Jacques François Perroud (1770 – 1822) was a French privateer, famed for his capture of the large East Indiaman Lord Nelson on 14 August 1803, and for his spirited defence of his 32-gun Bellone against the overwhelming 74-gun ship of the line HMS Powerful during the Action of 9 July 1806.
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1770
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1822 (aged 51)
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