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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Benjamin Briggs

1835 - 1872

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Benjamin Spooner Briggs (April 24, 1835 – likely November 1872) was an experienced American seaman and master mariner. He was the captain of the merchant ship Mary Celeste, which was discovered unmanned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean midway between the Azores and the coast of Portugal on December 4, 1872. The lifeboat was missing, yet the Mary Celeste was still under sail. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Briggs has received more than 138,792 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Briggs is the 1,349th most popular military personnel, the 4,812th most popular biography from United States and the 84th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 15

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  • 1.95

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Benjamin Briggs ranks 1,349 out of 1,468. Before him are Sergei Shtemenko, Ivan Gudovich, J. E. B. Stuart, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, George Browne, and François Perrier. After him are José Enrique Varela, Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Leo Tornikios, Sittas, Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, and Nikolaos Trikoupis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Benjamin Briggs ranks 54. Before him are Felix Draeseke, Grigory Potanin, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, Henri Brisson, Franz Defregger, and Adlai Stevenson I. After him are Kārlis Baumanis, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Antanas Baranauskas, Rain-in-the-Face, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, and Germanus V of Constantinople. Among people deceased in 1872, Benjamin Briggs ranks 45. Before him are Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Horace Greeley, Martin Ohm, Michele Carafa, George Catlin, and Friedrich Welwitsch. After him are Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Hugo von Mohl, Michel Carré, Bedros Tourian, and Richard S. Ewell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Briggs ranks 4,812 out of 18,182. Before him are Judy Collins (1939), J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Nate Thurmond (1941), Dianne Feinstein (1933), Patrick Leahy (1940), and Nikos Galis (1957). After him are Eriq La Salle (1962), Son House (1902), Larry Carlton (1948), Cuba Gooding Jr. (1968), Donella Meadows (1941), and Bobby Driscoll (1937).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Benjamin Briggs ranks 84. Before him are Nelson A. Miles (1839), Courtney Hodges (1887), Christine Jorgensen (1926), Hal Moore (1922), Carl Spaatz (1891), and J. E. B. Stuart (1833). After him are Tommy Franks (1945), William D. Leahy (1875), Richard Marcinko (1940), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Anthony McAuliffe (1898), and George Pickett (1825).

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