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Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala

1810 - 1890

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Field Marshal Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (6 December 1810 – 14 January 1890) was a British Indian Army officer. He fought in the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War before seeing action as chief engineer during the second relief of Lucknow in March 1858 during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He also served in the Second Opium War as commander of the 2nd division of the expeditionary force which took part in the Battle of Taku Forts, the surrender of Peking's Anting Gate and the entry to Peking in 1860. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala has received more than 223,565 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala is the 1,981st most popular military personnel (down from 1,640th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Sri Lankan Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala ranks 1,981 out of 2,058. Before him are James L. Jones, Vitaly Gerasimov, Zaza Gogava, John O'Connor, Kenneth Anderson, and Richard Myers. After him are Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, Redvers Buller, Nathaniel Lyon, Aytaç Yalman, William J. Hardee, and Benjamin Bonneville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala ranks 98. Before him are Julián Castro, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Pierre Bosquet, Victor Motschulsky, Tomás Gomensoro Albín, and Nísia Floresta. After him are Horatio Seymour, John McCloskey, Robert Toombs, and Philip Francis Thomas. Among people deceased in 1890, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala ranks 70. Before him are Carl Jacob Löwig, John Francis Davis, Catherine Booth, William Bell Scott, Mihkel Veske, and Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon. After him are Émile Léonard Mathieu, and Philip Francis Thomas.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala ranks 35 out of 51. Before him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), and John Kotelawala (1897). After him are Bob Tisdall (1907), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), Muttiah Muralitharan (1972), Beverley Craven (1963), Alexander Khloponin (1965), and Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Sri Lanka

Among military personnels born in Sri Lanka, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala ranks 3. Before him are Jack Churchill (1906), and John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841). After him are Ajantha Mendis (1985).

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