Suffren Saint Tropes

Suffren Saint-Tropes, PIERRE ANDRE DE (1729-88), a distinguished French naval officer. After nearly 40 years' service against the English he was, in 1781, placed at the head of a squadron designed to not against them in the East Indies. He engaged in several well-contested but indecisive battles, and captured Trincoma1ee, In 1784 he returned to Paris. He was Bailli of the Knights Hospitallers.