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'''Pierre Cuillier-Perron''' (1753 to 1755–1834), French military adventurer in [[India]] born Pierre Cuillier (or Cuellier) at Luceau near [[Château-du-Loir]], the son of a cloth merchant. In India, he changed his name to Perron (a diminutive of Pierre). He was generally referred to by his contemporaries and posterity as General Perron.<ref>''Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains'', Paris, 1826, p. 900.</ref><br />
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In 1780 he went out to India as a sailor on a French frigate, deserted on the [[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 [[Benoît de Boigne|De Boigne]], and was appointed to the command of his second brigade.<br />
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In 1795 he assisted the [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] forces to win the battle of Kardla against the ''[[nizam]]'' of [[Hyderabad State|Hyderabad]], and on De Boigne's retirement became commander-in-chief of Maratha general [[Mahadji Sindhia]]'s army. At the [[battle of Malpura]] (1800) he defeated the [[Rajput]] forces.<br />
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After the [[battle of Ujjain]] (1801) he refused to send his troops to the aid of [[Scindia]]. His treachery on this occasion shook his position, and on the outbreak of war between Scindia and the British in 1803 Perron was superseded and fled to the British camp.<br />
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In the battles of [[Battle of Delhi, 1803|Delhi]], [[battle of Laswari|Laswari]], [[Battle of Ally Ghur|Ally Ghur (now Aligarh)]] and [[battle of Assaye|Assaye]], Perron's battalions were completely destroyed by [[Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake|Lord Lake]] and [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Sir Arthur Wellesley]]. He returned to France with a large fortune, and died in 1834.<br />
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==Buildings==<br />
Sir Shah Sulaiman Hall's main Building, which currently serves as the [[Provost (education)|Provost]] Office (Administrative Block), was built by a him in year 1802.<ref name="Thackeray">[http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/gahagan/chapter2.html The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623054041/http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/gahagan/chapter2.html |date=2007-06-23 }}, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2</ref><br />
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The palatial home he built for himself at [[Chinsurah]] was to house Hooghly College ([[Hooghly Mohsin College]]) from 1837 to 1937.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*[[Herbert Eastwick Compton|Herbert Compton]], [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006128308 ''A particular account of the European military adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803''] (1892).<br />
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Perron, Pierre Cuillier|volume=21|pages=183–184}}<br />
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