Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon [SEP] country of citizenship
Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, 1st Marquis de Grenade (31 May 1754 – 25 December 1818) was Marshal of France.
Early life.
He was born to a family of small nobility in Grenade-sur-Garonne, Languedoc. After a "roturier" appointment in the grenadier corps of the Aquitaine Regiment, he retired to his estate. Pérignon welcomed the French Revolution, and gained a seat in the Legislative Assembly (1791), where he sat on the Right, but
saw both Dugommier and de la Union killed in action. Dominique-Catherine de Pérignon took command of the French and led them to victory. Figueres and its Sant Ferran Fortress quickly fell to the French with 9,000 prisoners.
Pierre François Sauret successfully concluded the Siege of Roses on 4 February 1795. Pérignon was replaced in army command by Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer. On 14 June 1795, Schérer was defeated near the river Fluvià by José de Urrutia y de las Casas at the Battle of Bascara. After peace was signed,