MILITARY PERSONNEL

Philip Sheridan

1831 - 1888

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Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Sheridan has received more than 1,825,654 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Philip Sheridan is the 933rd most popular military personnel (down from 804th in 2019), the 2,684th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,467th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Philip Sheridan ranks 933 out of 2,058. Before him are Prince Franz of Bavaria, Joachim Schepke, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Eugen Meindl, Dominique Vandamme, and Wilhelm Souchon. After him are Karl Ernst, Teruo Nakamura, Nikolay Krylov, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Takeo Takagi, and Karel Doorman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Philip Sheridan ranks 40. Before him are Anna Leonowens, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Othniel Charles Marsh, Ankō Itosu, Princess Helena of Nassau, and Siegfried Marcus. After him are Peter Nicolai Arbo, Daniele Comboni, David Edward Hughes, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, and Prince August, Duke of Dalarna. Among people deceased in 1888, Philip Sheridan ranks 40. Before him are Vsevolod Garshin, Henri Herz, Eugène Marin Labiche, Dora d'Istria, Josif Pančić, and Princess Marie Amelie of Baden. After him are Auguste Maquet, Matthew Arnold, Gustave Boulanger, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Eunice Newton Foote, and Jean-Delphin Alard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Sheridan ranks 2,684 out of 20,380. Before him are Pancho Gonzales (1928), Eric Schmidt (1955), William J. Burns (1956), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Suzanne Vega (1959), and Laura Linney (1964). After him are Ronald Evans (1933), Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914), Jay Rockefeller (1937), Larry David (1947), Waylon Jennings (1937), and James Mark Baldwin (1861).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Philip Sheridan ranks 44. Before him are P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Joseph Stilwell (1883), Matthew Ridgway (1895), John C. Woods (1911), Monte Melkonian (1957), and John Basilone (1916). After him are Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886), Chris Kyle (1974), Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), Carl Brashear (1931), George Dewey (1837), and Walton Walker (1889).

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