# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-le-marchant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:50:32.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-le-marchant"
name: "John Le Marchant"
slug: "john-le-marchant"
description: "Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He has been described as one of the finest British cavalry commanders of his generation, and was also an intellectual soldier who had a great influence on the efficient functioning of the British army. Le Marchant was instrumental in founding the first British military academy and staff college, and he saw active service in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Peninsular War, where he was killed in action at the Battle of Salamanca."
tagline: "British Army general (1766-1812)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Gaspard_Le_Marchant.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1766-02-09"
deathDate: "1812-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.681858666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جان گاسپارد لو مارشان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "جون ل مارتشانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Le_Marchant_(British_Army_officer%2C_born_1766)"
    title: "John Le Marchant (British Army officer, born 1766)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9)"
    title: "Ле Маршан, Джон (военный)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Le_Marchant"
    title: "John Le Marchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gaspard_Le_Marchant"
    title: "John Gaspard Le Marchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6244281"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump