MILITARY PERSONNEL

P. G. T. Beauregard

1818 - 1893

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Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer known as being the Confederate general who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard. Trained in military and civil engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer officer in the Mexican–American War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. P. G. T. Beauregard is the 1,001st most popular military personnel (down from 835th in 2019), the 3,414th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,448th in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 1,001 out of 2,058. Before him are Yakov Pavlov, Henry Allingham, Yan Liang, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Walter Weiß, and François Joseph Paul de Grasse. After him are Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Stanisław Maczek, Erik Heinrichs, Gongsun Du, and Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 49. Before him are Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Heinrich Göbel, Franciscus Donders, Jules Jamin, Marco Minghetti, and Heinrich Kiepert. After him are Louis Gerhard De Geer, Gustave Aimard, Antonio Bazzini, Amelia Bloomer, Mary Elizabeth Barber, and Petar Preradović. Among people deceased in 1893, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 34. Before him are Alexander Cunningham, George Tupou I, Jacob Moleschott, John O. Westwood, Rudolf Wolf, and William Smith. After him are Anna Bilińska, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Alexander Kazbegi, Matsudaira Katamori, Julius Popper, and Manuel González Flores.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 3,414 out of 20,380. Before him are Curtis Hanson (1945), Howard S. Becker (1928), Artie Shaw (1910), Lionel Hampton (1908), Jacques Futrelle (1875), and Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901). After him are Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Randy Quaid (1950), Alex North (1910), Sal Khan (1976), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), and Trini Lopez (1937).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, P. G. T. Beauregard ranks 60. Before him are Joseph Stilwell (1883), George B. McClellan (1826), James Bowie (1796), Matthew Ridgway (1895), Frank Serpico (1936), and Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (1924). After him are Charlie Wilson (1933), Philip Sheridan (1831), John O'Connor (1920), Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738), Wesley Clark (1944), and Chelsea Manning (1987).

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