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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

1763 - 1806

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Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʃaʁl ʒɑ̃ batist silvɛstʁ də vilnœv]; 31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806) was a French naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre-Charles Villeneuve has received more than 402,712 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Pierre-Charles Villeneuve is the 380th most popular military personnel (up from 382nd in 2019), the 1,059th most popular biography from France (up from 1,098th in 2019) and the 44th 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 380 out of 1,468Before him are Thomas the Slav, Bronislav Kaminski, Alexander Samsonov, Erich Kempka, Usama ibn Zayd, and Horatius Cocles. After him are Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, La Hire, Xiahou Yuan, Omar Pasha, and Georges Picquart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 10Before him are Jean Paul, Jacques Charles, 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, Étienne Méhul, and Joseph Fesch. Among people deceased in 1806, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 15Before him are Carlo Gozzi, Michael Haydn, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, William Pitt the Younger, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Claude Nicolas Ledoux. After him are Mungo Park, Nicolas Leblanc, Johann Christoph Adelung, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 1,059 out of 6,011Before him are William X, Duke of Aquitaine (1099), Alain Touraine (1925), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Léon Bonnat (1833), Augustin Robespierre (1763), and Jean de La Bruyère (1645). After him are Wilfred the Hairy (840), John, Duke of Berry (1340), Charles Maurras (1868), Louis-Jules Trochu (1815), Jean de Dunois (1402), and Michèle Morgan (1920).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ranks 44Before him are Jean-Andoche Junot (1771), Pierre Augereau (1757), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762), and Henri Giraud (1879). After him are La Hire (1390), Georges Picquart (1854), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770), François Achille Bazaine (1811), and Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (1393).