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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 307,888 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Charles François Dumouriez is the 327th most popular military personnel (up from 334th in 2019), the 909th most popular biography from France (up from 979th in 2019) and the 35th 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 327 out of 1,468Before him are Andrei Grechko, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Jacques MacDonald, Nearchus, Kirill Meretskov, and Bahram Chobin. After him are Roger de Flor, Walther Wenck, Ivan Paskevich, Iwane Matsui, Sanada Yukimura, and Hugo Sperrle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 4Before 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, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Chalgrin, Charles-François Lebrun, and François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé. Among people deceased in 1823, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 10Before him are Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, Jacques Charles, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Ann Radcliffe, and André-Jacques Garnerin. After him are Abraham-Louis Breguet, Edmund Cartwright, Rafael del Riego, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 909 out of 6,011Before him are George Steiner (1929), Fredegund (545), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), and Claude Chappe (1763). After him are Antoine Arnauld (1612), Maurice Druon (1918), Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), and Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (1292).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Charles François Dumouriez ranks 35Before him are Nicolas Oudinot (1767), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), Robert Nivelle (1856), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), François Joseph Lefebvre (1755), and Jacques MacDonald (1765). After him are Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), Jean-Andoche Junot (1771), Pierre Augereau (1757), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), and Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768).