MILITARY PERSONNEL

Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine

1740 - 1793

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Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (4 February 1740 – 28 August 1793) was a French general. As a young officer in the French Royal Army, he served in the Seven Years' War. In the American Revolutionary War he joined Rochambeau's Expédition Particulière (Special Expedition) supporting the American colonists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine has received more than 142,042 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine is the 1,258th most popular military personnel (down from 904th in 2019), the 3,093rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,384th in 2019) and the 120th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 1,258 out of 2,058. Before him are Agustina de Aragón, Anne Hilarion de Tourville, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Otto Ciliax, Lucius D. Clay, and Arleigh Burke. After him are Ieronim Uborevich, Holland Smith, Karl Decker, Antonio Luna, Vitalian, and Movses Silikyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 19. Before him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, James Boswell, John Latham, Matthias Claudius, and Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are Johan Tobias Sergel, Juan Ignacio Molina, J. F. Oberlin, Anders Johan Lexell, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, and Johan Andreas Murray. Among people deceased in 1793, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 34. Before him are Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, and Joannicius III of Constantinople. After him are William Hudson, Charles de Bonchamps, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Karl Philipp Moritz, John Michell, and Leopold Hofmann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 3,093 out of 6,770. Before him are Armand Salacrou (1899), Jean-François Revel (1924), Pierre Bézier (1910), Jacques Hamel (1930), Francis Garnier (1839), and Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932). After him are Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836), Serge Dassault (1925), Pascal Bruckner (1948), Claudin de Sermisy (1490), Thomas Corneille (1625), and Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 120. Before him are Wilhelm Falley (1897), Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861), Claude François de Malet (1754), Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), Charles-Denis Bourbaki (1816), and Anne Hilarion de Tourville (1642). After him are Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing (1729), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), Adolphe Pégoud (1889), François de Créquy (1625), Amédée Courbet (1827), and Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1798).

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