Historical Archives & Public Figures

東郷平八郎

Tokugawa Japan

1848 – 1934 (86 years old)

Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy dubbed the 'Nelson of the East', who annihilated the Russian Imperial Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, changing world naval history.

Fuchu (Tokyo), Japan

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Joseph Joffre (Marshal Joffre / Papa Joffre)

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Joseph Joffre (Marshal Joffre / Papa Joffre)

Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre

Second French Republic (France)

1852 – 1931 (78 years old)

Marshal of France and Commander-in-Chief of the French Army whose unflappable composure and counter-offensive won the 'Miracle of the Marne' in September 1914.

Louveciennes (Yvelines), France

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Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1st Earl Haig)

Military Leaders & Strategists

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Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1st Earl Haig)

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

United Kingdom (Scotland)

1861 – 1928 (66 years old)

Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919 who directed the Hundred Days Offensive that won World War I.

Dryburgh (Scottish Borders), United Kingdom

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General Aleksei Alekseyevich Brusilov

Алексей Алексеевич Брусилов

Russian Empire (Georgia)

1853 – 1926 (72 years old)

Russian cavalry general who innovated infiltration and short shock artillery tactics in the 1916 Brusilov Offensive, the greatest Allied breakthrough of World War I.

Moscow, Russia

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Ras Alula Engida

ራስ አሉላ እንግዳ (አባ ነጋ)

Ethiopian Empire

c. 1827 CE – 1897 (70 years old)

One of Africa's greatest 19th-century military commanders, dubbed the 'Garibaldi of Abyssinia', who wiped out Italian colonial troops at Dogali in 1887 and commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.

Axum (Tigray), Ethiopia

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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General William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman

United States

1820 – 1891 (71 years old)

Union General during the American Civil War whose 'March to the Sea' and capture of Atlanta broke Confederate infrastructure and pioneered modern total warfare.

St. Louis (Missouri), United States

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Giuseppe Garibaldi (Hero of the Two Worlds)

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Giuseppe Garibaldi (Hero of the Two Worlds)

Giuseppe Garibaldi

French Empire (France / Italy)

1807 – 1882 (74 years old)

Italian general, nationalist, and revolutionary who led the Expedition of the Thousand in his iconic Red Shirts, conquering the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to unify Italy.

Caprera Island (La Maddalena), Italy

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Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

David Glasgow Farragut

United States

1801 – 1870 (69 years old)

First Admiral, Vice Admiral, and Rear Admiral of the United States Navy who captured New Orleans and won the Battle of Mobile Bay ('Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!').

Bronx (New York City), United States

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Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson

Thomas Jonathan Jackson

United States

1824 – 1863 (39 years old)

Confederate general renowned for operational speed, secrecy, and audacity whose 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign remains a classic of operational maneuver.

Lexington (Virginia), United States

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Prince Diponegoro

Bendara Pangeran Harya Dipanegara

Yogyakarta Sultanate

1785 – 1855 (69 years old)

Javanese prince and spiritual leader who led the devastating Java War (1825–1830) against Dutch colonial rule, nearly bankrupting the Dutch colonial empire.

Makassar (South Sulawesi), Indonesia

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Ibrahim Pasha

إبراهيم باشا

Greece

1789 – 1848 (59 years old)

Egyptian military genius, eldest son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, who revolutionized the Egyptian army, crushed the Wahhabi rebellion in Arabia, and routed Ottoman imperial armies across Syria and Anatolia to the gates of Istanbul.

Cairo, Egypt

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Maharaja Ranjit Singh

ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ (ਸ਼ੇਰ-ਏ-ਪੰਜਾਬ)

Sukerchakia Misl

1780 – 1839 (58 years old)

Founder of the Sikh Empire who unified the warring Sikh misls, conquered Lahore and Kashmir, modernized his army with Napoleonic officers, and gilded the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar.

Lahore, Pakistan

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Hari Singh Nalwa

ਹਰੀ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਲਵਾ

Sikh Empire

1791 – 1837 (46 years old)

Fabled Commander-in-Chief of the Sikh Khalsa Army whose military genius halted centuries of foreign invasions through the Khyber Pass, conquering Kasur, Multan, Kashmir, and Peshawar.

Jamrud (Khyber District), Pakistan

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette

Kingdom of France

1757 – 1834 (76 years old)

French aristocrat and major general in the Continental Army hailed as the 'Hero of Two Worlds', who trapped Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Paris, France

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Antonio José de Sucre (Grand Marshal of Ayacucho)

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Antonio José de Sucre (Grand Marshal of Ayacucho)

Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá

Venezuela

1795 – 1830 (35 years old)

Venezuelan independence leader and Grand Marshal of Ayacucho whose victory in 1824 permanently destroyed the Spanish Empire in South America.

Quito, Ecuador

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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (Marschall Vorwärts)

Military Leaders & Strategists

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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (Marschall Vorwärts)

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany)

1742 – 1819 (76 years old)

Prussian Field Marshal and Prince of Wahlstatt hailed as 'Marshal Forward' whose aggressive leadership won Leipzig and whose timely arrival won Waterloo.

Kąty Wrocławskie, Poland

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Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly

Михаил Богданович Барклай-де-Толли

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)

1761 – 1818 (56 years old)

Russian Field Marshal of Scottish-Baltic descent who served as Minister of War, formulated the scorched-earth retreat strategy that ruined Napoleon in 1812, and took Paris.

Jõgeveste, Estonia

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