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Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval

1715 - 1789

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Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist vakɛt də ɡʁiboval]; 15 September 1715 – 9 May 1789) was a French artillery officer and engineer who revolutionised the French cannon, creating a new production system that allowed for lighter, more uniform guns without sacrificing range. His Gribeauval system superseded the de Vallière system. These guns proved essential to French military victories during the Napoleonic Wars. Gribeauval is credited as the earliest known advocate for the interchangeability of gun parts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval is the 1,241st most popular military personnel (down from 1,120th in 2019), the 3,120th most popular biography from France (down from 2,838th in 2019) and the 116th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among military personnels, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 1,241 out of 2,058. Before him are Maximilian Njegovan, Roussel de Bailleul, Adolphe Pégoud, Nina Lobkovskaya, Hans Graf von Sponeck, and Peisander. After him are François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, Grigory Shtern, David Petraeus, Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, and Semyon Krivoshein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 15. Before him are Dorothea Erxleben, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, and François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis. After him are Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Jean-Étienne Guettard, and Pedro Antonio de Cevallos. Among people deceased in 1789, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 14. Before him are Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Franz Xaver Richter, Petrus Camper, Thomas Nelson Jr., and Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau. After him are Paolo Renier, Jafar Khan, John Cleland, Anders Dahl, Jakob II Bernoulli, and Paul Egede.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 3,120 out of 6,770. Before him are Djibril Cissé (1981), Louis Lavelle (1883), Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Champfleury (1821), Yves Robert (1920), and Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808). After him are François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Victor Segalen (1878), Robert Casadesus (1899), Prosper Guéranger (1805), Casimir Delavigne (1793), and Jean Patou (1887).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval ranks 116. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765), Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788), Charles Mangin (1866), Claude François de Malet (1754), Roussel de Bailleul (1100), and Adolphe Pégoud (1889). After him are François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), François Joseph Westermann (1751), Amédée Courbet (1827), Violette Szabo (1921), and Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684).

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