MILITARY PERSONNEL

Peter Lacy

1678 - 1751

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Peter Graf von Lacy (Russian: Пётр Петрович Ласси, romanized: Pyotr Petrovich Lassi; English: Pierce Edmond de Lacy; Irish: Peadar (Piarais Éamonn) de Lása; 26 September 1678 – 30 April 1751) was an Irish-born soldier who later served in the Imperial Russian army. Considered one of the most successful Russian Imperial commanders before Rumyantsev and Suvorov, in a military career that spanned half a century he claimed to have participated in 31 campaigns, 18 battles, and 18 sieges. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Lacy has received more than 135,000 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Lacy is the 768th most popular military personnel (up from 856th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 84th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Peter Lacy ranks 768 out of 2,058. Before him are Otozō Yamada, Friedrich Hossbach, Yağısıyan, Princess Pingyang, Meliton Kantaria, and Alexios Apokaukos. After him are Fyodor Kuznetsov, Dan Halutz, Walter Stennes, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Joseph E. Johnston, and Ettore Bastico.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1678, Peter Lacy ranks 7. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor, Amaro Pargo, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, and Filippo Juvarra. After him are Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Abraham Darby I, Jakob Hermann, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. Among people deceased in 1751, Peter Lacy ranks 9. Before him are Frederick I of Sweden, William IV, Prince of Orange, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Louise of Great Britain, Tokugawa Yoshimune, and Jacques I, Prince of Monaco. After him are Christopher Polhem, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, Robert Maynard, Leonard of Port Maurice, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, and Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Peter Lacy ranks 72 out of 549. Before him are Brian Boru (941), J. D. Bernal (1901), Edmund the Martyr (841), Malcolm II of Scotland (954), John Banville (1945), and Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810). After him are Brenda Fricker (1945), James Barry (1795), Saint Fiacre (607), Vergilius of Salzburg (700), Brigid of Kildare (451), and Neil Jordan (1950).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, Peter Lacy ranks 1. After him are Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), William Brown (1777), Richard Montgomery (1738), Alan Cunningham (1887), John de Robeck (1862), George Browne (1698), Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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