MILITARY PERSONNEL

François Joseph Paul de Grasse

1722 - 1788

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François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly, KM (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a French Navy officer and nobleman. He is best known for his strategically decisive victory over the British while in command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 in the last year of the American Revolutionary War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Joseph Paul de Grasse has received more than 367,112 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). François Joseph Paul de Grasse is the 993rd most popular military personnel (up from 1,005th in 2019), the 2,540th most popular biography from France (up from 2,661st in 2019) and the 101st most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 993 out of 2,058. Before him are René Schneider, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Constantin Prezan, Tōdō Takatora, Matome Ugaki, and Matteo I Visconti. After him are Gaius Laelius, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Alime Abdenanova, Heinrich Bär, Robert Blake, and Nagakura Shinpachi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 16. Before him are Paisius Velichkovsky, Pietro Nardini, Amursana, Leopold Auenbrugger, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Paisius of Hilendar. After him are Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Nicolas Luckner, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, John Burgoyne, Petrus Camper, and Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1788, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 18. Before him are Infante Gabriel of Spain, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Toriyama Sekien, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, and Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg. After him are Pierre André de Suffren, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Charles Wesley, Salomon Gessner, Francesco Zuccarelli, and Mary Delany.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 2,540 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Lefebvre (1919), Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (1448), François-Xavier Fabre (1766), Jean Daniélou (1905), Antoine Louis (1723), and Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761). After him are Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), Philippe Garrel (1948), Jacques Laffitte (1767), Yves Allégret (1907), Georges Cadoudal (1771), and Mathieu Amalric (1965).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 101. Before him are Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765), Marcellin Marbot (1782), Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762), Jacques Doriot (1898), Adolphe Marbot (1781), and Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765). After him are François Joseph Westermann (1751), François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers (1753), Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency (1595), Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), and François Séverin Marceau (1769).

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