MILITARY PERSONNEL

Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

1832 - 1914

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Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was a British Victorian era general who became one of the most successful British military commanders of his time. Born in India to an Anglo-Irish family, Roberts joined the East India Company Army and served as a young officer in the Indian Rebellion during which he was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry. He was then transferred to the British Army and fought in the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in which his exploits earned him widespread fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts has received more than 705,676 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts is the 1,510th most popular military personnel (down from 1,205th in 2019), the 447th most popular biography from India (down from 360th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 1,510 out of 2,058. Before him are Georges Mouton, Nathanael Greene, Félix Rodríguez, Alfonso Cano, Franz Bäke, and Pavel Kurochkin. After him are Bernhard Rogge, Joachim von Kortzfleisch, Caupolicán, Gisulf I of Friuli, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Honoré Charles Reille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 58. Before him are Charilaos Trikoupis, Jules Vallès, Mary Ann Cotton, Carl Neumann, Edwin Arnold, and Leslie Stephen. After him are Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Colin Archer, Pavel Chistyakov, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, Sergey Botkin, and Miroslav Tyrš. Among people deceased in 1914, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 83. Before him are John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Dimitrie Sturdza, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Hubertine Auclert, José Evaristo Uriburu, and Frederick Lorz. After him are Altaf Hussain Hali, Theodore Gill, John Murray, Amélie Lundahl, Nils Christoffer Dunér, and Edward Robert Hughes.

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In India

Among people born in India, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 447 out of 1,861. Before him are Abhijit Banerjee (1961), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Sanjeev Kumar (1938), Sucheta Kriplani (1908), Tanuja (1943), and Jhalkaribai (1830). After him are Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), K. D. Jadhav (1926), Fathima Beevi (1927), Fatima Sheikh (1831), and Pingali Venkayya (1876).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ranks 8. Before him are Baji Rao I (1700), Tatya Tope (1814), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Orde Wingate (1903), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), and Sam Manekshaw (1914). After him are John Frost (1912), Somnath Sharma (1923), William Birdwood (1865), Bakht Khan (1797), Bipin Rawat (1958), and John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910).

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