MILITARY PERSONNEL

Irvin McDowell

1818 - 1885

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Irvin McDowell (October 15, 1818 – May 4, 1885) was an American army officer. He is best known for his defeat in the First Battle of Bull Run, the first large-scale battle of the American Civil War. In 1862, he was given command of the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irvin McDowell has received more than 389,992 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Irvin McDowell is the 1,781st most popular military personnel (down from 1,406th in 2019), the 6,678th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,321st in 2019) and the 113th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Over the past year Irvin McDowell has had the most page views in the with 45,798 views, followed by Chinese (2,895), and German (2,387). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (213.40%), Swedish (53.57%), and Hebrew (49.26%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Irvin McDowell ranks 1,781 out of 2,058Before him are Gustaf Dyrssen, Richard Bong, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Robert Anderson, Kanhoji Angre, and Yekaterina Zelenko. After him are Hans von Rosen, Constantine Diogenes, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, George W. Casey Jr., Mizuno Tadakuni, and Harold Rainsford Stark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Irvin McDowell ranks 80Before him are José María Castro Madriz, Joseph Roumanille, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, František Ladislav Rieger, Jan Heemskerk, and Wilhelm Camphausen. After him are William M. Evarts, Ilya Berezin, Dimitrie Brătianu, Henry Litolff, Heinrich Zollinger, and Ludwig Traube. Among people deceased in 1885, Irvin McDowell ranks 69Before him are Ernest Goüin, Ernst Falkbeer, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, C. A. Rosetti, Andrea Maffei, and Wilhelm Camphausen. After him are Karamchand Gandhi, Gaudenzio Marconi, Joseph-Alfred Serret, William Henry Vanderbilt, Bernhard Horwitz, and Juan Bautista Topete.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Irvin McDowell ranks 6,678 out of 20,380Before him are Gary L. Francione (1954), Bill Condon (1955), Mary Carew (1913), Carol Ann Susi (1952), Mark L. Lester (1946), and Ira Murchison (1933). After him are Jim Harrison (1937), Wendie Malick (1950), Emmett Toppino (1909), Bill Joy (1954), Melissa Rauch (1980), and Roy Eldridge (1911).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Irvin McDowell ranks 113Before him are Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806), Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883), James Jesus Angleton (1917), John Pope (1822), Richard Bong (1920), and Robert Anderson (1805). After him are Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Peter Pace (1945), John F. Reynolds (1820), Richard S. Ewell (1817), Richard Marcinko (1940), and John Eisenhower (1922).