The Bourbonnais Regiment was organized in 1597 from the garrisons of Provence. The regiment received the name “Bourbonnais” in 1673. The Bourbonnais Regiment was sent to America with Rochambeau in 1780. On March 16, 1781, the regiment participated, on the ships Ardent and Jason, in the naval battle between British admiral Arbuthnot and French admiral d’Étouches at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay. Some of its chasseurs also participated in the taking of the two British redoubts on the night of October 14-15, 1781. The Bourbonnais Regiment was the seventh from the French left, being brigaded with the Deux-Ponts Regiment, under Major General Baron de Viomenil. After the Yorktown victory, the Bourbonnais Regiment returned to New England in the long marching column of Rochambeau’s army, with its slow artillery and wagon train. By the end of 1782, the regiment had left America and returned to France. From 1776 to 1783, the Bourbonnais Regiment was commanded by Colonel Marquis de Laval de Montmorenci, with Viscount de Rochambeau, son of Count de Rochambeau, as Colonel en second, until November 1782.