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A photograph of General Claude Auchinleck (1884-1981) who was Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces in the Middle East and commander of the British Eighth Army during the First Battle of El Alamein (July 1942) during the Western Desert Campaigns...

Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Petersburg, who held off overwhelming Union troops, buying time for Robert E. Lee. Retouched version of a photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1860. National Archives and Records...

Pieter de Carpentier (1586-1659) - Governor General of the Dutch East Indies.

A 1936 photograph of General Ludwig Beck (1880-1944). Beck was a conspirator in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Beck, if the attempt had been succesful, was to have replaced Hitler as the figurehead of the...

Confederate General Braxton Bragg, photograph by an unknown photographer, c. 1861-65, restoration by Adam Cuerden. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

US Brigadier General James Winchester, defeated at the Battle of the River Raisin (January 1813), portrait by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, 1817. Tennessee Portrait Project.

Portrait of General Jean-Nicolas Houchard (1739-1793) who led the French Army of the North to victory against the Coalition at the Battle of Hondschoote, 6-8 September 1793. Houchard's failure to follow up on his victory led to his arrest...

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...

Portrait of General Nathanael Greene, copy of mezzotint by Valentine Green, executed by J. Brown after Charles Willson Peale, 1785. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Portrait of Benjamin Lincoln, a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (no relation to Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president). Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, October 1784. Independence National Historical...