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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Miguel Grau Seminario

1834 - 1879

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Miguel María Grau Seminario (27 July 1834 – 8 October 1879) was the most renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the naval battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific (1879–1884). He was known as el Caballero de los Mares (Spanish for "Gentleman of the Seas") for his kind and chivalrous treatment of defeated enemies and is esteemed by both Peruvians and Chileans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel Grau Seminario has received more than 195,097 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Miguel Grau Seminario is the 1,268th most popular military personnel (down from 1,205th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Peru (up from 61st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Peruvian Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 1,268 out of 1,468. Before him are Wehib Pasha, Aleksander Zawadzki, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Dmitry Lelyushenko, Jean Reynier, and Joseph Hooker. After him are Karl Decker, Xie Lingyun, Erich Bey, Katō Yoshiaki, August Kork, and Otto Deßloch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 49. Before him are Carl Lange, Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, Étienne Laspeyres, Serafino Vannutelli, Adolf Lüderitz, and Piet Joubert. After him are Paul Kummer, Adolph Frank, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Albert Niemann, Petter Adolf Karsten, and Georg Hermann Quincke. Among people deceased in 1879, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 37. Before him are Michel Chevalier, Sergey Solovyov, Nikolai Zaremba, Joseph Poelaert, William Kingdon Clifford, and Joseph Hooker. After him are Anthony Panizzi, Jeanne Jugan, Johann von Lamont, Jakob Dubs, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, and William Froude.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 58 out of 232. Before him are Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836), Manuel Prado Ugarteche (1889), Ramón Castilla (1797), Pedro Castillo (1969), Hernando de Soto Polar (1941), and Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (1943). After him are Luis de Souza Ferreira (1908), Daniel Alomía Robles (1871), Agustín Gamarra (1785), Teodoro Fernández (1913), Augusto B. Leguía (1863), and Óscar R. Benavides (1876).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Peru

Among military personnels born in Peru, Miguel Grau Seminario ranks 2. Before him are Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836).

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