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Ignacio Zaragoza

1829 - 1862

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Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín (March 24, 1829 – September 8, 1862) was a Mexican Army officer and politician. He is best known for leading a Mexican army of 3,791 men which defeated a 5,730-strong force of French troops at the battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 during the second French intervention in Mexico. The Mexican victory is celebrated annually as Cinco de Mayo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ignacio Zaragoza is the 9,968th most popular politician (up from 10,292nd in 2019), the 3,809th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,620th in 2019) and the 324th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 9,968 out of 19,576. Before him are Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Waleran IV, Duke of Limburg, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Waiofar, Gotō Shinpei, and Nitta Yoshisada. After him are Shu-Sin, Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Muhammad Mustafa Mero, Francesc Cambó, Reginald I of Guelders, and Khalid al-Azm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 32. Before him are Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Maurice Joly, Robert Nobel, and Franz Reuleaux. After him are Moritz Cantor, Jean-Jacques Henner, Konrad Duden, Laurence Oliphant, Allan Octavian Hume, and José de Alencar. Among people deceased in 1862, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 28. Before him are Johann Nestroy, Simon Fraser, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Peter Barlow, and François Sudre. After him are Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, Justinus Kerner, and Francisco Balagtas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 3,809 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Weinberg (1942), Don Bluth (1937), Chloë Grace Moretz (1997), Andy Weir (1972), Florence Owens Thompson (1903), and Jim Bausch (1906). After him are Stephen Kovacevich (1940), Alexandra Breckenridge (1982), Michael Buffer (1944), Sam Loyd (1841), Robert Gates (1943), and Richard Estes (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ignacio Zaragoza ranks 324. Before him are Jay Rockefeller (1937), Marie Smith Jones (1918), R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), Jim Garrison (1921), William Windom (1827), and Phil Scott (1958). After him are Robert Gates (1943), Dolley Madison (1768), William P. Clark Jr. (1931), Daniel Inouye (1924), Leon Panetta (1938), and Augustine Washington (1694).

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