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Banastre Tarleton

1754 - 1833

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General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet (21 August 1754 – 15 January 1833) was a British military officer and politician. He is best known as the lieutenant colonel leading the British Legion at the end of the American Revolutionary War. He later served in Portugal and held commands in Ireland and England. During most of his service in North America, he led the British Legion, a provincial unit organised in New York in 1778. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Banastre Tarleton is the 13,224th most popular politician (down from 12,074th in 2019), the 3,142nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,566th in 2019) and the 440th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Banastre Tarleton ranks 13,224 out of 19,576. Before him are Ali Benflis, Robert Menzies, Lúcio Lara, Ptolemaeus of Commagene, Sushil Koirala, and Song Ping. After him are Siegfried Buback, Marcel Cachin, Nikolay Girs, Pamba, Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Iuput II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Banastre Tarleton ranks 44. Before him are Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Peter Winter, Juan José Elhuyar, Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, and Hipólito Ruiz López. After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Ivan Martos, Anna Maria Lenngren, Grace Elliott, Vincenzo Monti, and George Crabbe. Among people deceased in 1833, Banastre Tarleton ranks 33. Before him are Nannette Streicher, Yagan, Fausto Elhuyar, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, and Johann Friedrich Meckel. After him are William Thompson, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Joshua Brookes, and Hannah More.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Banastre Tarleton ranks 3,143 out of 8,785. Before him are Keith Newton (1941), Damian Lewis (1971), Richard Hooker (1554), Jason Flemyng (1966), Roger Norrington (1934), and Angus Ogilvy (1928). After him are Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), Douglas Bader (1910), Julian Bream (1933), Jonathan Glazer (1965), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), and Gwendoline Christie (1978).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Banastre Tarleton ranks 440. Before him are John Wilkes (1725), Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (1640), James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (1286), Terence O'Neill (1914), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), and William Camden (1551). After him are Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811), Blanche of England (1392), Caradoc (470), Ken Livingstone (1945), and John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822).

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