MILITARY PERSONNEL

Cristóvão da Gama

1516 - 1542

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Cristóvão da Gama (c. 1516 – 29 August 1542), anglicised as Christopher da Gama, was a Portuguese military commander who led a Portuguese army of 400 musketeers to assist Ethiopia that faced Islamic Jihad from the Adal Sultanate led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. He, along with the allied Ethiopian army, was victorious against Adal forces in four battles, but he was seriously wounded in his last battle and was captured, tortured, and executed by Imam Ahmad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cristóvão da Gama has received more than 238,762 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Cristóvão da Gama is the 967th most popular military personnel (down from 897th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 178th in 2019) and the most popular Portuguese Military Personnel.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.08

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 967 out of 2,058. Before him are Marcellin Marbot, Charles Robert Jenkins, Jean-Étienne Championnet, Reiner Stahel, Hellmuth Stieff, and Alexander Rodimtsev. After him are Georg von der Marwitz, Jacques Doriot, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Mikhail Katukov, and Hans Cramer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1516, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 9. Before him are Bayinnaung, Margaret Leijonhufvud, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Tabinshwehti, Hieronymus Wolf, and André Thevet. After him are Realdo Colombo, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Söyembikä of Kazan, John Foxe, Emilie of Saxony, and Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox. Among people deceased in 1542, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 13. Before him are Dosso Dossi, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Sayyida al Hurra, Peter Henlein, Thomas Wyatt, and Malik Muhammad Jayasi. After him are Diego de Almagro II, Nikolaus Federmann, Girolamo Aleandro, Ludwig Senfl, Gasparo Contarini, and Pedro Reinel.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 187 out of 633. Before him are Bartolomeu Perestrello (1400), Luís Fróis (1532), Almeida Garrett (1799), Nuno Gonçalves (1500), Beatrice of Portugal (1347), and Alexandrina of Balazar (1904). After him are Francisco de Sá Carneiro (1934), Estêvão Gomes (1484), Tomé Pires (1468), Pedro Damiano (1480), John, Constable of Portugal (1400), and José Saraiva Martins (1932).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Portugal

Among military personnels born in Portugal, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 1. After him are Pedro Teixeira (1585), Infante João, Duke of Beja (1842), Estácio de Sá (1520), and Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465).

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