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William Birdwood, an Uncommon card
Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, was a senior and highly decorated and distinguished British Indian Army officer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 167
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 27,000
Power 167 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener.
- Birdwood saw action again in the First World War, initially as commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming commander of the Australian Corps and the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war.
- He then went on to be general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925, and retired as a field marshal.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Birdwood article was read about 27,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get William Birdwood
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Birdwood (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Elliott and Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

