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A photograph of General Erwin Rommel and his Chief of Staff, Fritz Bayerlein during the North Africa Campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer (1864-1927) who infamously ordered his men to shoot upon an unarmed crowd killing hundreds and wounding over 1,500 men women and children in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 in Amritsar...

Unfinished limestone sculpture of Horemheb and his wife from the tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, probably the reign of Ay, c. 1327-1323 BCE. The sculpture bears no inscription, and when it was acquired by the British Museum...

General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson during the American Civil War, painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau.

General Ulysses S. Grant, oil on canvas portrait by Constant Mayer, 1866. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.

Sir William Johnson saves the life of French General Baron Dieskau after the Battle of Lake George, 1755, oil on canvas painting by Benjamin West, between 1764 and 1768. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

General Thomas Gage, who, in the early days of the American Revolution, served as commander-in-chief of all British armies in North America and as military governor of Massachusetts. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1788...

The death of French General Louis Desaix at the Battle of Marengo, 14 June 1800; in the center left, Napoleon stands witness. Painting by Jean Broc, 1806. Palace of Versailles.

Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587-1629), an officer of the Dutch East India Company and twice the company's Governor-General in the Dutch East Indies, oil on wood portrait after Jacob Waben, 1629. Westfries Museum, Hoorn, The Netherlands.

Mexican General Martín Perfecto de Cos. Illustration in Pioneer Heroes and Daring Deeds, published by Scammell and Company, 1882.