MILITARY PERSONNEL

Bernardo de Gálvez

1746 - 1786

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Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez (23 July 1746 – 30 November 1786) was a Spanish military leader and government official who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain. A career soldier since the age of 16, Gálvez was a veteran of several wars across Europe, the Americas, and North Africa. While governor of Louisiana, he supported the colonists and their French allies in the American Revolutionary War, helping facilitate vital supply lines and frustrate British operations in the Gulf Coast. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernardo de Gálvez has received more than 529,521 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernardo de Gálvez is the 1,415th most popular military personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Bernardo de Gálvez ranks 1,415 out of 2,058. Before him are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, Godfrid, Duke of Frisia, Bardas Phokas the Elder, Werner Voss, and Adrian Carton de Wiart. After him are Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Alexander Chavchavadze, Dmitry Lelyushenko, Marc Mitscher, Nikolai Nebogatov, and Miguel Grau Seminario.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Bernardo de Gálvez ranks 27. Before him are Izabela Czartoryska, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Infanta Benedita of Portugal, Antonio Rosetti, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Jean-Sifrein Maury. After him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, William Curtis, Charles Cameron, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Robert R. Livingston, and André Thouin. Among people deceased in 1786, Bernardo de Gálvez ranks 15. Before him are Eva Ekeblad, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, Hans Joachim von Zieten, Pierre Poivre, and Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. After him are Thomas Wright, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Nathanael Greene, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Gustaf Lundberg, and Jean-Étienne Guettard.

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