Cerino-Badone, Swiss Regiments - Libreria Militare Ares

him the command of a regiment in Austrian service. Similarly he won the praise of Charles
Emmanuel III and the patent of Col of infantry. In April 1744 he obtained the Regt. Diesbach and
the head of it he was killed in action at the battle of Pierrelongue the 19 July 1744, hit by a bullet in
the chest shot by a grenadier of the Regt. Poitou while armed with a spear he was fighting for the
defence of the redoubt of Mont Passet. It was buried on the battlefield;
22-7-1744, Pierre Antoine Louis Roi (Romainmoitier, 2 February 1688 - Susa, 24 February
1760). He was the son of Frederic Roi, secretary and later the bailiff of Romainmotier’s assessor.
On 10 March, 1706 he was engaged in the Netherlands Regt. Tscharner as E. He fought in the War
of Spanish Succession and he was reformed in 1716 with the rank of LC. He went to French service
in 1719 as C in the Regt. Brendle from which he took leave to go to the service of the kingdom of
Sardinia the 13 November 1733, raising a company in the Regt. Roguin, to whom the same day he
was appointed M. He served actively in all the campaigns of the War of Austrian Succession, the 28
April 1744 he was appointed LCol and the 22 July of that year Col and owner of the regiment. He
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