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Benedict Arnold
Army officer and merchant
Bernardo de Gálvez
Spanish General and colonial governor
Cornelio Saavedra
1st President of the Primera Junta and Junta Grande in the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
Daniel Shays
American soldier, revolutionary, leader of Shays' Rebellion
Ethan Allen
18th-century American general
Francis Marion
American revolutionary war officer
Francisco Pizarro
16th-century Spanish conquistador who conquered Peru
Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador
John Barry (naval officer)
18th-century Irish-American naval officer
John Paul Jones
American naval officer
Lautaro
16th-century leader of the Mapuche people
Nathanael Greene
American military officer and planter (1742–1786)
Oliver Hazard Perry
United States Navy officer (1785–1819)
Pontiac (Odawa leader)
18th century Native American war chief
Stephen Decatur
United States naval officer and commodore
Tecun Uman
Great mayan emperor