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  Ange Hyacinthe Maxence DE DAMAS

  French general and Minister

  1785 - 1862
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  Beauchamp SEYMOUR

  British naval commander

  1821 - 1895
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  Georges DE VILLEBOIS-MAREUIL

  Colonel in the French infantry, and a French Nationalist who fought and died on the side of the Boers during the Second Anglo-Boer War

  1847 - 1900
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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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  Olof THöRNELL

  General of the Swedish armed forces

  1877 - 1977
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  John Jacob ASTOR IV

  American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family

  1864 - 1912
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  Winfield Scott HANCOCK

  U.S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880

  1824 - 1886
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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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  Lucius M. WALKER

  Confederate general during the American Civil War, he was mortally wounded in a duel with fellow general John S. Marmaduke

  1829 - 1863
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  Théophile MAUPAS

  French teacher and town clerk, shot for example

  1874 - 1915
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  George BINGHAM

  British Army officer

  1800 - 1888
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  George MARSHALL

  American soldier and statesman famous for his leadership roles during World War II and the Cold War

  1880 - 1959
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  John ROSS

  British naval officer and Arctic explorer

  1777 - 1856
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  Nathan Bedford FORREST

  American lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War

  1821 - 1877
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  Thomas COCHRANE

  Scottish naval flag officer of the Royal Navy and radical politician

  1775 - 1860
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  René DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART

  French politician

  1804 - 1893
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  Jean-Baptiste COLUCHE

  French soldier

  1780 - 1867
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  Jan Smuts

  South African statesman, military leader and philosopher

  1870 - 1950
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  Edward STANLEY

  British soldier, Conservative politician, diplomat and racehorse owner

  1865 - 1948