MILITARY PERSONNEL

Braxton Bragg

1817 - 1876

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Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was an American army officer during the Second Seminole War and Mexican–American War and Confederate general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, serving in the Western Theater. His most important role was as commander of the Army of Mississippi, later renamed the Army of Tennessee, from June 1862 until December 1863. Bragg, a native of Warrenton, North Carolina, was educated at West Point and became an artillery officer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Braxton Bragg has received more than 2,077,030 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Braxton Bragg is the 1,524th most popular military personnel (down from 1,275th in 2019), the 4,635th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,341st in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Braxton Bragg ranks 1,524 out of 2,058. Before him are Kijirō Nambu, Alvin York, Courtney Hodges, Patrick Gordon, Johann von Werth, and Dmitry Milyutin. After him are Józef Chłopicki, Murat Karayılan, Douglas Bader, Henry Maitland Wilson, Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, and Herman Kahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Braxton Bragg ranks 53. Before him are Joseph Poelaert, Francesco de Sanctis, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, and Georgi Pulevski. After him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Adolphe Yvon, Édouard Deldevez, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Konstantin Aksakov, and Marie-Eugénie de Jésus. Among people deceased in 1876, Braxton Bragg ranks 41. Before him are Aleksander Fredro, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Karl Eichwald, Johann Löwenthal, Josef Kriehuber, and Hermann Goetz. After him are Joseph von Führich, Ferdinand Freiligrath, August Wilhelm Ambros, Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Joseph Böhm, and Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Braxton Bragg ranks 4,635 out of 20,380. Before him are Kenny Ortega (1950), Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), Jack Albertson (1907), Leighton Meester (1986), Jeffrey Wright (1965), and Margaret Hamilton (1902). After him are Joe Dallesandro (1948), Robert Montgomery (1904), Savanna Samson (1967), Julie Adams (1926), Marilyn Horne (1934), and D'arcy Wretzky (1968).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Braxton Bragg ranks 77. Before him are Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), James M. Gavin (1907), William Guarnere (1923), Nathanael Greene (1742), Alvin York (1887), and Courtney Hodges (1887). After him are Herman Kahn (1922), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Benjamin Briggs (1835), Melvin Purvis (1903), Joseph Hooker (1814), and William D. Leahy (1875).

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