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Napoleon Bonaparte
General & Emperor
Joan of Arc
Military leader & saint
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Julius Caesar
General & dictator
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Alexander the Great
King of Macedon
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shogun & unifier of Japan
Saladin
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Genghis Khan
Founder of the Mongol Empire
Shaka
King of the Zulu Kingdom
Yi Sun-sin
Naval commander
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President & Civil War general
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Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
José de San Martín
General & independence leader
Bernardo O'Higgins
Military officer & statesman
Pancho Villa
Revolutionary general
Baybars
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Attila the Hun
Ruler of the Huns
Stephen the Great
Voivode of Moldavia
John III Sobieski
King of Poland
Antonio Maceo
Independence general
Bernardo de Gálvez
Colonial military leader and administrator
José Gervasio Artigas
Military leader and founding father
Omar Torrijos
Military leader of Panama
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Military leader and President of Finland
Andranik
Military commander
Garegin Nzhdeh
Military commander and statesman
Skanderbeg
Military leader
Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister of Israel
Moshe Dayan
Military leader and politician
Ehud Barak
Prime Minister of Israel
Võ Nguyên Giáp
General
Taksin
King of Thonburi
Claus von Stauffenberg
Army officer
Cesare Borgia
Cardinal & military commander
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Xerxes I
King of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Leonidas I
King of Sparta
Hannibal
Carthaginian general
Sun Tzu
Military strategist
Samory Toure
Founder of the Wassoulou Empire
Behanzin
King of Dahomey
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