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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Richard Montgomery

1738 - 1775

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Richard Montgomery (2 December 1738 – 31 December 1775) was an Ulster-Scots soldier 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 627,820 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Montgomery is the 1,286th most popular military personnel (down from 1,238th in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 153rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Richard Montgomery ranks 1,286 out of 1,468. Before him are Mikhail Diterikhs, Alfons Rebane, Albrecht Brandi, Dmitry Milyutin, Orde Wingate, and Juana Azurduy de Padilla. After him are Adolphe Marbot, Nelson A. Miles, Aris Velouchiotis, Ali Aaltonen, George Rooke, and Courtney Hodges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1738, Richard Montgomery ranks 20. Before him are Arthur Phillip, Jacques François Dugommier, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jacques Delille, Benjamin West, and John Singleton Copley. After him are Leopold Hofmann and Matvey Kazakov. Among people deceased in 1775, Richard Montgomery ranks 12. Before him are Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, John Baskerville, and Ahmad Shah Bahadur. After him are Egidio Duni, Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Shuja-ud-Daula, and Peyton Randolph.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Montgomery ranks 136 out of 501. Before him are Douglas Hyde (1860), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Eddie Jordan (1948), Barry Fitzgerald (1888), Sally Oldfield (1947), and Coloman of Stockerau (1000). After him are Anne de Mortimer (1390), Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909), Colm Meaney (1953), Brendan Behan (1923), Pat Cox (1952), and Ninette de Valois (1898).

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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 George Browne (1698), Alan Cunningham (1887), Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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