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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Robert Anderson

1805 - 1871

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Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 – October 26, 1871) was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the Union commander in the first battle of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter in April 1861 when the Confederates bombarded the fort and forced its surrender to start the war. Anderson was celebrated as a hero in the North and promoted to brigadier general and given command of Union forces in Kentucky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Anderson has received more than 54,918 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Anderson is the 1,466th most popular military personnel (down from 1,232nd in 2019), the 5,924th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,716th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Robert Anderson ranks 1,466 out of 1,468Before him are Eugene Sledge, Smedley Butler, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Władysław Raginis, Guo Boxiong, and Esmail Ghaani. After him are J. D. Tippit, John Frost, Charles Lee, Mark Milley, Cort Adeler, and Frederick Townsend Ward.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Robert Anderson ranks 57Before him are Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Victor Baltard, William Lloyd Garrison, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, and Louise Bertin. After him are Gabriel Bibron, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Tomás Villalba, José Ballivián, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, and John O. Westwood. Among people deceased in 1871, Robert Anderson ranks 57Before him are Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Josef Mánes, Willibald Alexis, Paul Kane, İbrahim Şinasi, and Jan Jacob Rochussen. After him are Adolph Strecker, Castro Alves, Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, Charles Antoine Lemaire, José Mármol, and Martín Carrera.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Anderson ranks 5,924 out of 18,182Before him are Lil Peep (1996), R. G. Armstrong (1917), Carol Morris (1936), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), Miriam Stevenson (1933), and Jon Brion (1963). After him are Robert Barro (1944), J. D. Tippit (1924), John Norman (1931), Gregg Toland (1904), Brent Scowcroft (1925), and Honus Wagner (1874).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Robert Anderson ranks 102Before him are Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883), Richard S. Ewell (1817), William Guarnere (1923), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Eugene Sledge (1923), and Smedley Butler (1881). After him are J. D. Tippit (1924), Mark Milley (1958), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), John Bell Hood (1831), Richard Bong (1920), and Richmond K. Turner (1885).