MILITARY PERSONNEL

Richard Montgomery

1738 - 1775

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Richard Montgomery (2 December 1738 – 31 December 1775) was an Irish-born American military officer who first served in the British Army. He later became a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and he is most famous for leading the unsuccessful 1775 invasion of northeastern Quebec. Montgomery was born and raised in Ireland to an Ulster-Scots family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Montgomery has received more than 686,627 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Richard Montgomery is the 1,237th most popular military personnel (up from 1,285th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 135th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Richard Montgomery ranks 1,237 out of 2,058. Before him are Maciej Sulkiewicz, Taira no Munemori, Rash Behari Bose, Achillas, Hannibal Gisco, and Constantin Constantinescu-Claps. After him are Neoptolemus II of Epirus, Richard Ruoff, József Alvinczi, Herzi Halevi, Johanna Wolf, and Alexander Vandegrift.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1738, Richard Montgomery ranks 17. Before him are Arthur Phillip, Jacques François Dugommier, Aleijadinho, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Johann Hermann, and Benjamin West. After him are Jacques-André Naigeon, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jacques Delille, Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau, Leopold Hofmann, and John Singleton Copley. Among people deceased in 1775, Richard Montgomery ranks 14. Before him are Zahir al-Umar, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, François-Hubert Drouais, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, and John Baskerville. After him are Egidio Duni, Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Szymon Czechowicz, Shuja-ud-Daula, and Peyton Randolph.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Montgomery ranks 109 out of 549. Before him are Arthur Guinness (1725), Constantine III of Scotland (971), William Brown (1777), Edward Bransfield (1785), John Boland (1870), and Roger Casement (1864). After him are G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Cornelius Ryan (1920), Colm Meaney (1953), Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), and Douglas Hyde (1860).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, Richard Montgomery ranks 4. Before him are Peter Lacy (1678), Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), and William Brown (1777). After him are 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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