Philippe Colombe
{{Short description|French artillery commander for Safavid Empire}}
Philippe Colombe (died March 1722) was a French army officer, most famous for his command of the Safavid artillery corps during the reign of Soltan Husayn.
Biography
A native of Paris, Colombe had served in the army of the Russian Tsardom before moving to Safavid Iran.{{sfn|Floor|Herzig|2015|page=319}} Entering service under Sultan Husayn (r. 1694–1722), Colombe came to be at the head of the empire's military ordnance.{{sfn|Fisher|Jackson|Lockhart|1986|page=584}} During the decisive battle against the rebellious Afghans in March 1722, at Gulnabad, Colombe was in command of the artillery corps (although he was nominally under Ahmad Khan, the tupchi-bashi), which hosted 24 cannons.{{sfn|Floor|Herzig|2015|page=319}} During the battle, Colombe and his corps were left without protection, which resulted in them getting frantically attacked by the Afghans, and killed.{{sfn|Floor|Herzig|2015|page=319}}
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- {{cite book|editor1-last=Fisher|editor1-first=William Bayne|editor2-last=Jackson|editor2-first=Peter|editor3-last=Lockhart|editor3-first=Lawrence|title=The Cambridge History of Iran (Vol. 6)|date=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0521200943|chapter=The Safavid Period}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Floor|editor-first1=Willem|editor-last2=Herzig|editor-first2=Edmund|authorlink2=Edmund Herzig|title=Iran and the World in the Safavid Age|date=2015|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1780769905|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZNpBgAAQBAJ&q=mirimanidze}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Mikaberidze|editor-first1=Alexander|authorlink1=Alexander Mikaberidze|title=Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia (Vol. 1)|date=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1598843378|page=352}}
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