"When did the French Army adopt the Tricolour ? " Topic

When did the French army adopt the Tricolour as if flag ?

There was a resolution in 1794 for the Nation to have the Trcolour as it National flag, but when did the Army start using it ?

"The law passed in February 1794 to establish the tricolor flag as the national flag. "
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Since it was adopted as the national flag, the army would presumably be obliged to start using it immediately.

To a point yes but not exactly, as the flags used by the army up to the 1812 campaign followed different patterns than the national flag, keeping the colors though.

I think it was after 1812 that the national and army flags became of the same pattern.

Already in 1791 the three colour appaear at the border of the regimental colour of first battalion as well as a small rectancular in the upper close to the pole part of the colour itself.

The tricolour as we know it was adopted as the flag attached to the Eagle in 1812. It was covered in gold embroidery and was quite an item. Have a look here.

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The navy flew the tricolour as an ensign from 1794.

In the 18th Century, the principal purpose of national flags was to identify a nation's ships on the high seas (this is the origin of the first "Stars & Stripes" with the circle of 13 stars, which was devised by the naval committee of Congress).

The use of such flags on land was usually limited to signifying possession of military establishments, primarily fortresses and especially those at the entrances to harbours as it indicated to seafarers which country they were approaching. I'm fairly sure only republics flew the national flag from public buildings, as monarchies usually marked these with royal badges/flags (in the UK, court buildings still carry the royal crest, prominently on an external wall). Great Britain (United Kingdom from 1801) was one of the few nations to use its national flag – as opposed to the national colours – in a regimental context.