MILITARY PERSONNEL

George Meade

1815 - 1872

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George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a United States Army Major General who commanded the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865. He fought in many of the key battles of the Eastern theater and defeated the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was born in Cádiz, Spain, to a wealthy Philadelphia merchant family and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Meade has received more than 1,487,950 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). George Meade is the 949th most popular military personnel (up from 1,092nd in 2019), the 753rd most popular biography from Spain (up from 893rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Spanish Military Personnel.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of George Meades by language

Over the past year George Meade has had the most page views in the with 198,157 views, followed by German (14,709), and Spanish (6,896). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (95.28%), Slovenian (95.03%), and Esperanto (82.74%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, George Meade ranks 949 out of 2,058. Before him are Radko Dimitriev, Juliusz Rómmel, Adelbert Schulz, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Anatoly Stessel, and Hermann Breith. After him are Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Winrich von Kniprode, Shurahbil ibn Hasana, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Ilmari Juutilainen, and Hans von Obstfelder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, George Meade ranks 29. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Anthony Trollope, Eugène Marin Labiche, Andrew Graham, Wilhelm Peters, and Horace Wells. After him are Ii Naosuke, Alexander von Middendorff, James Curtis Hepburn, Jean-Delphin Alard, Charles Renouvier, and John A. Macdonald. Among people deceased in 1872, George Meade ranks 29. Before him are Vladimir Dal, William H. Seward, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, John Bowring, and Handrij Zejler. After him are Jean-Marie Duhamel, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Avram Iancu, Petar Preradović, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, and Alfred Clebsch.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, George Meade ranks 753 out of 3,355. Before him are Ferran Olivella (1936), Josep Lluís Sert (1902), Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532), Elsa Pataky (1976), Baldomero Espartero (1793), and Wifred II, Count of Barcelona (900). After him are Fernando de Rojas (1470), Antonio de la Cruz (1947), Félix Candela (1910), Rossy de Palma (1964), Josep Maria Fusté (1941), and Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne (1177).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Spain

Among military personnels born in Spain, George Meade ranks 14. Before him are Antonio Tejero (1932), Inés Suárez (1507), Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz (1526), Serena (365), José Miaja (1878), and Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma (1553). After him are Gaius Laelius (-300), Gonzalo Guerrero (1470), Blas de Lezo (1689), Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1550), José Millán-Astray (1879), and Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1475).

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