MILITARY PERSONNEL

Guillaume Philibert Duhesme

1766 - 1815

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Guillaume Philibert, 1st Count Duhesme, (French pronunciation: [ɡijom filibɛʁ dyɛm]) born on the 7th July 1766 in Mercurey (formerly Bourgneuf), Burgundy, killed on the 20th June 1815 near Waterloo, was a French general, politician and writer during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. He was a commander of the Imperial Guard, Governor of Catalonia and a Peer of France. Napoleon wrote that "he was a fearless soldier, covered with wounds and of the greatest bravery, an accomplished general, who always stood firm in good and bad fortune". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume Philibert Duhesme has received more than 45,144 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Philibert Duhesme is the 1,434th most popular military personnel (down from 1,181st in 2019), the 3,435th most popular biography from France (down from 3,062nd in 2019) and the 129th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme ranks 1,434 out of 2,058. Before him are Alexander Kutepov, Nicholas, Count of Salm, Karl von Einem, Anthony McAuliffe, Sergei Shtemenko, and Reinhard Hardegen. After him are William Calley, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Alan Cunningham, Alfons Rebane, James Longstreet, and Maurice d'Elbée.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme ranks 27. Before him are Robert Darwin, Samuel Frederick Gray, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Joseph Weigl, John Leslie, and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel. After him are Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Jacob Perkins, Wilhelm Hisinger, Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, John Farey Sr., and William Townsend Aiton. Among people deceased in 1815, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme ranks 23. Before him are Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Torii Kiyonaga, Matthias Claudius, Solomon II of Imereti, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, and Carl Johan Adlercreutz. After him are Francesco Bartolozzi, John Singleton Copley, Johann Peter Salomon, William Nicholson, Jakub Jan Ryba, and William Roxburgh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme ranks 3,435 out of 6,770. Before him are Camille Guérin (1872), Marcel Granet (1884), Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861), Régine Pernoud (1909), Frédéric Mitterrand (1947), and Diana Vreeland (1903). After him are Evgeny Paton (1870), Tignous (1957), Joseph Canteloube (1879), Isaac René Guy le Chapelier (1754), Harry Schell (1921), and Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme ranks 129. Before him are Adolphe Pégoud (1889), François de Créquy (1625), Amédée Courbet (1827), Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1798), Violette Szabo (1921), and Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor (1770). After him are Louis Faidherbe (1818), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Georges Mouton (1770), Honoré Charles Reille (1775), Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753), and Adolphe Niel (1802).

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