MILITARY PERSONNEL

George Rogers Clark

1752 - 1818

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George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Virginia militia in Kentucky (then part of Virginia) throughout much of the war. He is best known for his captures of Kaskaskia in 1778 and Vincennes in 1779 during the Illinois campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory (then part of the British Province of Quebec) and earned Clark the nickname of "Conqueror of the Old Northwest". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Rogers Clark has received more than 1,076,395 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). George Rogers Clark is the 1,954th most popular military personnel (down from 1,618th in 2019), the 10,291st most popular biography from United States (down from 10,109th in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, George Rogers Clark ranks 1,954 out of 2,058. Before him are Yuliia Paievska, Franciszek Gągor, Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, Zebulon Pike, Mikhail Tolstykh, and Thomas J. Hudner Jr.. After him are Constand Viljoen, Isa Munayev, Leonid Khabarov, Ruslan Gelayev, Sterling Price, and John Hunt, Baron Hunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, George Rogers Clark ranks 36. Before him are Albrecht Thaer, Antonio Scarpa, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Barnaba Oriani, Palisot de Beauvois, and Gouverneur Morris. After him are John Graves Simcoe, and Philip Freneau. Among people deceased in 1818, George Rogers Clark ranks 44. Before him are Johann David Wyss, Henry Lee III, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, Carl Frederik von Breda, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, and Arthur St. Clair.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Rogers Clark ranks 10,291 out of 20,380. Before him are Wesley Coe (1879), Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (1924), Richard Morris Hunt (1827), Diamond Dallas Page (1956), Marc Blucas (1972), and William Barr (1950). After him are Scott Kelly (1964), Corin Nemec (1971), James Gentle (1904), Billy Mills (1938), Woody Shaw (1944), and Claudio Reyna (1973).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, George Rogers Clark ranks 170. Before him are John Sullivan (1740), Elmo Zumwalt (1920), Lewis H. Brereton (1890), John Sedgwick (1813), Zebulon Pike (1779), and Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (1924). After him are Sterling Price (1809), David Dixon Porter (1813), Naomi Parker Fraley (1921), George Henry Thomas (1816), John Buford (1826), and Leonidas Polk (1806).

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