Joseph Perrin

Joseph Perrin (28 February 1754 — 9 June 1800 in Genoa, Italy) was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars.

Career

Perrin enlisted in the French army in 1770 as a soldier in the Lorraine Infantry Regiment. He became sergeant major in 1784, second lieutenant in 1790 and lieutenant in 1791; then he was appointed chef de bataillon on 31 December 1793. On March 21, 1794, he was appointed chef de brigade in the 94th Infantry Regiment; then he became commander of the 2nd Line Infantry Half-Brigade on April 19, 1796. He was promoted to provisional brigade general on June 5, 1800, but he died on June 9 from a wound sustained during the Siege of Genoa in Italy.

Family life

He was the son of Agathe Perrin (1724–1781). He first got married around 1780; then he married Catherine Heer (1763–1836) around 1800.

See also

Sources

  • "Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789 - 1814: Eberle to Exelmans". Napoléon-séries. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  • "Napoléon.org.pl" (in Polish). Napoléon.org.
  • Beauvais, Charles Théodore; Parisot, Vincent (January 1822). Victoires, conquêtes, revers et guerres civiles des Français, depuis les Gaulois jusqu’en 1792, tome 26 (in French). C.L.F Panckoucke. p. 132. Retrieved September 13, 2014. .


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