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  John BERKELEY

  English royalist soldier

  1602 - 1678
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  John HAWKINS

  English naval commander and administrator

  1532 - 1595
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  Zebulon PIKE

  American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named

  1779 - 1813
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  Louis DE BUSSY D'AMBOISE

  gentleman at the court of French king Henri III, a swordsman, dandy, and one of the favourites, or "mignons", of Monsieur, brother of the king

  1549 - 1579
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  Pierre GAULTIER DE VARENNES

  French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer

  1685 - 1749
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  Francisco DE SANDOVAL Y ROJAS

  A favourite of Philip III of Spain, was the first of the validos ('most worthy') through whom the later Habsburg monarchs ruled

  1553 - 1625
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  Michel CHARTIER DE LOTBINIERE

  Quebec soldier

  1723 - 1798
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  Sylvanus THAYER

  Also known as "the Father of West Point", he was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point

  1785 - 1872
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  Friedrich Wilhelm VON STEUBEN

  Prussian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War

  1730 - 1794
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  Federico DA MONTEFELTRO

  One of the most successful condottieri of the Italian Renaissance

  1422 - 1482
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  Peter GANSEVOORT

  Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War

  1749 - 1812
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  Jean-Roch COIGNET

  French soldier who served in the military campaigns of the Consulate and First French Empire

  1776 - 1865
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  Persifor Frazer SMITH

  U.S. Army officer during the Seminole Wars and Mexican-American War, as well as one of the last governors of California before it became a state

  1798 - 1858
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  Donatien-Marie-Joseph DE ROCHAMBEAU

  French soldier

  1755 - 1813
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  Giuseppe BAVASTRO

  Italian privateer

  1760 - 1833
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  Conrad DE MONTFERRAT

  Northern Italian nobleman, one of the major participants in the Third Crusade

  1145 - 1192
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  Gebhard Leberecht VON BLüCHER

  Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against Napoleon I

  1742 - 1819
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  Philip CARTERET

  British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69

  1733 - 1796
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  Charles CORNWALLIS

  British Army officer and colonial administrator

  1738 - 1805
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  George BINGHAM

  British Army officer

  1800 - 1888