MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval

1715 - 1789

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Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (15 September 1715 – 9 May 1789) was a French artillery officer and engineer who revolutionised the French cannon, creating a new production system that allowed for lighter, more uniform guns without sacrificing range. His Gribeauval system superseded the de Vallière system. These guns proved essential to French military victories during the Napoleonic Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval has received more than 55,964 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval is the 1,119th most popular military personnel (up from 1,199th in 2019), the 2,837th most popular biography from France (up from 3,111th in 2019) and the 109th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 1,119 out of 2,058. Before him are Mineichi Koga, Gylippus, James Wolfe, August Schmidhuber, Franz Moritz von Lacy, and Richard Heidrich. After him are Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Fritz-Julius Lemp, Matsudaira Hirotada, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, Neoptolemus, and Alexander Matrosov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 14. Before him are Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Dorothea Erxleben, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, and William Watson. After him are Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, and Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1789, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 13. Before him are Jean-Étienne Liotard, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Franz Xaver Richter, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, and Paolo Renier. After him are Petrus Camper, John Cleland, Jakob II Bernoulli, Jafar Khan, Anders Dahl, and Sayed Morad Khan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 2,837 out of 6,770. Before him are Menasseh Ben Israel (1604), Jules Jamin (1818), Mélanie Laurent (1983), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Léon Flameng (1877), and Musidora (1889). After him are Édouard André (1840), Patrick Demarchelier (1943), Claude Autant-Lara (1901), Favorinus (85), Édouard Detaille (1848), and Princess Anne of Orléans (1906).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 109. Before him are François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers (1753), Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency (1595), Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), François Séverin Marceau (1769), and Charles Mangin (1866). After him are Pierre André de Suffren (1729), Drogo of Hauteville (1010), Abraham Duquesne (1610), Roussel de Bailleul (1100), Wilhelm Falley (1897), and Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861).

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