Royal 22nd Regiment de vainqueur"; Refrain: "Vaillants soldats, vos noms dans notre histoire." Royal 22nd Regiment The Royal 22nd Regiment (R22R), or rather the Royal 22 Régiment in both English and French correct usage, and colloquially in English The Van Doos (representing an anglicized pronunciation of the French for twenty-two, "vingt-deux"), or, in French, le Vingt-deuxième, is an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. The mostly francophone regiment comprises three Regular Force battalions, two Primary Reserve battalions, and a band, making it the largest regiment in the Canadian Army. The "maison-mère" or home of the regiment is La Citadelle in Quebec City and
Positional notation expressed as a multiple of twenty. For example, eighty-two is "quatre-vingt-deux" (literally, four twenty[s] [and] two), while ninety-two is "quatre-vingt-douze" (literally, four twenty[s] [and] twelve). In Old French, forty was expressed as two twenties and sixty was three twenties, so that fifty-three was expressed as two twenties [and] thirteen, and so on. In English the same base-20 counting appears in the use of "scores". Although mostly historical it is occasionally used colloquially. Verse 10 of Pslam 90 in the King James Version of the Bible starts: "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason