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John Sullivan

1740 - 1795

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Major-General John Sullivan (February 17, 1740 – January 23, 1795) was a Continental Army officer, politician and judge who fought in the American Revolutionary War and participated several key events of the conflict, including most notably George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River. He was also a delegate to the Continental Congress, where Sullivan signed the Continental Association. After the war, he served as the third governor of New Hampshire and was appointed as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Sullivan, the third son of American settlers, commanded the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, a scorched earth by the Continental Army which destroyed 40 Iroquois villages, leading to the forced displacement of 5,000 Iroquois as refugees to British controlled Fort Niagara and the deaths of several hundred Iroquois during the harsh winter of 1779–1780. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Sullivan is the 814th most popular military personnel (up from 1,937th in 2019), the 2,737th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,720th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Sullivan ranks 814 out of 2,058. Before him are Demosthenes, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Shūmei Ōkawa, Fakhri Pasha, Karel Doorman, and Ling Tong. After him are Nikolai Ogarkov, Oda Nobutaka, Abu Bakr ibn Umar, Max von Gallwitz, Artabanes, and Meliton Kantaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, John Sullivan ranks 13. Before him are Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Carl Michael Bellman, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier. After him are Giambattista Bodoni, John Latham, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Anders Johan Lexell, and James Boswell. Among people deceased in 1795, John Sullivan ranks 16. Before him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Michael Bellman, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Pieter Boddaert, Samuel Wallis, and Josiah Wedgwood. After him are Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, Antonio de Ulloa, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, James Boswell, and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Sullivan ranks 2,737 out of 20,380. Before him are Leroy Anderson (1908), Wallace Shawn (1943), Barbara Eden (1931), Darryl F. Zanuck (1902), Mitch McConnell (1942), and Bo Diddley (1928). After him are R. Kelly (1967), Donald Glover (1983), Nancy Kassebaum (1932), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Tanya Roberts (1955), and Richard Ford (1944).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, John Sullivan ranks 46. Before him are Abner Doubleday (1819), Hugh S. Johnson (1882), Mark W. Clark (1896), Husband E. Kimmel (1882), Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886), and David Farragut (1801). After him are Paul Revere (1735), Doc Holliday (1851), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Joseph Dunford (1955), and Joseph E. Johnston (1807).

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