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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough

1779 - 1869

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Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, (3 November 1779 – 2 March 1869) was a senior British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer at the seizure of the Cape of Good Hope during the French Revolutionary Wars, Gough commanded the 2nd Battalion of the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough has received more than 166,698 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough is the 1,568th most popular military personnel, the 259th most popular biography from Ireland and the 8th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 1,568 out of 1,468. Before him are Don Carlos Buell, Isaac Brock, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Oliver Leese, Gustaf Dyrssen, and John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton. After him are William Alexander Morgan, John Sedgwick, John Abizaid, John Dill, Gilad Shalit, and John C. Pemberton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 34. Before him are Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Washington Allston, Louis de Freycinet, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and Peter Mark Roget. After him are Stephen Decatur, Zebulon Pike, Joseph Story, and Samuel D. Ingham. Among people deceased in 1869, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 52. Before him are Mary Ward, Pyotr Anjou, Edwin Stanton, Peter Mark Roget, Henry Jarvis Raymond, and Michael Sars. After him are Diomidis Kyriakos, Thomas Hodgskin, Charles Sturt, John Bell, Afzal-ud-Daulah, and Robert J. Walker.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 259 out of 501. Before him are Billy Whelan (1935), Diarmait Mac Murchada (1110), Stephen Roche (1959), Patrick O'Connell (1887), Tom Crean (1877), and Geraldine Somerville (1967). After him are Aidan Turner (1983), W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Garret FitzGerald (1926), Terence MacSwiney (1879), Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), and Liam Brady (1956).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 8. Before him are Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), William Brown (1777), Richard Montgomery (1738), George Browne (1698), Alan Cunningham (1887), and Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833). After him are Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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