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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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 209,108 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala is the 1,644th most popular military personnel, the 33rd most popular biography from Sri Lanka 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 1,644 out of 1,468Before him are Henry Heth, Samuel Ryan Curtis, Charles James Napier, Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, Lynndie England, and Arsen Pavlov. After him are Chelsea Manning, Vladimir Vysotsky, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, Vikram Batra, Arnaud Beltrame, and Islam Bibi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala ranks 88Before him are Julián Castro, Louis Fraser, Johann Ludwig Krapf, John McCloskey, Tomás Gomensoro Albín, and Horatio Seymour. After him are Robert Toombs and Philip Francis Thomas. Among people deceased in 1890, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala ranks 62Before him are Joseph Hergenröther, Oskar Kolberg, George Crook, Mihkel Veske, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, and Catherine Booth. After him is Philip Francis Thomas.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala ranks 33 out of 44Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), Duncan White (1918), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Thomas Cooray (1901), and Bob Tisdall (1907). After him are Heather Armitage (1933), Alexander Khloponin (1965), Beverley Craven (1963), Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975), Muttiah Muralitharan (1972), and Sanath Jayasuriya (1969).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Sri Lanka

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