MILITARY PERSONNEL

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

1763 - 1806

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Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806) was a French Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre-Charles Villeneuve has received more than 439,668 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Charles Villeneuve is the 359th most popular military personnel (up from 380th in 2019), the 998th most popular biography from France (up from 1,056th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Military Personnel.

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve was a French naval officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars. He is most famous for his role in the Battle of Trafalgar, where he commanded the French fleet in the Mediterranean.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 359 out of 2,058. Before him are Francisco de Miranda, Günther Prien, Maximilian von Spee, Ivan Paskevich, Jozef Gabčík, and Omar Pasha. After him are Levin August von Bennigsen, Sergei Skripal, Nicolas Chauvin, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Ban Chao, and Kirill Meretskov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 10. Before him are Jacques Charles, Jean Paul, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Claude Chappe, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Augustin Robespierre. After him are Kobayashi Issa, Guillaume Brune, Xavier de Maistre, Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden, Joseph Fesch, and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Among people deceased in 1806, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 14. Before him are Michael Haydn, Carlo Gozzi, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and Johann Christoph Adelung. After him are Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Nicolas Leblanc, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, and Michel Adanson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 998 out of 6,770. Before him are Henrietta Maria of France (1609), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Charles Nodier (1780), Jean Casimir-Perier (1847), Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802), and Michèle Morgan (1920). After him are Jacques Cassini (1677), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Jean Moulin (1899), Georges Brassens (1921), René Girard (1923), and Pauline Viardot (1821).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 39. Before him are Charles François Dumouriez (1739), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764), and Henri Giraud (1879). After him are Nicolas Chauvin (1790), François Achille Bazaine (1811), Lazare Hoche (1768), Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762), La Hire (1390), and Pierre Augereau (1757).

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