MILITARY PERSONNEL

James Wolfe

1727 - 1759

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James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec. The son of a distinguished general, Edward Wolfe, he received his first commission at a young age and saw extensive service in Europe during the War of the Austrian Succession. His service in Flanders and in Scotland, where he took part in the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion, brought him to the attention of his superiors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Wolfe has received more than 1,221,685 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). James Wolfe is the 1,115th most popular military personnel (down from 1,051st in 2019), the 1,905th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,975th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, James Wolfe ranks 1,115 out of 2,058. Before him are Tatya Tope, Thermantia, Charles Mangin, Georgios Grivas, Mineichi Koga, and Gylippus. After him are August Schmidhuber, Franz Moritz von Lacy, Richard Heidrich, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, and Fritz-Julius Lemp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, James Wolfe ranks 23. Before him are Pasquale Anfossi, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Jean-André Deluc, Philibert Commerson, Horatio Gates, and Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. After him are François-Hubert Drouais, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel, Ivan Shuvalov, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Peter Woulfe, and Andrew Planche. Among people deceased in 1759, James Wolfe ranks 14. Before him are Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Alamgir II, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, and Ewald Christian von Kleist. After him are Sedjefakare, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Jacob Theodor Klein, Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain, and William Collins.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Wolfe ranks 1,905 out of 8,785. Before him are Catherine Ashton (1956), Harry Redknapp (1947), John Hume (1937), Rædwald of East Anglia (550), Mike Leigh (1943), and Ian Hill (1952). After him are Arthur Young (1741), Ronnie Biggs (1929), Julian Sands (1958), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), William Jackson Hooker (1785), and William Kent (1685).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, James Wolfe ranks 42. Before him are Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), John Fastolf (1380), William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729), Horatio Gates (1727), FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), and Arthur Percival (1887). After him are Arthur Rostron (1869), Edward Vernon (1684), Harold Bride (1890), Melita Norwood (1912), Hugh Dowding (1882), and John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886).

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