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Adolphe Niel

1802 - 1869

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Adolphe Niel (4 October 1802 – 13 August 1869) was a French Army general and statesman. He was born at Muret, Haute-Garonne and entered the École Polytechnique in 1821. Niel entered the engineer school at Metz, became lieutenant in the Engineers Corps in 1827, and captain in 1833. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolphe Niel has received more than 38,508 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolphe Niel is the 1,533rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,328th in 2019), the 3,651st most popular biography from France (down from 3,436th in 2019) and the 135th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adolphe Niel ranks 1,533 out of 2,058. Before him are Douglas Bader, Henry Maitland Wilson, Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, Herman Kahn, Henri Saint Cyr, and Nina Lobkovskaya. After him are Pedro Teixeira, Henry III, Count of Bar, Walter Bedell Smith, Endel Puusepp, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, and Nikolaos Trikoupis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Adolphe Niel ranks 42. Before him are Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Niedermeyer, Benoît Fourneyron, Adolphe d'Archiac, and Edwin Landseer. After him are August Friedrich Pott, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, Yuriy Venelin, Eugène Flachat, and Robert Chambers. Among people deceased in 1869, Adolphe Niel ranks 34. Before him are Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Julian Fontana, Juraj Haulik, Juan Almonte, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk. After him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Ōmura Masujirō, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Johann Georg von Hahn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adolphe Niel ranks 3,651 out of 6,770. Before him are Laetitia Casta (1978), François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588), Apollonie Sabatier (1822), Georges Lacombe (1868), Julie d'Aubigny (1670), and Daniel Duval (1944). After him are Michel Garicoïts (1797), William Gallas (1977), Nicole Courcel (1931), Louis Lumière (1864), Alain Bashung (1947), and Frédéric Diefenthal (1968).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Adolphe Niel ranks 135. Before him are Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766), Louis Faidherbe (1818), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Georges Mouton (1770), Honoré Charles Reille (1775), and Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753). After him are Michel-Joseph Maunoury (1847), Erich Buschenhagen (1895), Jean Decoux (1884), Henri Dentz (1881), Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), and Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (1889).

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