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Alfred Thayer Mahan
American naval officer, historian (1840–1914)
Alvin York
American soldier (1887–1964)
Andrés Avelino Cáceres
Peruvian politician, military (1836-1923)
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Dominican Republic general (1920-2016)
Audie Murphy
United States Army officer and actor
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
World War II pilot & first African-American US Air Force general (1912–2002)
Billy Mitchell
United States Army WWI general (1879–1936)
Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
American Indian tribal leader (1767–1838)
Carl Spaatz
US Air Force general
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Navy fleet admiral
Claire Lee Chennault
American military aviator (1893–1958)
Cochise
Apache tribe chief (c.1805–1874)
Colin Powell
American general and diplomat (1937–2021)
Crazy Horse
Oglala Sioux leader, Great Plains, North America (1840–1877)
David Farragut
United States Navy admiral
David Petraeus
U.S. Army general and public official
Deodoro da Fonseca
1st President of Brazil
Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea
Eddie Rickenbacker
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and World War I flying ace
Elías Wessin y Wessin
Dominican Republic politician and general (1924-2009)
Ernest J. King
US Navy Admiral (FADM), Chief of Naval Operations
Francisco Caamaño
Dominican soldier and revolutionary leader during the 1965 Civil War
Frank Merrill
United States Army general (1903–1955)
George Armstrong Custer
United States cavalry commander
George B. McClellan
American major general
George C. Marshall
US military leader (1880–1959)
George Dewey
US Navy admiral
George Meade
United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872)
George S. Patton
United States Army general (1885–1945)
Henry H. Arnold
American general (1886–1950)
Ignacio Zaragoza
19th-century Mexican politician and military leader
J. E. B. Stuart
Cavalry general of the Confederate States of America
James Bowie
Historical figure of Texas
James Longstreet
Confederate Army general
Janis Karpinski
American military officer
Jim Mattis
US Marine Corps general in retirement and former US secretary of defense
John Boyd (military strategist)
American fighter pilot and strategist
John Breckinridge Castleman
Confederate Army officer
John J. Pershing
Commanding general of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I
José Víctor Zavala
Guatemalan Field Marshal who participated in the wars of Rafael Carrera and the National War of Nicaragua against the invasion of William Walker (1815-1886)
Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate Army general
Joseph Stilwell
United States Army general
Juan Santamaría
Costa Rican national hero; drummer in the Second Battle of Rivas (1856)
Leonard Wood
5th Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Manuel Baquedano
Chilean politician and general (1823-1897)
Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval
Brazilian military officer
Matthew C. Perry
19th-century American admiral
Matthew Ridgway
United States Army general (1895–1993)
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Confederate States Army general and Ku Klux Klan leader (1821–1877)
Nelson A. Miles
American military officer (1839–1925)
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
United States Army general
Oliver North
American military figure (born 1943)
Omar Bradley
United States Army general (1893–1981)
P. G. T. Beauregard
Confederate States Army general
Pat Tillman
American football player and US Army soldier (1976–2004)
Patrick Cleburne
Confederate States Army general
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
26th President of Argentina
Philip Sheridan
United States Army general
Raymond A. Spruance
United States admiral (1886-1969)
Red Cloud
Leader of the Oglala Lakota (1822–1909)
Richard J. Meadows
US Army Special Forces officer
Robert A. McClure
United States Army general
Robert E. Lee
Confederate States Army general (1807–1870)
Smedley Butler
United States Marine Corps officer and writer (1881–1940)
Stonewall Jackson
Confederate States Army general
Tommy Franks
United States Army general
Ulysses S. Grant
Civil War general and U.S. president
Vicente Guerrero
1st president of Mexico
William B. Travis
Texian Army officer and lawyer (1809–1836)
William D. Leahy
US Navy admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff
William Halsey Jr.
United States Navy admiral
William Tecumseh Sherman
United States Army general (1820–1891)
William Westmoreland
United States Army general (1914–2005)
Winfield Scott
United States Army general (1786–1866)