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Bailli de Suffren

Pierre André de Suffren
Suffren.jpg
Bust of Suffren by Houdon
Nickname(s) Jupiter
Born (1729-07-17)17 July 1729
Château de Saint-Cannat
Died 8 December 1788(1788-12-08) (aged 59)
Paris
Buried at Ashes defiled in 1793 by the Revolutionaries
Allegiance Sovereign Military Order of Malta
 Kingdom of France
Service/branch  French Navy
Years of service 1743–1784
Rank

Vice-admiral in the French Navy

General of the Galley of Malta
Unit Indian Ocean squadron
Battles/wars

War of the Austrian Succession:

Seven Years' War:

Anglo-French War:

Awards

Ordre du Saint-Esprit Chevalier ribbon.svg Order of the Holy Spirit

Order of Saint-John of Jérusalem

Vice-admiral in the French Navy

War of the Austrian Succession:

Seven Years' War:

Anglo-French War:

Ordre du Saint-Esprit Chevalier ribbon.svg Order of the Holy Spirit

Admiral comte Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, bailli de Suffren (17 July 1729 – 8 December 1788), French admiral. He was most famous for his campaign in the Indian Ocean, in which he fought a series of intense and evenly matched battles for supremacy against the established British power there, led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes. Alfred T. Mahan praised Suffren as "a very great man" and evaluated him in terms he usually reserved for praising decisively victorious admirals.

Pierre André de Suffren was born on July 17, 1729 in the Château de Saint-Cannat in the present département of Bouches-du-Rhône. He was the third son of Paul de Suffren (1679–1756), the marquis de Saint Tropez, head of a family of nobles of Provence. He grew up at the Hôtel de Suffren, a hôtel particulier located at 40 on the Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence.


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