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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

1745 - 1818

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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (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. 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 1,146,382 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is the 1,538th most popular military personnel (down from 1,382nd in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Haiti (down from 34th 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 1,538 out of 1,468. Before him are Dudley Pound, James Joseph Dresnok, John Kourkouas, Sergey Gritsevets, Stanley A. McChrystal, and Afanasy Beloborodov. After him are Lyman Lemnitzer, George Crook, Hossein Salami, Lloyd Fredendall, Hudson Austin, and Stanley Maude.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 41. Before him are Madhavrao I, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Félix María de Samaniego, Benjamin Rush, Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, and Timothy Pickering. After him are John Jeffries, Oliver Ellsworth, Anthony Wayne, William Paterson, Samuel Hearne, and Sydney Parkinson. Among people deceased in 1818, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 40. Before him are Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Ivan Kulibin, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Henry Lee III, and Johann David Wyss. After him is George Rogers Clark.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 40 out of 80. Before him are Jacques Roumain (1907), Louis Borno (1865), Chibly Langlois (1958), Dany Laferrière (1953), Ernst Jean-Joseph (1948), and Wyclef Jean (1969). After him are Prosper Avril (1937), Marc Bazin (1932), Michèle Pierre-Louis (1947), Gérard Latortue (1934), Joe Gaetjens (1924), and Jocelerme Privert (1953).

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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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