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MILITARY PERSONNEL

J. F. C. Fuller

1878 - 1966

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Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller (1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, known as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare. With 45 books and many articles, he was a highly prolific author whose ideas reached army officers and the interested public. He explored the business of fighting, in terms of the relationship between warfare and social, political, and economic factors in the civilian sector. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. F. C. Fuller has received more than 406,696 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). J. F. C. Fuller is the 977th most popular military personnel (down from 955th in 2019), the 1,817th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,858th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

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  • 2.51

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 977 out of 1,468. Before him are Abraham Duquesne, John Basilone, Roussel de Bailleul, David Petraeus, Federico Gravina, and Ernst-Günther Baade. After him are Alexander Matrosov, John Fastolf, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Alexey Kaledin, and Drogo of Hauteville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 84. Before him are Zabel Yesayan, José Miaja, Paul Hazard, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Grigory Petrovsky, and Maurice René Fréchet. After him are Alexander Tamanian, Charles Joughin, Michel Théato, Theodoros Pangalos, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and Tullio Serafin. Among people deceased in 1966, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 85. Before him are Robert Rossen, Hermann Scherchen, Wieland Wagner, Otto von Knobelsdorff, Venceslau Brás, and Väinö Tanner. After him are Philipp Frank, Homi J. Bhabha, Arthur Percival, Nikolay Cherkasov, Camilo Torres Restrepo, and John of Shanghai and San Francisco.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 1,817 out of 7,765. Before him are Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Michael Jackson (1942), Eric Woolfson (1945), Spencer Perceval (1762), John Lydon (1956), and Stephen Langton (1150). After him are Tim Rice (1944), John Fastolf (1380), Phil Lynott (1949), Charles Barry (1795), Henry Percy (1364), and Ian Callaghan (1942).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, J. F. C. Fuller ranks 38. Before him are John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), Robert Maynard (1684), Robert Blake (1599), FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Arthur Rostron (1869), and Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717). After him are John Fastolf (1380), Arthur Percival (1887), Henry Tandey (1891), William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729), John Paul Jones (1747), and Gregor MacGregor (1786).

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