Joseph Perrin

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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 21 March 1794 he was appointed chef de brigade in the 94th Infantry Regiment; then he became commander of the 2nd Line Infantry Half-Brigade on 19 April 1796. He was promoted to provisional brigade general on 5 June 1800 but he died on 9 June 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

• List of French generals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

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. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
• 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..