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PIERRE CUILLIER PERRON (1755-1834)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 184 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE CUILLIER PERRON (1755-1834)  , French military adventurer in India, whose name was originally
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Pierre Cuillier, was born in 1755 at Chateau du
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Loire in France, the son of a
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cloth merchant . In 1780 he went out to India as a sailor on a French
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frigate, deserted on the
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Malabar coast, and made his way to upper India, where he enlisted in the rana of Gohad's corps under a Scotsman named Sangster . In 1790 he took` service under De Boigne, and was appointed to the command of his second brigade . In 1795 he assisted to win the
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battle of Kardla against the
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nizam of Hyderabad, and on De Boigne's retirement became
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commander-in-chief of Sindhia's army . At the battle of Malpura (1800) he defeated the
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Rajput forces . After the defeat of 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 war between Sindhia and the
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British in 1803 Perron was superseded and fled to the British camp . In the battles of
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Delhi,
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Laswari and
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Assaye, Perron's battalions were completely destroyed by Lord Lake and
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Sir Arthur Wellesley . He returned to France with a large fortune, and died in 1834 . See H . Compton,
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European Military Adventurers of Hindustan (1892) .

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