MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

1745 - 1818

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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is memorialized as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court. Point du Sable was of African descent, but little else is known of his early life prior to the 1770s. During his career, the areas where he settled and traded around the Great Lakes and in the Illinois Country changed hands several times between France, Britain, Spain and the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is the 1,784th most popular military personnel (up from 1,791st in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Haiti (down from 41st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Haitian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 1,784 out of 2,058. Before him are Mickey Marcus, Paul von Plehwe, Manuel Goded Llopis, Felix Graf von Bothmer, Serhiy Shaptala, and Matthew Fontaine Maury. After him are Trần Văn Trà, Samuel Ryan Curtis, Hyman G. Rickover, Kliment Boyadzhiev, Frederick Townsend Ward, and Fritz-Hubert Gräser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 45. Before him are François-Jean de la Barre, Johann Peter Salomon, Timothy Pickering, Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, and Félix María de Samaniego. After him are Oliver Ellsworth, John Jeffries, Sydney Parkinson, William Paterson, Madhavrao I, and Samuel Hearne. Among people deceased in 1818, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 42. Before him are Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Ivan Kulibin, Henry Lee III, Josef Abel, Johann David Wyss, and Carl Frederik von Breda. After him are Arthur St. Clair, and George Rogers Clark.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 47 out of 94. Before him are Jean-Jacques Honorat (1931), Louis Borno (1865), Ernst Jean-Joseph (1948), Joseph Nérette (1924), Pierre Nord Alexis (1820), and Guy François (1947). After him are Prosper Avril (1937), Claudette Werleigh (1946), Claude Barthélemy (1945), Raoul Peck (1953), Dany Laferrière (1953), and Wyclef Jean (1969).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Haiti

Among military personnels born in Haiti, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ranks 2. Before him are Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762).

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