MILITARY PERSONNEL

Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde

1792 - 1863

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Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, (20 October 1792 – 14 August 1863), was a British Army officer. After serving in the Peninsular War and the War of 1812, he commanded the 98th Regiment of Foot during the First Opium War and then commanded a brigade during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. He went on to command the Highland Brigade at the Battle of Alma and with his "thin red line of Highlanders" he repulsed the Russian attack on Balaclava during the Crimean War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde has received more than 355,701 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde is the 1,945th most popular military personnel, the 4,940th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 118th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde ranks 1,945 out of 2,058. Before him are Adrianos Komnenos, Stepan Poltorak, Keith Park, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Thomas Blamey, and Valeriya Gnarovskaya. After him are Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, Lewis H. Brereton, John Sedgwick, Max Horton, Yuliia Paievska, and Franciszek Gągor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde ranks 68. Before him are Vicente Ramón Roca, Thaddeus Stevens, Gulab Singh, Andreas Kalvos, Thomas Bell, and Sarah Moore Grimké. After him are Lowell Mason, John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Thomas Romney Robinson, William Hobson, John Keble, and Thomas Mitchell. Among people deceased in 1863, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde ranks 56. Before him are William John Burchell, Manuel Basilio Bustamante, Nikolai Turczaninow, Juan Francisco de Vidal, Juan Francisco Giró, and Lewis Armistead. After him are Miguel de San Román, John Buford, Earl Van Dorn, Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, John J. Crittenden, and John B. Floyd.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde ranks 4,940 out of 8,785. Before him are Billy Liddell (1922), John Ogilvie (1579), Will Champion (1978), Henry Roscoe (1833), Ann Lee (1967), and R. J. Mitchell (1895). After him are Gary McAllister (1964), Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880), Archibald Menzies (1754), Dave Stewart (1950), Gem Archer (1966), and Iolo Morganwg (1747).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde ranks 118. Before him are John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896), Guy Simonds (1903), Arnold Jackson (1891), George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800), Hubert Gough (1870), and Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862). After him are Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880), Max Horton (1883), Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873), Frederick E. Morgan (1894), Charles James Napier (1782), and Andy McNab (1959).

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