Battalion Chief

Machine-translated from the French article

The term "chef de bataillon" is one of the designations of the rank of commandant, used in the French Army. The commandant is called "chef de bataillon", after the name of his command in units of the so-called "foot arms": infantry, light infantry (now a subdivision of the infantry arm), engineers, signals. In units of the so-called "mounted arms", the term "chef d'escadron" is used in the train des équipages, the artillery and the Gendarmerie, and "chef d'escadrons" — where the word escadron is put in the plural — in the armoured cavalry arm.