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See also:PIERRE CUILLIER See also:PERRON (1755-1834) , See also:French military adventurer in See also:India, whose name was originally See also:Pierre Cuillier, was See also:born in 1755 at See also:Chateau du See also:Loire in See also:France, the son of a See also:cloth See also:merchant . In 1780 he went out to India as a sailor on a French See also:frigate, deserted on the See also:Malabar See also:coast, and made his way to upper India, where he enlisted in the rana of Gohad's See also:corps under a Scotsman named Sangster . In 1790 he took` service under De See also:Boigne, and was appointed to the command of his second See also:brigade . In 1795 he assisted to win the See also:battle of Kardla against the See also:nizam of See also:Hyderabad, and on De Boigne's retirement became See also:commander-in-See also:chief of Sindhia's See also:army . At the battle of Malpura (1800) he defeated the See also:Rajput forces . After the defeat of See also:Ujjain (1891) he refused to send his troops to the aid of Sindhia . His treachery on this occasion shook his position, and on the outbreak of See also:war between Sindhia and the See also:British in 1803 See also:Perron was superseded and fled to the British See also:camp . In the battles of See also:Delhi, See also:Laswari and See also:Assaye, Perron's battalions were completely destroyed by See also:Lord See also:Lake and See also:Sir See also:Arthur See also:Wellesley . He returned to France with a large See also:fortune, and died in 1834 . See H . See also:Compton, See also:European Military Adventurers of Hindustan (1892) . |
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