MILITARY PERSONNEL

Charles Lee

1731 - 1782

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Charles Lee (6 February 1732 [O.S. 26 January 1731] – 2 October 1782) was a British-born American military officer who served as a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He also served earlier in the British Army during the Seven Years War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Lee has received more than 59,102 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Charles Lee is the 1,708th most popular military personnel (down from 1,467th in 2019), the 3,170th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,187th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular British Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 59k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Charles Lees by language

Over the past year Charles Lee has had the most page views in the with 14,391 views, followed by Spanish (10,128), and German (10,020). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (48.73%), Danish (44.80%), and Polish (39.10%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles Lee ranks 1,708 out of 2,058Before her are Lawrence Oates, Mutsuhiro Watanabe, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Ivan Maslennikov, Gérard Leman, and Tolmides. After her are Alfred Keller, Felix Graf von Bothmer, James Joseph Dresnok, Peter Cosgrove, Kiichiro Higuchi, and Sefer Halilović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Charles Lee ranks 17Before her are Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Maria Fortunata d'Este, Dirk van der Aa, William Cowper, and Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After her are Victor Louis, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Benjamin Banneker, Catharine Macaulay, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, and Samuel Huntington. Among people deceased in 1782, Charles Lee ranks 33Before her are Christine Kirch, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, José Cadalso, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Martha Jefferson, and Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After her are Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, and Joseph Pickford.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Lee ranks 3,170 out of 8,785Before her are John D. Barrow (1952), John Steiner (1941), Clive Bell (1881), Sophie Kinsella (1969), Jack Goody (1919), and John Colet (1467). After her are Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Kenneth Cranham (1944), Arthur Russell (1886), Quentin Crisp (1908), Arthur Ransome (1884), and Alan Bullock (1914).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Charles Lee ranks 82Before her are Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Timothy Laurence (1955), Roy Urquhart (1901), Tom Phillips (1888), and Lawrence Oates (1880). After her are Frederick Browning (1896), John Benbow (1653), Harry Patch (1898), James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797), Flora Sandes (1876), and Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757).