MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

1745 - 1818

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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is memorialized as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court. Point du Sable was of African descent, but little else is known of his early life prior to the 1770s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable has received more than 1,242,790 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is the 1,790th most popular military personnel (down from 1,535th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Haiti (down from 40th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Haitian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 1,790 out of 2,058. Before him are Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, George W. Casey Jr., Mizuno Tadakuni, Harold Rainsford Stark, András Toma, and Myronides. After him are Charles Leclerc, Peter Pace, Józef Kowalski, Dietrich Kraiss, Walter Krueger, and Franz von Werra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 45. Before him are Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Félix María de Samaniego, Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, Timothy Pickering, Hannah More, and Johann Gottfried Köhler. After him are Oliver Ellsworth, John Jeffries, Sydney Parkinson, Madhavrao I, Anthony Wayne, and William Paterson. Among people deceased in 1818, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 40. Before him are Josef Abel, Ivan Kulibin, Martha Christina Tiahahu, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Johann David Wyss, and Henry Lee III. After him are Carl Frederik von Breda, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Arthur St. Clair, and George Rogers Clark.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 41 out of 94. Before him are Élie Lescot (1883), Gérard Latortue (1934), Pierre Nord Alexis (1820), Martial Célestin (1913), Louis Borno (1865), and Michaëlle Jean (1957). After him are Prosper Avril (1937), Dany Laferrière (1953), Ernst Jean-Joseph (1948), Henri Françillon (1946), Wyclef Jean (1969), and Raoul Cédras (1949).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Haiti

Among military personnels born in Haiti, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 2. Before him are Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762).

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