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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 133,354 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine is the 904th most popular military personnel (up from 916th in 2019), the 2,392nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,491st in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 904 out of 1,468Before him are Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Isamu Chō, Clearchus of Sparta, Semyon Kurkotkin, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, and Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Sergey Kamenev, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Hōjō Ujiyasu, Harold Bride, Hans von Obstfelder, and Takeo Takagi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 15Before him are Johann Jacob Schweppe, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann van Beethoven, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, and Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein. After him are James Boswell, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Matthias Claudius, Juan Ignacio Molina, Anders Johan Lexell, and John Latham. Among people deceased in 1793, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 25Before him are Fletcher Christian, Jacques Cathelineau, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, John Hunter, and Pietro Nardini. After him are Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, John Michell, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Armand Louis de Gontaut, and William Hudson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 2,392 out of 6,011Before him are Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Camille Doncieux (1847), François Lemoyne (1688), Jacques Villon (1875), John I, Duke of Brittany (1217), and Margaret of Foix (1453). After him are Albert Gleizes (1881), Charles Pathé (1863), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Sabine Weiss (1924), Alexandre Desplat (1961), and Marcel Achard (1899).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 95Before him are Jacques Massu (1908), Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784), Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765), Hans von Salmuth (1888), Rudolf Schmundt (1896), and Marcellin Marbot (1782). After him are Jacques Doriot (1898), Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765), Tarrare (1772), Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762), Abraham Duquesne (1610), and Roussel de Bailleul (1100).