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Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough

1779 - 1869

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Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, (3 November 1779 – 2 March 1869) was a senior British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer at the seizure of the Cape of Good Hope during the French Revolutionary Wars, Gough commanded the 2nd Battalion of the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War. After serving as commander-in-chief of the British forces in China during the First Opium War, he became Commander-in-Chief, India and led the British forces in action against the Marathas defeating them decisively at the conclusion of the Gwalior campaign and then commanded the troops that defeated the Sikhs during both the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough is the 1,871st most popular military personnel (up from 1,881st in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 255th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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Among military personnels, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 1,871 out of 2,058. Before him are Johannes Block, Mariya Smirnova, Israel Putnam, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Michael Mullen, and Adasi. After him are Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, Franz Sigel, Isaac Brock, Michael von Kienmayer, and Oliver Leese.

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Among people born in 1779, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 33. Before him are Louis de Freycinet, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Filippo Paulucci, Washington Allston, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle. After him are Tabitha Babbitt, Peter Mark Roget, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Zebulon Pike, Benjamin Silliman, and Stephen Decatur. Among people deceased in 1869, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 59. Before him are Andreas Kalvos, George Peabody, Diomidis Kyriakos, Bertalan Szemere, Robert J. Walker, and José Hilario López. After him are Charles Sturt, Peter Mark Roget, John Cassin, Thomas Hodgskin, Henry Jarvis Raymond, and Mary Ward.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 260 out of 549. Before him are Kevin Doyle (1983), Wolfe Tone (1763), Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737), Maeve Binchy (1939), Rex Ingram (1892), and William McGonagall (1825). After him are Alison Doody (1966), Victor Herbert (1859), Luke Kelly (1940), Owen Moore (1886), Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), and Philip Pettit (1945).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough ranks 9. Before him are Richard Montgomery (1738), William Brown (1777), George Browne (1698), John de Robeck (1862), Alan Cunningham (1887), and Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833). After him are Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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