Pelissier, a French marshal, born near Rouen; was made Duc de Malakoff for storming the Malakoff tower, which led to the fall of Sebastopol in 1855; rose from the ranks to be Governor-General of Algeria, the office he held when he died (1794‒1864).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pelion * Pella