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Pierre Cambronne

1770 - 1842

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Pierre Jacques Étienne, 1st Viscount Cambronne (26 December 1770 – 29 January 1842), was a general of the First French Empire. A main strategist of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, he was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Cambronne is the 676th most popular military personnel (down from 512th in 2019), the 1,816th most popular biography from France (down from 1,423rd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular French Military Personnel.

Pierre Cambronne is most famous for his response to the demand to surrender at the Battle of Waterloo.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Pierre Cambronne ranks 676 out of 2,058. Before him are Ivan Bohun, Takijirō Ōnishi, Abner Doubleday, Conon, Choe Yeong, and Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle. After him are Ashraf Marwan, Fritz Bayerlein, Kawakami Gensai, Callimachus, Bardas Skleros, and Franz Hössler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Pierre Cambronne ranks 23. Before him are Princess Carolina of Parma, Alexandre Pétion, George Canning, Ferdinando Carulli, Alexandre Brongniart, and Adam Johann von Krusenstern. After him are Jean Maximilien Lamarque, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Zaman Shah Durrani, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, François Étienne de Kellermann, and Lucile Desmoulins. Among people deceased in 1842, Pierre Cambronne ranks 16. Before him are Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Shah Shujah Durrani, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Peter Fendi, José de Espronceda, and Dominique Jean Larrey. After him are Charles Bell, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Francisco Morazán, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, and Wojciech Żywny.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Cambronne ranks 1,816 out of 6,770. Before him are Georg Muffat (1653), Jacques-François Blondel (1705), Fulk I, Count of Anjou (870), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844), Henri Michel (1947), and Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775). After him are Fulk IV, Count of Anjou (1043), Pierre Levegh (1905), Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717), Marie Trintignant (1962), Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), and Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Pierre Cambronne ranks 72. Before him are Walter Krüger (1890), Maurice Sarrail (1856), Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898), Bob Denard (1929), Joseph Gallieni (1849), and Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775). After him are Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770), Hubert Lyautey (1854), Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1772), Jules Brunet (1838), Billy Mitchell (1879), and Heinz Harmel (1906).

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