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Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine

1740 - 1793

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Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (4 February 1740 – 28 August 1793) was a French general. As a young officer in the French Royal Army, he served in the Seven Years' War. In the American Revolutionary War he joined Rochambeau's Expédition Particulière (Special Expedition) supporting the American colonists. Following the successful Virginia campaign and the Battle of Yorktown, he returned to France and rejoined his unit in the Royal Army. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine is the 1,036th most popular military personnel (up from 1,259th in 2019), the 2,689th most popular biography from France (up from 3,094th in 2019) and the 100th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 1,036 out of 2,058. Before him are Fukushima Masanori, Leontius, Otto von Lossow, James Wolfe, Eugen Ritter von Schobert, and Helmut Lent. After him are Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Arslan Isra'il, Ramón de Cardona, Prince Moriyoshi, Felice Pasquale Baciocchi, and Robert Blake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 20. Before him are Giambattista Bodoni, John Latham, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Anders Johan Lexell, and James Boswell. After him are Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Matthias Claudius, Juan Ignacio Molina, Johan Tobias Sergel, Johan Andreas Murray, and J. F. Oberlin. Among people deceased in 1793, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 34. Before him are John Hancock, Joannicius III of Constantinople, Pietro Nardini, Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, and Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard. After him are Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau, Karl Philipp Moritz, William Hudson, and Leopold Hofmann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 2,689 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexandre Deschapelles (1780), Bonne of Artois (1396), Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829), Émile Littré (1801), Abraham Bosse (1604), and Pierre Séguier (1588). After him are Jacques Loussier (1934), Michel Constantin (1924), Charles de Bourbon (1523), Michel Petrucciani (1962), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine ranks 100. Before him are Aimable Pélissier (1794), Jacques Doriot (1898), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771), François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722), Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762), and Georges Guynemer (1894). After him are Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762), Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861), Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765), Wilhelm Falley (1897), Gaston Billotte (1875), and Jacques Massu (1908).

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