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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 1,937,163 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Braxton Bragg is the 1,276th most popular military personnel (up from 1,298th in 2019), the 4,353rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,415th in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Braxton Bragg ranks 1,276 out of 1,468. Before him are Xie Lingyun, Erich Bey, Katō Yoshiaki, August Kork, Otto Deßloch, and Koos de la Rey. After him are Horatio Gates, Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Caupolicán, Mikhail Diterikhs, Alfons Rebane, and Albrecht Brandi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Braxton Bragg ranks 50. Before him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Branwell Brontë, Joseph Poelaert, Adolphe Alphand, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, and Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard. After him are Richard Dadd, Georgi Pulevski, Francesco de Sanctis, Édouard Deldevez, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, and Ernest Hébert. Among people deceased in 1876, Braxton Bragg ranks 37. Before him are Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Aleksander Fredro, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Karl Eichwald, Giacomo Antonelli, and Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg. After him are Josef Kriehuber, Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, August Wilhelm Ambros, Anna Russell, Ferdinand Freiligrath, and Janko Kráľ.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Braxton Bragg ranks 4,353 out of 18,182. Before him are William R. King (1786), Mark Tobey (1890), James Salter (1925), Michael Moriarty (1941), Sarah Rafferty (1972), and John Spencer (1946). After him are Laurie Metcalf (1955), Ryan Murphy (1965), A. Merritt (1884), Sewall Wright (1889), Lew Ayres (1908), and Queen Latifah (1970).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Braxton Bragg ranks 77. Before him are Herman Kahn (1922), Eddie Slovik (1920), Frank Serpico (1936), Carlos Hathcock (1942), James Longstreet (1821), and Joseph Hooker (1814). After him are Nelson A. Miles (1839), Courtney Hodges (1887), Christine Jorgensen (1926), Hal Moore (1922), Carl Spaatz (1891), and J. E. B. Stuart (1833).

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