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Gregorio Perdriel

Gregorio Perdriel (5 May 1785-3 March 1832) was an Argentine colonel who commanded the Regiment of Patricians from 1812 to 1813 during the Argentine War of Independence.

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Gregorio Perdriel was born in Córdoba, Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata in 1785, the grandson of a Frenchman. He was raised in Buenos Airesa nd joined the Sapnish Army in 1806, serving in the Regiment of Patricians and fighting off the British invasion of the Rio de la Plata in 1806. In 1810, he participated in Manuel Belgrano's military expedition to Paraguay, reaching the rank of major. In 1811, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel during the siege of Montevideo, and he was promoted to colonel in 1813 after fighting at the Battle of Tucuman and the Battle of Salta. He returned to Buenos Aires after the defeat at the Battle of Ayohuma and was replaced by Carlos Forest, and he was considered as a replacement for Jose de San Martin as commander of the Army of the Andes after San Martin fell out with the civilian government. In 1816, Perdriel retired from the army after failing to seize power in Mendoza, and he was appointed commander of the fortress of Buenos Aires in 1818 before being sent to the Patagonian border in 1819. He was captured at San Nicolas during the Argentine Civil Wars and was imrpsioned in Buenos Aires until Manuel Pagola's revolution, after which he was discharged in 1822. He sympathized with Gregorio Garcia de Tagle's revolution, but he did not take part. He was elected to the Buenos Aires legislature in 1827 and elected Manuel Dorrego as governor; Dorrego then appointed Perdriel as chief of police. He later resigned during Governor Juan Lavalle's service, and he was briefly exiled to Motnevideo before Juan Jose Viamonte reappointed him police chief in September 1829. He died in 1832 before Juan Manuel de Rosas could promote him to Brigadier General.

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