POLITICIAN

Ignacio Zaragoza

1829 - 1862

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Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín (March 24, 1829 – September 8, 1862) was a Mexican Army officer and politician. He is best known for leading a Mexican army of 3,791 men which defeated a 5,730-strong force of French troops at the battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 during the second French intervention in Mexico. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignacio Zaragoza has received more than 532,226 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Ignacio Zaragoza is the 10,293rd most popular politician (down from 9,459th in 2019), the 3,620th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,447th in 2019) and the 233rd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 10,293 out of 19,576Before him are Odo de St Amand, Vitale II Michiel, James Connolly, Esther Hayut, Skandagupta, and Shu-Sin. After him are Aureolus of Aragon, Edith Wilson, Félix Gaillard, Franz Schalk, Nicolas Grunitzky, and Tribuno Memmo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 37Before him are Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Franz Reuleaux, Allan Octavian Hume, Konrad Duden, Jean-Jacques Henner, and Moritz Cantor. After him are Laura Bridgman, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Carl Schurz, José de Alencar, Mikayel Nalbandian, and Prince William of Baden. Among people deceased in 1862, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 30Before him are Johann Nestroy, Carl Ludwig Blume, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, Justinus Kerner, and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow. After him are Albert Sidney Johnston, Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Francisco Balagtas, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Albrecht Adam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 3,620 out of 20,380Before him are Gina Gershon (1962), James Denton (1963), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Ronnie Van Zant (1948), Maurice Sendak (1928), and John Krasinski (1979). After him are Edith Wilson (1872), Marsha Hunt (1917), Anne Revere (1903), Alexander Vandegrift (1887), Jonathan Franzen (1959), and Chris O'Donnell (1970).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 233Before him are Lou Henry Hoover (1874), Dolley Madison (1768), Kamehameha V (1830), Bobby Jones (1902), Frank Caprio (1936), and Charles Evans Hughes (1862). After him are Edith Wilson (1872), Gabriel Almond (1911), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Robert Zoellick (1953), Ross Perot (1930), and Kamehameha IV (1834).