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x Lyndon B. Johnson Picture 1.png World War II United States Navy
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. He served in all four elected offices of...
United States invasion of the Dominican Republic  
Dominican Civil War  
x Nguyen Van Thieu President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Vietnam War South Vietnam
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋʷjə̌ˀn van tʰjə̂ˀw]  ( listen); April 5, 1923 – September 29, 2001) was a general and served as president of South Vietnam (1967-75). Born in a coastal village, central Vietnam (Ninh Thuận Province),...
First Battle of Saigon  
Ho Chi Minh Campaign  
1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt  
x William Westmoreland Gen William C Westmoreland Vietnam War United States of America
William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was an American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968, with the Tet Offensive. He had adopted a strategy of attrition against...
First Battle of Saigon  
Tết Offensive  
Battle of Khe Sanh  
x Richard Nixon Picture 15.png World War II United States of America
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States (1969–1974) and is the only president to resign the office. He was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961). Nixon was born in...
x Creighton Abrams GEN Creighton W Abrams Vietnam War United States of America
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974) was a United States Army General who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-72 which saw U.S. troop strength in Vietnam fall from 530,000 to 30,000. He served...
Cambodian Incursion  
Battle of Bastogne  
x Frederick V, Elector Palatine Gerard van Honthorst 006 Thirty Years' War Bohemia
Frederick V (German: Friedrich V.) (August 26, 1596 – November 29, 1632) was Elector Palatine (1610–23), and, as Frederick I (Czech: Fridrich Falcký), King of Bohemia (1619–20, for his short reign here often nicknamed the Winter King, Czech: Zimní...
Edict of Restitution  
x Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden Gustav II AdolfKing of Sweden Thirty Years' War Sweden
Gustav II Adolf (19 December 1594 – 6 November 1632, O.S.), widely known in English by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus and variously in historical writings sometimes as simply just Gustavus, or Gustavus the Great, or Gustav Adolf the Great, ...
Battle of Lützen  
Battle of Rain  
Edict of Restitution  
Siege of Nuremberg  
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x Johan Banér Johan Banér Thirty Years' War Sweden
Johan Banér (23 June 1596 – 10 May 1641) was a Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War. Johan Banér was born at Djursholm Castle in Uppland. As a four year old he was forced to witness how his father, the Privy Councillour Gustaf Banér, and...
Battle of Wittstock  
Edict of Restitution  
Battle of Chemnitz  
Battle of Breitenfeld  
x Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal Richelieu was the French chief minister from 1624 until his death in 1642 Thirty Years' War France
Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman. Consecrated as a bishop in 1608, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616....
Edict of Restitution  
War of the Mantuan Succession  
Siege of La Rochelle  
x Christian IV of Denmark King Christian IV Thirty Years' War Denmark-Norway
Christian IV (12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648) was the king of Denmark and Norway from 1588 until his death. He is sometimes referred to as Christian Firtal in Denmark and Christian Kvart or Quart in Norway. The son of Frederick II, king of Denmark...
Edict of Restitution  
Action of 13 October 1644  
Hannibal War  
Battle of Lutter  
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x Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar Thirty Years' War Saxony
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (German: Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar) (16 August 1604 – 18 July 1639) was a German prince and general in the Thirty Years' War. Born in Weimar within the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Bernard was the eleventh son of Johann, Duke of...
Battle of Nördlingen  
Battle of Lützen  
Edict of Restitution  
Battle of Breisach  
x John George I, Elector of Saxony Monument to John George in Johanngeorgstadt Thirty Years' War Saxony
John George I (German: Johann Georg I; 5 March 1585 – 8 October 1656) was Elector of Saxony from 1611 to 1656. Born in Dresden, he was the second son of the Elector Christian I and Sophie of Brandenburg. He succeeded to the electorate in 23 June...
Battle of Wittstock  
Edict of Restitution  
Battle of Breitenfeld  
x Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin World War II Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of...
Pacific War  
Operation Barbarossa  
Battle of Stalingrad  
Korean War  
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x Winston Churchill Winston Churchill World War II United Kingdom
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and...
Pacific War  
Operation Sealion  
x Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek World War II Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek (traditional Chinese: 蔣中正 / 蔣介石; simplified Chinese: 蒋中正 / 蒋介石; pinyin: Jiǎng Jièshí; but see names below) (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of...
Pacific War  
Second Sino-Japanese War  
Battle of Shanghai  
Battle of Wuhan  
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x Charles de Gaulle De Gaulle za vrijeme inspekcije vojske World War II France
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (French pronunciation: [də ˈɡoːl]  ( listen), English: /də ˈɡɔːl/; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the...
Battle of Gabon  
Battle of Dakar  
West Africa Campaign  
Western Front  
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x Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler cph 3a48970 World War II Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler (German pronunciation: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ], 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,...
Operation Barbarossa  
Battle of Stalingrad  
Eastern Front  
Battle of the Bulge  
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x Hideki Tojo Hideki Tōjō World War II Japan
Hideki Tōjō (Kyūjitai: 東條 英機; Shinjitai: 東条 英機; Tōjō Hideki (help·info)) (30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from 18 October 1941 to 22...
Pacific War  
Second Sino-Japanese War  
x Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini World War II Italy
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, KSMOM GCTE (29 July 1883 - 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. He became the Prime Minister of...
Second Italo-Abyssinian War  
National Liberation War of Macedonia  
Fascist and anti-Fascist violence in Italy  
Italian Campaign  
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x George Armstrong Custer G a custer Battle of the Little Bighorn United States of America
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars who today is most remembered for a disastrous military engagement known as the Battle of...
Battle of Appomattox Station  
Battle of Waynesboro  
   
Battle of Washita River  
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x Jean de Beaune   Quasi-War France  
x Zuo Zongtang Zuo Zongtang Taiping Rebellion  
Zuo Zongtang, 1st Marquess Kejing of the Second Class (Chinese: 左宗棠; pinyin: Zuǒ Zōngtáng, pronouced [tswɔ̀ tsʊ́ŋtʰɑ̌ŋ]; Courtesy name: Jigao traditional Chinese: 季高) (November 10, 1812 - September 5, 1885), spelled Tso Tsung-t'ang in Wade-Giles and...
Muslim Rebellion  
Fujian Pocket  
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom  
Nien Rebellion  
x Leonidas I Statue of Leonidas I of Sparta Battle of Thermopylae Sparta
Leonidas (pronounced /liːˈɒnɨdəs/, Greek: Λεωνίδας; "Lion's son", "Lion-like") was a king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Heracles,...
Greco-Persian Wars  
Second Persian invasion of Greece  
x Xerxes I of Persia Xerxes Battle of Thermopylae Persian Empire
Xerxes the Great, also known as Xerxes I of Persia, (Old Persian: ��������������; Xšayāršā) (reigned 485–465 BC) was a Zoroastrian Persian Shahanshah (Emperor) of the Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes was the son of Darius the Great and his wife Atossa. He...
Battle of Salamis  
Greco-Persian Wars  
Second Persian invasion of Greece  
Wars of the Delian League  
x Joshua Bean   Antonio Garra revolt  
Joshua H. Bean (c. 1818 – November 7, 1852) was an American political figure. Bean was born c. 1818 in Mason County, Kentucky to Phantly Roy Bean (November 21, 1804 – June 13, 1844) and his wife Anna Gore. His paternal grandparents were Benjamin...
x Che Guevara Alberto Korda's photograph of Che Guevara Cuban Revolution  
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban...
Bay of Pigs Invasion  
Battle of Santa Clara  
Battle of Las Mercedes  
x Fidel Castro Fidel Castro Cuban Revolution  
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until...
Bay of Pigs Invasion  
Moncada Barracks  
Operation Verano  
Battle of Las Mercedes  
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x Prince Eugene of Savoy Prince Eugene of Savoy by Jacob van Schuppen War of the Spanish Succession Habsburg Monarchy
François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736), was one of the most prominent and successful military commanders in European history. Born in Paris to aristocratic Savoyard parents, Eugene grew up around the French court...
Battle of Chiari  
Battle of Cassano  
Battle of Carpi  
Battle of Toulon  
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x Clovis I Statue depicting the baptism of Clovis by Saint Remigius. Battle of Vouillé Franks
Clovis (c. 466-511) was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one king. He also introduced Christianity. He was the son of Childeric I and Basina. At age 16, he succeeded his father, in the year 481. The Salian Franks...
Battle of Soissons  
Battle of Tolbiac  
x Porfirio Díaz Porfirio diaz002   Mexico
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (September 15, 1830 – 2 July 1915) was the President of Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911, and one of the most controversial figures of the country. The term Porfiriato refers to the years when Díaz...
Battle of Tecoac  
French intervention in Mexico  
x Brian Boru A 19th century engraving of Brian Boru Battle of Clontarf  
Brian mac Cennétig, called Brian Bóruma, Brian Boru, Emperor of the Irish (c. 941–23 April 1014), (English: Brian Boru, Irish: Brian Bórumha or Brian Bóru), was an Irish king who ended the centuries-long domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by...
Battle of Glenmama  
x Edward Bruce   Irish Bruce Wars 1315-1318  
Edward de Brus (Medieval Gaelic: Edubard a Briuis), modernised Edward the Bruce or Edward of Bruce (Modern Scottish Gaelic: Eideard Bruis/Iomhair Bruis; c. 1280–October 14, 1318) was a younger brother of King Robert I of Scotland, who supported his...
Battle of Faughart  
Battle of Slioch  
Battle of Connor  
Battle of Skerries  
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x Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York Richard Duke of York Battle of Wakefield  
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (21 September, 1411 – 30 December, 1460) was a leading English magnate, descended from King Edward III. He inherited great estates, and served in various offices of state in France at the end of the Hundred...
First Battle of St Albans  
Battle of Ludford Bridge  
Wars of the Roses  
x Robert Nivelle General Nivelle during World War I Second Battle of the Aisne France
Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War. He took command of one of the main French armies engaged in the Battle of Verdun, leading it during...
Second Battle of the Aisne  
Battle of Verdun  
European theatre of World War I  
x Erich Ludendorff Ludendorff in 1918 Second Battle of the Aisne Germany
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (sometimes given incorrectly as von Ludendorff) (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German Army officer, victor of Liège, and, with Paul von Hindenburg, one of the victors of the battle of Tannenberg. From...
Second Battle of Passchendale  
Battle of Moreuil Wood  
Third Battle of the Aisne  
Battle of Tannenberg  
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x Albrecht von Wallenstein Albrecht von Wallenstein Battle of Dessau Bridge Catholic
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (help·info) (also Waldstein; Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna September 24, 1583 – February 25, 1634), a Bohemian soldier and politician, gave his services (an army of 30,000 to 100,000 men)...
Battle of Stralsund  
Battle of Lützen  
Thirty Years' War  
Edict of Restitution  
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x Ernst von Mansfeld Ernst von Mansfeld Battle of Dessau Bridge Protestantism
Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld (c. 1580 – 29 November 1626) was a German military commander. Mansfeld was an illegitimate son of Graf Peter Ernst von Mansfeld (1517-1604), and passed his early years in his father's palace at Luxembourg. He gained his...
Siege of Breda  
Battle of Fleurus  
Siege of Pilsen  
Battle of Záblatí  
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x Georg Carl von Döbeln Georg Carl von Döbeln Battle of Kauhajoki  
Georg Carl von Döbeln (29 April 1758 – 16 February 1820) was a Swedish friherre (baron), Lieutenant General and war hero. Georg Carl was born at the Stora Torpa manor in Segerstads parish in Västergötland (now Falköping Municipality) to Johan Jakob...
Finnish War  
Battle of Siikajoki  
Battle of Jutas  
Battle of Pyhäjoki  
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x Johan August Sandels Johan August Sandels Battle of Kauhajoki  
Count Johan August Sandels (August 31, 1764 in Stockholm – January 22, 1831) was a Swedish soldier and politician, being appointed Governor of Norway (Riksståthållare in Swedish, Rigsstatholder in Dano-Norwegian) 1818 and Field Marshal in 1824. He...
Battle of Pulkkila  
Battle of Koljonvirta  
x Alaric II Location of Visigothic Kingdom Battle of Vouillé Visigoth
Alaric II, also known as Alarik, Alarich, and Alarico in Spanish and Portuguese or Alaricus in Latin (d. 507) succeeded his father Euric in 485 and became eighth king of the Visigoths. He established his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Vicus Julii)....
x David Petraeus David Petraeus Iraq War United States of America
General David Howell Petraeus, USA (born November 7, 1952) is the 10th and current Commander, U.S. Central Command. Petraeus previously served as Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) from January 26, 2007 to September 16, 2008. As...
Iraq War Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq
Iraq War United States Army
War on Terrorism  
Operation Enduring Freedom  
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x Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela   Umkhonto we Sizwe
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; born 18 July 1918 in Transkei, South Africa) is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, who held office from...
x Arthur Goldreich     Umkhonto we Sizwe
Arthur Goldreich was an abstract painter born in 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a key figure in the anti-apartheid movement in the country of his birth. Goldreich settled in Israel, where he participated in the 1948 war as a member of the...
x Walter Sisulu Walter Sisulu   Umkhonto we Sizwe
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (May 18, 1912 – May 5, 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was born in Engcobo in the homeland of Transkei (now part of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa)...
x Arthur Travers Harris Arthur Travers Harris Battle of Berlin  
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet GCB OBE AFC RAF (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press, and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief ...
Big Week  
Defense of the Reich  
Battle of the Ruhr  
Bombing of Kassel in World War II  
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x Oliver Cromwell An unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper Second English Civil War Roundhead
Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599 Old Style – September 3, 1658 Old Style) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England...
English Civil War Roundhead
Third English Civil War Roundhead
First English Civil War Roundhead
Irish Confederate Wars  
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x Ngo Dinh Diem   Vietnam War South Vietnam  
x Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Battle of the Bulge United States of America
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the...
Mediterranean Theatre of World War II United States of America
Battle of Normandy United States of America
Tunisia Campaign United States of America
World War II United States of America
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x John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy Portrait World War II United States Navy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29 , 1917 – November 22 , 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy , was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Major events...
Operation Chopper  
x Gerald Ford Picture 2.png World War II United States of America
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) (July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the...
Fall of Saigon  
x Robert McNamara Robert McNamara Vietnam War United States of America
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968. Following that he served as President of...
x Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister (1979 - 1990) Falklands War United Kingdom
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the only woman to have held either post...
Gulf War  
x Leopoldo Galtieri Leopoldo Galtieri Falklands War Argentina
Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (July 15, 1926 - January 12, 2003) was an Argentine general and President of Argentina from December 22, 1981 to June 18, 1982, during the last military dictatorship (known officially as the National...
x John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey   First War of Scottish Independence Kingdom of England
John de Warenne (1231 – c. 29 September 1304), 7th Earl of Surrey or Warenne, was prominent during the reigns of Henry III and Edward I. During his long life he fought in the Second Barons' War and in Edward I's wars in Scotland. He was the son of...
Battle of Stirling Bridge Kingdom of England
Battle of Dunbar Kingdom of England
Second Barons' War  
x Edward II of England Edward II, depicted in Cassell's History of England, published circa 1902 First War of Scottish Independence Kingdom of England
Edward II, (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327?) called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. He was the seventh Plantagenet king, in a line that began with the reign of Henry II. Interspersed...
Battle of Bannockburn Kingdom of England
War of Saint-Sardos  
x Robert I of Scotland Robert I of Scotland First War of Scottish Independence Kingdom of Scotland
Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329) usually known in modern English as Robert the Bruce (Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys) was King of the Scots from 1306...
Battle of Bannockburn Kingdom of Scotland
Battle of Slioch  
Battle of Pass of Brander  
Battle of Methven Kingdom of Scotland
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x Andrew Moray Andrewmurray First War of Scottish Independence Kingdom of Scotland
Andrew Moray (Latin: Andreas de Moravia), (died late 1297), also known as Andrew de Moray, Andrew of Moray, or Andrew Murray, was a prominent military leader of patriotic forces during the Scottish Wars of Independence. He was responsible for...
Battle of Stirling Bridge Kingdom of Scotland
x William Wallace William Wallace First War of Scottish Independence Kingdom of Scotland
Sir William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas; 1272 – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight and landowner who is known for leading a resistance during the Wars of Scottish Independence and is today remembered in Scotland as a patriot and...
Battle of Stirling Bridge Kingdom of Scotland
Battle of Falkirk Kingdom of Scotland
Battle of Happrew  
Battle of Lanark  
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x Edward I of England King Edward I First War of Scottish Independence Kingdom of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright...
Sieges of Stirling Castle Kingdom of England
Battle of Falkirk Kingdom of England
Battle of Lewes  
Battle of Evesham  
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x Hugh de Cressingham   Battle of Stirling Bridge Kingdom of England
Hugh de Cressingham (died September 11, 1297) was the treasurer of the English administration in Scotland during 1296-97. He was not well liked by the Scots nor the English. He was an advisor to the Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Stirling Bridge....
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