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The Gauls were not conquered by the Roman legions, but by Caesar. It was not before the Carthaginian soldiers that Rome was made to tremble, but before Hannibal. It was not the Macedonian phalanx which reached India, but Alexander. It was not the French army that reached Weser and the Inn; it was Turenne. Prussia was not defended for seven years against the three most formidable European powers by the Prussian soldiers but by Frederick the Great. |
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1874 - 1965. After being educated at Harrow he went to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. On 10th May, 1940, George VI appointed Churchill as prime minister. Churchill was one of the greatest Prime Ministers that Britain has ever had. Churchill returned to power after the 1951 General Election. After the publication of his six volume, The Second World War, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life, from cradle to grave, in the United States Army. Douglas MacArthur was one of the most popular and accomplished U. S. military leaders of the 20th century, known primarily for commanding Allied forces in the southwest Pacific during World War II. |
 General George S. Patton, Jr. (Old blood and guts) 1885 -1945 American General and tank commander, whose bold armored advance across France and Germany in 1944 and 1945 made a significant contribution to Allied victory in World War II . |
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Emperor of France
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One of the most brilliant individuals in history, Napoleon Bonaparte was a masterful soldier, an unequalled grand tactician and a superb administrator. He was also utterly ruthless, a dictator and, later in his career, thought he could do no wrong. |
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Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
British Admiral
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Joining the Royal Navy at the age of 12, Horatio Nelson was to rise through the ranks of British sailors, few commanders have ever been as adored as Nelson. He is famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars, most notably in the Battle of Trafalgar, where he lost his life. He became a naval hero in the United Kingdom. |
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John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough (1650–1722)
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English general and statesman, one of the greatest military commanders of history. A great strategist and a shrewd diplomat, he has been criticized for inordinate love of wealth and power and for inconstant loyalties in politics. His military genius and remarkable gift for foreign diplomacy were given wide scope in the War of the Spanish Succession. |
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Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)
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Navigator and privateer, is one of the greatest English sea-captains of all time. Revered as a hero in the fight against the Armada. Drake epitomizes the self-made Elizabethan privateer, rapacious in the hunt for treasure (especially Spanish treasure) but daring and visionary in exploration. Drake and his crew are remembered as the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe (1577-1580) in his ship The Golden Hind. |
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Sitting Bull (Tatanka-Iyotanka) 1831-1890. Lakota/Sioux chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, Sitting Bull remained defiant toward American military power and contemptuous of American promises to the end. |
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Cochise ( Hardwood ),1815-1874, chief of the Chiricahua APACHE in Arizona, noted for courage, integrity, and military skill. From 1861, when soldiers unjustly hanged some of his relatives, he warred relentlessly against the U.S. army. Peace talks in 1872 promised him a reservation on his native territory, but after he died his people were removed. |
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Crazy Horse (Tashunkewitko) A Sioux Indian, a warrior, a mystic was born on the Republican River about 1845. He was killed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, in 1877. He was a gentle warrior, a true brave, who stood for the highest ideal of the Sioux. |
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Gaius Julius Caesar (100 ~ 44 B.C) Roman statesman and general. He excelled in war, in statesmanship, and in oratory, was gifted and versatile.
Veni, vidi, vici. 'I came, I saw, I conquered.' These are the words of the man who changed the course of Greco-Roman history. |
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Alexander the Great, (356-323 B.C.) Macedonian king
He was one of the greatest military genius in history. He conquered much of what was then the civilized world, driven by his divine ambition of the world conquest and the creation of a universal world monarchy. |
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Oliver Cromwell: Lord Protector of England (1599-1658)
Oliver Cromwell rose from the middle ranks of English society to be Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, the only non-royal ever to hold that position. He played a leading role in bringing Charles I to trial and to execution; he undertook the most complete and the most brutal military conquest ever undertaken by the English over their neighbours; he championed a degree of religious freedom otherwise unknown in England before the last one hundred years; but the experiment he led collapsed within two years of his death |
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Sir William Wallace ( 1272 - 1305 )
The second son of a minor Scottish laird (lord), and great hero of Scottish independence. He was the leader of the Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long and finally successful struggle to free Scotland from English rule at the end of the 13th century. He fearlessly led his fellow patriots into battle, and gained freedom for Scotland from the tyrannical rule of the English King, Edward I. |
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Alexander the Great