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Robert BADEN-POWELL
British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement
1857 - 1941 -
Francisco FRANCO
Spanish general who ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator
1892 - 1975 -
Wolfram Freiherr VON RICHTHOFEN
German Generalfeldmarschall (General Field Marshal) of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during the Second World War
1895 - 1945 -
George S. PATTON
United States Army officer
1885 - 1945 -
Charles de GAULLE
French army officer and statesman
1890 - 1970 -
Lewis Strauss
American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer
1896 - 1974 -
Bernard Law MONTGOMERY
British Army officer
1887 - 1976 -
Jean Marie CAUJOLLE
First disabled war veteran in France
1889 - 1928 -
Auguste Joseph RENAULT
Last French soldier killed during WWI
1897 - 1918 -
Ferdinand FOCH
French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War
1851 - 1929 -
George Armstrong CUSTER
United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars
1839 - 1876 -
Alfred DREYFUS
French artillery officer who was convicted in 1894 on charges of treason
1859 - 1935 -
Douglas MacARTHUR
American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army
1880 - 1964 -
Philippe Pétain
French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II
1856 - 1951 -
Maxime Weygand
French military commander in World War I and World War II
1867 - 1965 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881 -
Robert NIVELLE
French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War
1856 - 1924 -
François DARLAN
French Admiral and political figure
1881 - 1942 -
Jérome BONAPARTE
King of Westphalia
1784 - 1860 -
Joseph DARNAND
French soldier, leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer
1897 - 1945