Armée d'Orient
The Armee d' Orient is a name used for various historic units in the French Army, including:
- Armée d'Orient (1798), the French taskforce sent by the French Directory under Bonaparte for an invasion of Egypt in 1798
- Armée d'Orient (1853), the unit sent by Napoleon III to the Crimean War
- the Armée d'Orient (1915–19), the French-led field army fighting in the Balkans during World War I
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