MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

1717 - 1797

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Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. Amherst is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaign to conquer the territory of New France during the Seven Years' War. Under his command, British forces captured the cities of Louisbourg, Quebec City and Montreal, as well as several major fortresses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst has received more than 655,807 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst is the 954th most popular military personnel (up from 967th in 2019), the 1,635th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,795th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ranks 954 out of 2,058. Before him are Anatoly Stessel, Hermann Breith, George Meade, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Winrich von Kniprode, and Shurahbil ibn Hasana. After him are Ilmari Juutilainen, Hans von Obstfelder, Jack Churchill, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Chris Kyle, and Nikolai Berzarin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1717, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ranks 15. Before him are Marie Anne de Mailly, Louis François, Prince of Conti, Horace Walpole, David Garrick, Ebrahim Afshar, and Étienne-Gabriel Morelly. After him are Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Alexander Sumarokov, Molla Panah Vagif, Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg, João de Loureiro, and Ventura Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 1797, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ranks 16. Before him are Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Vilna Gaon, Joseph Wright of Derby, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Horace Walpole, and Pasquale Anfossi. After him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Olaudah Equiano, Wang Zhenyi, Molla Panah Vagif, Ivan Shuvalov, and John Wilkes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ranks 1,635 out of 8,785. Before him are Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), Malo (487), Pasquale Anfossi (1727), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), P. F. Strawson (1919), and Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723). After him are William Etty (1787), Arnold Toynbee (1852), Malcolm Arnold (1921), Helen Allingham (1848), K. K. Downing (1951), and David Yates (1963).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ranks 31. Before him are Bertram Ramsay (1883), Andrew Parker Bowles (1939), Jack Phillips (1887), Robert Maynard (1684), Henry Tandey (1891), and Henry Allingham (1896). After him are John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), Robert Blake (1599), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), George Rooke (1650), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), and John Fastolf (1380).

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