MILITARY PERSONNEL

Charles François Dumouriez

1739 - 1823

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Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl fʁɑ̃swa dy peʁje dymuʁje], 26 January 1739 – 14 March 1823) was a French military officer, minister of Foreign Affairs, minister of War in a Girondin cabinet and army general during the French Revolutionary War. Dumouriez is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 3. With General Kellermann he shared the first French victory at Valmy where the Prussian army was forced to draw back. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles François Dumouriez has received more than 337,637 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Charles François Dumouriez is the 297th most popular military personnel (up from 327th in 2019), the 873rd most popular biography from France (up from 907th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Military Personnel.

Charles François Dumouriez is most famous for being a French general and diplomat during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was appointed to command the French Army of the North and led it to victory in Belgium, but he was accused of treason and executed by guillotine.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 297 out of 2,058. Before him are Jiang Wei, Georges Picquart, Xiahou Dun, Uqba ibn Nafi, Jonas Savimbi, and Karl-Otto Koch. After him are Alois Brunner, Polyperchon, Maurice Benyovszky, Rochus Misch, Meng Tian, and Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 4. Before him are Grigory Potemkin, Charles-Henri Sanson, and Maria Josepha of Bavaria. After him are Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, George Clinton, Charles-François Lebrun, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Chalgrin, and François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé. Among people deceased in 1823, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 8. Before him are Edward Jenner, Pope Pius VII, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, Jacques Charles, and Giovanni Battista Belzoni. After him are Ann Radcliffe, André-Jacques Garnerin, Edmund Cartwright, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Rafael del Riego, and Karl Leonhard Reinhold.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 873 out of 6,770. Before him are Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Adelaide of Maurienne (1092), Victoire of France (1733), Dagobert II (650), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), and Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703). After him are Guntram (532), Clotilde of France (1759), Martin Schongauer (1450), Lucien Laurent (1907), Eleanor of Provence (1223), and Edmond Rostand (1868).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 33. Before him are Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Robert Nivelle (1856), Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), Nicolas Oudinot (1767), and Georges Picquart (1854). After him are Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764), Henri Giraud (1879), and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763).

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