a (non exhaustive list of currently operating ships of the French Navy. Standing French Navy Deployments is a list of current deployments by the French Navy: Caribbean Fort-de-France, The rank Insignia of the French Navy ( French: Marine Nationale) are worn on shoulder straps of shirts and white jackets Although the History of the French Navy goes back to the Middle Ages when it was defeated by the English at the Battle of Sluys and with Castilian help managed The French Navy is undertaking a significant reinforcement both in modernising and in number under the Projet de loi de programmation militaire 2003-2008 ("Military programme A French ensign is the flag flown at sea to identify a vessel as French. This is a list of traditional French Navy ship names, along with notices for notable units This is a list of French Battleships of the period 1859-1970 Note that the dates given are the ships' launch date cruisers Armorique (1862 Circé (1860 Flore (1869 Cosmao class Cosmao (1861 Dupleix (1861 This is a list of French broadside battleships of the period 1640-1861 Sections stating the ruler in power are provided as chronological references This is a list of French sail frigates from the start of the 1740s Chinese Fleets Beiyang Fleet Nanyang Fleet East Sea Fleet North Sea Fleet South The Croix de Guerre (sometimes lowercase in French Croix de guerre, meaning "Cross of War" is a military decoration of both France and The Médaille militaire (Military Medal is a decoration of the French Republic which was first instituted in 1852. Here stands a list of the ribbons of the French military and civil awards The French Order of Chivalry The principal French military awards The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale ( National Navy) and often called La Royale ( The Royal Navy) is the maritime arm They consist of about 1,200 men.
Their deployments include:
- One group in Toulon and another in Brest, with a "Regional Intervention Group" to reinforce the protection of any particular building or place. Toulon ( Provençal Occitan: Tolon in classical norm or Touloun in Mistralian norm is a city in southern France and a large Brest (bʁɛst in French, in Breton) is a city in the Finistère department in Bretagne in northwestern France.
- Seven companies scattered around metropolitan territory: one in the naval base of Cherbourg, one in every site of the FOST (Île Longue, France-sud, Rosnay and Sainte Assise) and one on each of the naval air bases of Lann Bihoué and Nîmes-Garons. The Force océanique stratégique (FOST Strategic Oceanic Force is the Ballistic missile submarine force of the French Navy. Île Longue ( French for “Long Island” is an island of the Roadstead of Brest.
They also protect the DOM/TOM where interarm transmission stations are located.
The missions of the Fusiliers Marins are
- missions on shores from the sea
- support of the commandos marine during special operations
- protection of sensitive sites of the Navy
- protection of the ships and security aboard. The Naval Commandos (Commandos marine are the Special forces of the French Navy.
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History
In 1627, Richelieu founded the Régiment de la Marine. This article is about a cardinal For information on the Russian also called The Red Eminence, see Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov. It was to provide onboard troops capable of fighting on land or on sea, and commanded by the officers of the ship. These troops were part of the crew, and helps manoeuvering the ship.
The base unit was the 70-man company, compagnie détachée de la Marine. It was commanded by a lieutenant des vaisseaux du Roi ("Lieutenant of the Ships of the King") and two ensigns. These companies fought in all French colonies, particularly in Nouvelle France. An anonymous Fusilier de Marine is credited for Nelson's death during the Battle of Trafalgar. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758– 21 October 1805 was a British The Battle of Trafalgar ( 21 October 1805) was a historic sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the
In 1825, a royal decree abolished the Régiments de la Marine and imposed that landing parties (compagnies de débarquement) should be composed of sailors. The tradition of the Régiments de la Marine later gave birth to the troupes de marine and troupes coloniales of the Army.
As the crews of the ships lacked personnel trained for fighting on land, the imperial decree of 5 June 1856 created the specialisation of marin fusilier. The fusiliers-marins was initially composed of sailors and naval officers who were sent to special training in Lorient in order to form the marine detachments aboard ships. Lorient, or L'Orient, (An Oriant is a commune and a Seaport in the Morbihan département, of Brittany. This was not the first time that the French had tried this approach. Before the First Republic, the Corps royal de l'infanterie de la marine had been superseded by the Corps royal de canonniers-matelots on January 1, 1786.
These troops were notably engaged during the war of 1870 in Bapaume and defending Paris and in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Bapaume is a commune and the chief town of a canton in the Pas-de-Calais département in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region The Boxer Rebellion, or Boxer Movement, was an uprising by members of the Chinese Society of Right and Harmonious Fists against foreign influence
In World War I, their famous defense in 1914 of Dixmunde in the Battle of the Yser stands out. The Battle of the Yser secured the coastline of Belgium for the allies in the " Race to the Sea " in the first three months of World War I. They also served in Serbia and at the Dardanelles.
The fusiliers-marins were busy studying amphibious warfare, testing experimental landing craft and taking part in exercices combinés from the late 1920s until the mid 1930s.
In World War II, their most famous battles were Bir Hacheim and Normandy (D-Day). World War II fusiliers-marins units included the 1er Regiment de Fusiliers-Marins de Reconnaissance which served in the 1st Free French Division (1er DFL), the Régiment Blindé de Fusiliers Marins (RBFM) of the 2nd Armored Division and the 1st Battalion of fusiliers marin commandos (1er BFMC).
In Vietnam after World War II, the French Navy and fusiliers marins created the famous riverine warfare units called divisions navales d'assaut (naval assault divisions), commonly referred to as dinassauts. The Demi-Brigade de Fusiliers-Marins (DBFM) which included the Bataillon d'Intervention de Fusiliers-Marins (BIFM) served in Algeria.
 "Call to fair men; the Royal regiment of Naval fusiliers is recruiting. . . " Louis XV |
 Musée de la Marine, Paris: Naval Infantry shako, around 1829. |
 Inspections at sea are often carried out by fusilliers marins |
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References
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- Raymond Maggiar, Les fusiliers marins dans la division Leclerc, du débarquement en Normandie, en passant par Paris et Strasbourg jusqu'à Berchtesgaden, Paris : Albin Michel, 1947.
- Marcel Vigneras, Rearming the French, Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, US, 1957.
- Edward L Bimberg, Tricolor over the Sahara the desert battles of the Free French, 1940-1942, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002, ISBN 0313010978 or ISBN 9780313010972.
- Adolphe Auguste Marie Lepotier, Les fusiliers marins, Editions France, 1962.
- Raymond Maggiar, Les fusiliers marins de Leclerc: une route difficile vers de Gaulle, Editions France-Empire, 1984, ISBN 2704803412 or ISBN 9782704803415.
- Charles W. Koburger, The French Navy in Indochina: Riverine and Coastal Forces, 1945-54, Praeger, 1991, ISBN 0275938336 or ISBN 9780275938338.
- L’évolution des opérations amphibies, La Revue maritime, n° 198, avril 1963, p. 424.
- René Bail. , DBFM, demi-brigade des fusiliers marins, Rennes : Marines, 2007, ISBN 2915379572 or ISBN 9782915379570.
- M. Alexander, France and the Algerian War, 1954-1962: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0714682640 or ISBN 978-0714682648,
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