MILITARY PERSONNEL

George Browne

1698 - 1792

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George Browne (Russian: Юрий Юрьевич Броун, Irish: Seoirse de Brún, German: Georg Reichsgraf von Browne, French: Georges de Browne), Count von Browne in the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire (15 June 1698 – 18 February 1792), was an Irish soldier of fortune who became full general in the Russian service. Browne was descended from a family that could trace its descent to the time of William the Conqueror, and had settled in Ireland at a very early period. His immediate ancestors were the Brownes of Camas, Limerick, where he was born 15 June 1698. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Browne has received more than 7,725 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). George Browne is the 1,599th most popular military personnel (down from 1,346th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 146th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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  • 17

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, George Browne ranks 1,599 out of 2,058. Before him are Cort Adeler, Georgi Todorov, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, John de Robeck, Carl Spaatz, and Johann von Tiefen. After him are Smedley Butler, Hermann Boehm, Kiyotake Kawaguchi, Richmond K. Turner, Alfred Saalwächter, and J. E. B. Stuart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, George Browne ranks 18. Before him are Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Pyotr Saltykov, François Francoeur, and Giacomo Ceruti. After him are Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Prokop Diviš, Henry Baker, and Giambattista Lolli. Among people deceased in 1792, George Browne ranks 33. Before him are John Smeaton, John Burgoyne, John Paul Jones, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Adam Gottlob Moltke, and Charles Simon Favart. After him are George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, Frederick North, Lord North, Davit Guramishvili, Paul Möhring, and Samuel Hearne.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Browne ranks 160 out of 549. Before him are Jane Wilde (1821), Ronnie Drew (1934), Edward Sabine (1788), Herbert Brenon (1880), William Orpen (1878), and John de Robeck (1862). After him are Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Ellis (1710), Dorothea Jordan (1761), Veronica Guerin (1958), George Allman (1812), and Ronan Keating (1977).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, George Browne ranks 7. Before him are Peter Lacy (1678), Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), William Brown (1777), Richard Montgomery (1738), Alan Cunningham (1887), and John de Robeck (1862). After him are Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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