I'm hoping to find out more about a detachment of Grenadiers Francs that went to Ireland with Humbert in 1798. I have one source which says that this unit (2 officers 51 men) had just returned to France from Ile de France on the "frigate' La Lune. I can't find anything about the ship but it must have returned to France in the summer of 1798. And where would these men have been drawn from? Had there been grenadiers in Ile Maurice, Ile de France? Any help appreciated!
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The 107e ci-devant Régiment de Pondichéry didn't cease to exist with the fall of Pondichéry in 1793, it had its 1st Battalion in India with Sepoys Battalions completing the garrison while the other 2nd Battalion was in garrison in Ile-de-France that is why both 107e and 108e Régiment still appear together after 1793 in the Mascareignes and why, so far from France, in the colonies, excluded from the first "amalgame" in metropolitan France the Half-Brigades numbered "189e" and "190e" who should be raised each with 1st and 2nd Battalion of the 107e never saw the light and remained vacants numbers for numbering the half-brigades of 1793 and the same for both following vacants half-brigades "191e" and "192e" (planned flag below) with the 108e...
It remained some old not amalgamated battalions having escaped to the mix with the "blue" volunteers battalions since 1793 like these ones Overseas, so there were the 2nd Battalion of the 107e Régiment (former of Pondichéry) and 108e Régiment d'Infanterie at the same time that the 107e Demi-Brigade (1st amalgame 1793 from 1st Battalion of 54e Régiment Royal Roussillon) and 108e Demi-Brigade (from 2nd battalion) not to be mixed with the 107e and 108e Demi-Brigade of 2nd amalgame 1796-1798