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| x William Melton | Battle of Myton | Kingdom of England |
William Melton (died 5 April 1340) was the 43rd Archbishop of York (1317–1340).
He was the son of Henry of Melton, and the brother of Henry de Melton. He was born in Melton in the parish of Welton, about nine miles from Kingston upon Hull. He was a...
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| x James Douglas, Lord of Douglas |
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Battle of Myton | Kingdom of Scotland |
Sir James Douglas (also known as Guid Sir James and the Black Douglas), (1286 – August 25, 1330), was a Scottish soldier and knight who fought in the Scottish Wars of Independence. He was a son of Sir William Douglas the Hardy, who had been a...
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| x Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray |
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Battle of Myton | Kingdom of Scotland |
Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray (died 20 July 1332) was Regent of Scotland, an important figure in the Scottish Wars of Independence, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Arbroath.
He is usually described as a nephew of Robert the Bruce...
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| x Uzi Narkiss | Six-Day War | Israel |
Uzi Narkiss (January 6, 1925 - December 17, 1997) was an Israeli general. Narkiss was commander of the Israel Defense Forces units in the Central Region during the Six Day War. Narkiss appears in the famous photograph of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan...
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| x Abdel Hakim Amer | Six-Day War | Egypt |
Abdel Hakim Amer (Arabic: عبد الحكيم عامر) (December 11, 1919– September 14, 1967) was an Egyptian military general and political leader. Born in Astal, Samallot, in the Al Minya Governorate in 1919, He served in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, took...
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| x Zaid ibn Shaker | Six-Day War | Jordan |
Field Marshal Prince Zaid Ibn Shaker, GBE, CVO (1934 - 30 August 2002) (Arabic: الأمير زيد بن شاكر) served as commander in chief of the Jordanian Military for more than twelve years and Prime Minister of Jordan three times.
Field Marshal General of...
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| x Moshe Dayan |
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Six-Day War | Israel |
Moshe Dayan, (Hebrew: משה דיין, 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958), he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel....
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| Yom Kippur War | Israel | |||
| Suez Crisis | Israel | |||
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| x Mordechai Hod | Six-Day War | Israel |
Aluf (Maj. Gen.) Mordechai "Mottie" Hod (September 28, 1926- June 29, 2003) was the Commander of the Israeli Air Force during the 1967 Six-Day War. Born in British Mandated Palestine in Kibbutz Degania, Hod originally took the surname Fein. He...
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| x Ariel Sharon |
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Six-Day War | Israel |
Ariel Sharon (help·info) (Hebrew: אריאל שרון, also known by his diminutive Arik, אַריק) (born Ariel Scheinermann (אריאל שיינרמן) on 26 February 1928) is an Israeli general and statesman, former Israeli Prime Minister. Sharon served as Prime...
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| Yom Kippur War | Israel | |||
| 1982 Lebanon War | Israel | |||
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| x Abdul Munim Riad |
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Six-Day War | Egypt |
Abdul Munim Riad (1919-1969) (Arabic: عبد المنعم رياض) was a general and chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces. He was killed along with several of his aides in an Israeli mortar attack on March 9 1969. Riad commanded the Jordanian forces in...
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| x Hafez al-Assad | Six-Day War | Syria |
Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: حافظ الأسد Ḥāfiẓ al-Asad) (October 6, 1930 – June 10, 2000) was the president of Syria for three decades. Assad's rule stabilized and consolidated the power of the country's central government after decades of coups and...
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| Yom Kippur War | Syria | |||
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| Battle of Jezzine | ||||
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| x Yitzhak Rabin |
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Six-Day War | Israel |
Yitzhak Rabin (help·info) (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין ) (1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
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| x Israel Tal |
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Six-Day War | Israel |
Israel Tal (Hebrew: ישראל טל) (born 1924), also known as Talik (Hebrew: טליק), is an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) general known for his knowledge of tank warfare.
Tal begun his military service with the British Army's Jewish Brigade, serving in...
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| x Simon Fraser | Battle of Roslin | Kingdom of Scotland |
Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver and Neidpath, Knight Banneret fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Simon Fraser was born in Peebleshire (now Tweeddale), where the Clan Fraser was dominant and held power as the Lords of Oliver Castle.
For a time...
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| x John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch | Battle of Roslin | Kingdom of Scotland |
John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch or John "the Red", also known simply as the Red Comyn (died 10 February 1306) was a Scottish nobleman who was an important figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence, and was Guardian of Scotland for a time. He is...
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| x John Comyn, Earl of Buchan | Battle of Slioch |
John Comyn, Earl of Buchan (died 1308) was a Scottish nobleman and an important opponent of King Robert I of Scotland in the civil war that paralleled the War of Scottish Independence. He should not be confused with the better known John III Comyn,...
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| x Shmuel Gonen | Yom Kippur War | Israel |
Shmuel "Gorodish" Gonen (1930 – 30 September 1991) was an Israeli general and Chief of the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War.
Born in Lithuania, Gonen immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine with his...
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| x Rafael Eitan |
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Yom Kippur War | Israel |
Rafael "Raful" Eitan (Hebrew: רפאל "רפול" איתן, born 11 January 1929 - 23 November 2004) was an Israeli general, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member government minister. Born in Afula during...
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| x Aharon Yariv |
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Yom Kippur War | Israel |
Aharon "Aharale" Rabinovich Yariv (Hebrew: אהרן רבינוביץ' יריב, 20 December 1920 – 7 May 1994) was an Israeli politician and soldier.
Born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, Yariv began his military service in the Haganah and later the British Army. He...
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| x Benny Peled | Yom Kippur War | Israel |
Benny Peled (1928–July 13, 2002), born Benjamin Weidenfeld in Tel Aviv, Israel, was the commander of the Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War and Operation Entebbe. He retired with the rank of Aluf (Major General).
Benny Peled served as a...
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| x Yitzhak Hofi | Yom Kippur War | Israel |
Yitzhak Hofi (Hebrew: יצחק חופי) (born 25 January 1927) was the director of Mossad from 1974 to 1982.
Hofi was born in Tel Aviv. He joined the Haganah in 1944 and commanded a company in the Arab-Israeli War in 1948. He continued to serve in the...
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| x Yanush Ben Gal | Yom Kippur War | Israel |
Avigdor "Yanush" Ben-Gal (Hebrew: אביגדור בן-גל), a former Israeli General,was born in Poland in 1936. When he was only three years old, World War II broke out with Germany invading Poland. The family fled to Russia and were sent to Siberia. Yanush...
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| x Rehavam Zeevi |
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Yom Kippur War | Israel |
Rehavam "Gandhi" Ze'evi (help·info) (Hebrew: רחבעם "גנדי" זאבי, born 20 June 1926, died 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. He was assassinated by Hamdi Quran of...
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| x David Elazar |
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Yom Kippur War | Israel |
David "Dado" Elazar (1925 – 1976), was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, serving in that capacity from 1972 to 1974. He was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.
Born in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and of...
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| x Abraham Adan | Yom Kippur War | Israel |
Avraham "Bren" Adan (Hebrew: אברהם "ברן" אדן, born October 1926) is a former Israeli general who served in the military between 1947 and 1973.
Adan was born in Kfar Gileadi, British-Mandate Palestine in 1926. He joined the Palmach, in 1943. During...
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| Battle of Suez | ||||
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| Battle of the Sinai | ||||
| x John of Scotland |
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Battle of Dunbar | Kingdom of Scotland |
John de Balliol (c. 1249 – c. 25 November 1314) was elected King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.
Little of John's early life is known. He was born between 1248 and 1250 at an unknown location, possibilities including Galloway, Picardy and Barnard Castle...
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| x Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke |
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Battle of Methven | Kingdom of England |
Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (c. 1275 – 23 June 1324) was a French-English nobleman. Though primarily active in England, he also had strong connections with the French royal house. One of the wealthiest and most powerful men of his age, he...
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| Battle of Loudoun Hill | ||||
| First War of Scottish Independence | ||||
| Battle of Earnside | ||||
| x Ahmad Ismail Ali | Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
Ahmad Ismail Ali (Arabic: أحمد إسماعيل علي) (October 14, 1917 – December 26, 1974) was the Commander-in-Chief of Egypt's army and minister of war during the Yom Kippur War. He is best known for his planning of the attack across the Suez Canal that...
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| War of Attrition | ||||
| Operation Badr | ||||
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| x Anwar Sadat |
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Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
Muhammad Anwar El Sadat, or Anwar El Sadat (Arabic: محمد أنور السادات, Muḥammad Anwar as-Sādāt) (25 December 1918 - 6 October 1981), was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on 6 October 1981. He was a...
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| Libyan–Egyptian War | ||||
| Operation Badr | ||||
| x Abdul Munim Wassel | Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
Major General Abdul Munim Wassel was the commander of the Egyptian third army during the Yom Kippur War.
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| x Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy | Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
Field Marshal Mouhamed Abdel Ghani el-Gammasy is an Egyptian military leader. He graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1939, and remained in active duty until 1978. He was director of operations for all forces participating in the 1973 Yom...
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| x Mohammed Aly Fahmy | Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
Field Marshal Mohammed Aly Fahmy graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in November 1939. He was the commander of the Egyptian Air Defense Command from May 1969 to January 1975 and chief- of - staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces from January...
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| x Hosni Mubarak |
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Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, (Arabic: محمد حسني مبارك Muḥammad Ḥasnī Mubārak; commonly known as Hosni Mubarak; Arabic: حسني مبارك; (transliterated: Husnī Mubārak), (born 4 May 1928), is the 4th and current President of the Arab Republic of Egypt. He...
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| Air Battle of El Mansoura | ||||
| x Mustafa Tlass |
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Yom Kippur War | Syria |
Lt. Gen. Mustafa Tlass (Arabic: مصطفى طلاس; b. 1932) is a Syrian politician and a long time minister of defense, now retired.
Tlass was born in the Syrian village of al-Rastan near Homs to a Sunni kabyle muslim family. He joined the Ba'ath Party at...
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| Operation Mole Cricket 19 | ||||
| Operation Grapes of Wrath | ||||
| 1982 Lebanon War | ||||
| x Saad El Shazly |
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Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
Saad El Shazly (Arabic:سعد الشاذلي) was born in the city of Basyoun in the Al Gharbiya Governorate. An Egyptian military personality, he was Egypt's chief of staff during the October War. Following his public criticism of the Camp David Accords, he...
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| Battle of the Chinese Farm | ||||
| Operation Badr | ||||
| Battle of Suez | ||||
| x Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel | Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
General Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1941. He assumed command of the Egyptian 2nd Army during the Yom Kippur War, replacing Major General Saaduddin Mamun.
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| x Abu Zikry | Yom Kippur War | Egypt |
Vice admiral Fuad Abu Zikry was the Commander of The Egyptian Naval Force during the Yom Kippur War.
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| x Hasan Salama |
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1948 Arab-Israeli War | Army of the Holy War |
Hasan Salama or Hassan Salameh (Arabic: حسن سلامة, Ḥasan Salāmah) (1945 - 1948) was a commander of the Palestinian Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas, Arabic: جيش الجهاد المقدس) in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War along with Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni...
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| x John Bagot Glubb |
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1948 Arab-Israeli War | Transjordan |
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC better known as Glubb Pasha (born 16 April 1897, Preston, Lancashire – died 17 March 1986, Mayfield, Sussex), was a British soldier best known for leading and training Transjordan's Arab...
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| Siege of Jerusalem | ||||
| x Fawzi Al-Qawuqji |
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1948 Arab-Israeli War | Arab Liberation Army |
Fawzi al-Qawuqji (Arabic: فوزي القاوقجي; 1890–1977) was the field commander of the Arab Liberation Army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and a rival of the principal Arab Palestinian leader, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.
In...
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| x Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni |
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1948 Arab-Israeli War | Army of the Holy War |
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (Arabic: عبد القادر الحسيني, also spelled Abd al-Qader al-Husseini) (1907-1948) was a Palestinian nationalist and fighter who in late 1933 founded the secret militant group known as the Organization for Holy Struggle, ...
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| x Yaakov Dori | 1948 Arab-Israeli War | Israel |
Yaakov Dori (1899–1973) (Hebrew: יעקב דורי) was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Born in the present day Ukraine as Yakov Dostrovsky (Russian: Яков Достровский),son of Tzvi and Myriam, his family emigrated to Ottoman...
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| x Ahmed Ali al-Mwawi | 1948 Arab-Israeli War | Egypt |
Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mwawi (1897–1979?), also Mawawi or Muwawi, was a Major General in the Egyptian Army. He served as the General Commander of the Egyptian expeditionary force during 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Mwawi graduated from the Military Academy in...
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| Battle of Yad Mordechai | ||||
| x Yigael Yadin | 1948 Arab-Israeli War | Israel |
Yigael Yadin (Hebrew: יגאל ידין, born Yigal Sukenik (Hebrew: יגאל סוקניק) on 21 March 1917, died 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, politician, and the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
Yadin was born in 1917 to noted...
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| x Imad Mugniyah |
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Second Lebanon War | Hezbollah |
Imad Fayez Mughniyah (December 7, 1962 - February 12, 2008), also transliterated Mughniyya, Mogniyah, Moughnie, (Arabic: عماد فايز مغنية), alias Hajj Radwan (الحاج رضوان), was a senior member of the Hezbollah organization. He was alternatively...
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| x Udi Adam | Second Lebanon War | Israel |
Aluf Ehud "Udi" Adam (Hebrew: אהוד "אודי" אדם) (born 1959) was a General in the Israel Defense Forces and the former head of the Israeli Northern Command. Adam has received a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Bar Ilan University and later...
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| x Moshe Kaplinsky |
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Second Lebanon War | Israel |
Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky (born 1957), is the CEO of Better Place Israel. Most recently, he was Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously head of the Israel Defense Force's Central Command, whose area of...
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| x Hassan Nasrallah |
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Second Lebanon War | Hezbollah |
Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (born August 31, 1960; Arabic: حسن نصر الله Hassan Nasrallah) is the current and third Secretary General of the Lebanese Islamist party and paramilitary organization Hezbollah. Nasrallah became the leader of Hezbollah after...
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| South Lebanon conflict | Hezbollah | |||
| 2000-2006 Shebaa Farms conflict | ||||
| Battle of Bint Jbeil | ||||
| Operation Grapes of Wrath | ||||
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| x Dan Halutz | Second Lebanon War | Israel |
Dan Halutz (help·info) (Hebrew: דן חלוץ) (born August 7, 1948 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli Air Force Lt. General and former Israeli Air Force commander. Halutz was appointed as Chief of Staff (Hebrew: רמטכ"ל) of the Israel Defense Forces on...
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| 2006 Israel–Gaza conflict | ||||
| Operation Autumn Clouds | ||||
| Battle of Maroun al-Ras | ||||
| Al-Aqsa Intifada | ||||
| x Menachem Begin |
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1982 Lebanon War | Israel |
Menachem Begin (help·info) (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בְּגִין, Polish: Mieczysław Biegun, Russian: Менахем Вольфович Бегин, 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israel politician and the sixth prime minister of the State of Israel. Before the independence,...
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| x Yasser Arafat |
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1982 Lebanon War | Palestine Liberation Organization |
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (ياسر عرفات) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (أبو عمار), was a Palestinian...
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| First Intifada | Palestine Liberation Organization | |||
| Al-Aqsa Intifada | ||||
| Lebanese Civil War | ||||
| Black September in Jordan | ||||
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| x Shimon Peres |
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South Lebanon conflict | Israel |
Shimon Peres (help·info) (Hebrew: שמעון פרס, born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923) is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of...
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| Operation Grapes of Wrath | ||||
| x Antoine Lahad |
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South Lebanon conflict | South Lebanon Army |
Antoine Lahad (born 1927) a Lebanese general, was the leader of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) from 1984 until 2000, when Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon and the SLA was dissolved.
Born into a Maronite Catholic family in 1927 in the village of...
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| x Saad Haddad |
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South Lebanon conflict | South Lebanon Army |
Saad Haddad (1936–1984) was the founder and head of the South Lebanon Army (SLA). Several sources have suggested Haddad's involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacres in 1982.
Since the 1960s, there has been a cyclical pattern of Palestinian...
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| x Pierre Barjot | Suez Crisis | France | ||
| x Gamal Abdel Nasser |
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Suez Crisis | Egypt |
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر; Gamāl or Jamāl ‘Abd an-Nāṣir; 15 January 1918 - 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. He led the bloodless coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk...
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| x Charles Keightley | Suez Crisis | United Kingdom |
General Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, GCB, GBE, DSO (24 June 1901 – 17 June 1974) was a senior officer in the British Army during and following World War II.
He was born in 1901 and was commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards...
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| x Yitzhak Shamir |
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First Intifada | Israel |
Yitzhak Shamir (help·info) (Hebrew: יִצְחָק שָׁמִיר, born October 15, 1915) was Prime Minister of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992.
Yitzhak Shamir was born Icchak Jeziernicky in Ruzhany (Polish: Różana), Russia later Poland. He...
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| x K.P. Candeth |
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Indo-Pak War of 1971 | India |
Kunhiraman Palat Candeth (23 October 1916 – 19 May 2003) was a Major General in the Indian army when he led the operation to liberate Goa from the Portuguese occupation and served briefly as the Lieutenant Governor of the state. Subsequently, he...
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| x Sam Manekshaw |
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Indo-Pak War of 1971 | India |
Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji "Sam Bahadur" Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC (April 3, 1914 – June 27, 2008) was an Indian Army officer. In a long career spanning nearly four decades, Manekshaw rose to be the 8th chief of staff of the Indian Army in 1969...
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| Operation Searchlight | ||||
