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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

1757 - 1834

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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (), was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War. Lafayette commanded Continental Army troops in the decisive siege of Yorktown in 1781, the Revolutionary War's final major battle, which secured American independence. After returning to France, Lafayette became a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830 and continues to be celebrated as a hero in both France and the United States. Lafayette was born into a wealthy land-owning family in Chavaniac in the province of Auvergne in south-central France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette is the 17th most popular military personnel (up from 77th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from France (up from 293rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Military Personnel.

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette is most famous for his role in the American Revolution.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette ranks 17 out of 2,058. Before him are Oda Nobunaga, Erwin Rommel, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Charles Martel, and Prince Eugene of Savoy. After him are Spartacus, Vasily Zaitsev, Romulus Augustulus, Flavius Aetius, Jochi, and Simo Häyhä.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette ranks 2. Before him is Charles X of France. After him are William Blake, Antonio Canova, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Pierre Augereau, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Robert Smith, Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Rigas Feraios. Among people deceased in 1834, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette ranks 1. After him are Thomas Robert Malthus, Pedro I of Brazil, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Alois Senefelder, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette ranks 86 out of 6,770. Before him are Henry III of France (1551), Louis IX of France (1214), Henri Bergson (1859), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Tacitus (54), and Jacques Cartier (1491). After him are Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Pope Clement V (1264), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Louis de Broglie (1892), and Louis Braille (1809).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette ranks 5. Before him are Joan of Arc (1412), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), and Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663). After him are Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), and Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769).

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