- El General
El General is a Panamanian musical artist considered by some to be the father of reggaeton. He has a unique, easy to listen to style of dance music and has produced many well known songs all over Latin America. His musical works have become popular in Latin America over the last few years. This style is called Spanish Reggae, because he makes reggae music with Spanish lyrics. This is also called reggaetón. - Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States. - Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf (born August 11 , 1943 , Delhi , India ) became ruler (head of state/chief executive) of Pakistan on October 12 , 1999 following a bloodless coup d'AAtat . He assumed the office of President of Pakistan on June 20 , 2001 . In order to legitimize and legalize his rule, he held a referendum on April 30 , 2002 thereby elected as President of Pakistan for duration of five years. - Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23 1944) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, … - Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as "Général de Gaulle", was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armoured warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armoured and aviation forces. - David Petraeus
David Howell Petraeus (born November 7, 1952) is a general in the United States Army and commander of Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I), the four-star post that oversees all U.S. forces in the country. He was confirmed to that position by the Senate in a vote of 81-0 on January 26 2007. He replaced General George Casey who was subsequently confirmed as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. - Ariel Sharon
"' (also known by his diminutive Arik אָרִיק"' is a former Israeli Prime Minister and military leader whose political career was ended by a massive stroke that he suffered in early 2006. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though the powers of his office were exercised by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following Sharon's stroke on 4 January2006. At that time, Sharon fell into a coma; as of July 2007, … - Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (Latin pronunciation ; English pronunciation ; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC or 102 BC – March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men of World history. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. - Augusto Pinochet
"' The junta members originally planned for the presidency to rotate among the commanders-in-chief of the four military branches. However, Pinochet soon consolidated his control, first retaining sole chairmanship of the military junta, and then proclaiming himself "Supreme Chief of the Nation" (de facto provisional president) on June 27, 1974. He officially changed his title to "President" on December 17. In 1980, by the way of another national referendum, Chile got a new Constitution, … - Douglas MacArthur
Jean Marie Faircloth (December 28, 1898 in Nashville, Tennessee - January 22, 2000), was a socialite and philanthropist. After attending Ward-Belmont College, Faircloth married MacArthur on April 30, 1937. They remained married until the general's death in 1964. She called him "Sir Boss". In her later years she often gave speeches on her late husband's military career. She died at the age of 101 of natural causes on January 22, 2000 in New York City. - Edward Jones
General Sir Charles Edward Webb Jones KCB CVO CBE (25 September 1936 - 14 May 2007) was a senior officer in the British Army. He served as Quartermaster-General and as Britain's military representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He retired from the Army in 1995 to become Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (or simply Black Rod) in the British Parliament's House of Lords, serving in that office until 2001. Jones was born in Altrincham in Cheshire. - Max Weber
Max Weber (27 August 1824 - 15 June 1901) was a military officer in the armies of Germany and later the United States, most known for serving as a brigadier general in the Union army during the American Civil War. Born in Baden-Baden, in the German state of Baden, Weber served as an infantry lieutenant in the Grand Duke's army before the Revolutions of 1848 caused him to emigrate to America, … - Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for the brutal war exercised in his conquest of Ireland. He was born in Huntingdon, seventy miles north of London, into the ranks of the middle gentry, and remained relatively obscure for his first forty years, … - Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson, has been a reporter in Washington since 1979, and has played a key role in "Time" magazine's coverage of national security issues since joining the magazine in 1994. He also currently serves as deputy of the magazine's Washington bureau. He has written the magazine's cover stories on the Army at the breaking point, a second on the wisdom of restarting the military draft, … - Michael Collins
Michael John ("Mick") Collins (16 October, 1890 - 22 August, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations, both as Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army. He was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Irish Civil War. - George Clinton
George Clinton (July 26, 1739 - April 20, 1812) was an American soldier and politician. He was the first (and longest-serving) Governor of New York, and then Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. - John Thomas
John Thomas was an American doctor and soldier from Massachusetts who became a major general in the Continental Army. He was a leader during the siege of Boston. Thomas briefly commanded the withdrawal from Canada after the unsuccessful invasion by the Continental Army. He died from smallpox during the retreat. Thomas was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts. As a young man he studied medicine with Doctor Tufts in Medford before beginning his own practice in Kingston. - Peter Pace
Peter Pace (b. November 5, 1945) is the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first U.S. Marine appointed to be America's highest-ranking military officer. Appointed by George W. Bush, Pace succeeded United States Air Force Gen. Richard Myers on September 30, 2005. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced on June 8, 2007 that he would advise the President not to renominate Pace for a second term, so Pace is expected to step down on September 30, 2007. - Francisco Franco
General Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892-20 November 1975), commonly abbreviated to Francisco Franco or Francisco Franco Bahamonde, and also known as "Caudillo" or "Generalísimo", was the leader and later formal head of state of Spain from October 1936, and of all of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. Franco led a successful military career and reached the rank of General. - George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 - December 21, 1945) was a leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France and Germany, 1943-45. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. After the war he was an advocate of armored warfare but was reassigned to the cavalry. In World War II he commanded major units of North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. - William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (c. 1270-August 23, 1305) was a knight and Scottish patriot, who led a resistance against the English occupation of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence. He is considered the greatest hero in Scotland's history. Wallace was the inspiration for the poem "The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie" by the 15th century minstrel Blind Harry. The 1995 film "Braveheart" is based on the poem. - Pancho Villa
Doroteo Arango Arámbula – better known as Francisco Villa or, by the nickname for Francisco "Pancho". Pancho Villa was one of the foremost leaders of the Mexican Revolution and provisional governor of the state of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. Villa mostly operated in the northern theatre of the war, centering on Chihuahua, in the north of Mexico. - John Martin
John Martin (c.1730-January, 1786) was an American planter, soldier, and politician. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army. His political service includes mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1778), sheriff of Chatham County, Georgia, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, state Treasurer, and revolutionary governor of Georgia from 1782 to 1783. Martin was born in Rhode Island and subsequently moved to Georgia in 1767 with his brother James. - Tommy Franks
Tommy Franks, the allied commander, has since admitted this operation was designed to �degrade� Iraqi air defences in the same way as the air attacks that began the 1991 Gulf war. - Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords. - Charles Stuart
Sir Charles Stuart, KB (January 1753 – 25 May 1801) was a British nobleman and soldier. The fourth son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and Mary Wortley Montagu, he was born in Kenwood House, London. The Hon. Charles Stuart embarked upon a military career in 1768, when he enlisted as an ensign in the 37th Regiment of Foot. He purchased a lieutenantcy in the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers) in 1770 and a captaincy in the 37th Foot in 1775. - James White
James White (August 8, 1747 - August 14, 1821) was an American pioneer and soldier who founded White's Fort, which later became Knoxville, Tennessee. White was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, although the site became part of Iredell County when it was organized. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a captain in the North Carolina militia. During the Creek War, he served as a brigadier general in the Tennessee militia with Andrew Jackson. - Michael Hayden
Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) holds the rank of General in the United States Air Force, and is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. From April 21, 2005-May 26, 2006 he was the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, a position which made him "the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the armed forces," and he is currently the only non-rated Air Force four-star general. - Vera Wang
Vera Wang (born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York, NY, USA. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. She was raised in an affluent family and attended The Chapin School as well as the Sorbonne in Paris. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history. Her mother often took her to fashion shows in Paris. Her father started and owned a chemical company. - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
General (ret.) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born September 9, 1949 in Pacitan, East Java, Indonesia), is an Indonesian retired military general and statesman as well as the sixth President of Indonesia. Yudhoyono won the presidency in September 2004 in the second round of the Indonesian presidential election, in which he defeated incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. He was sworn into office on 20 October 2004, together with Jusuf Kalla as Vice President. - Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold V was a successful Connecticut merchant who fought for American independence from the British Empire as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. In the United States, Arnold is best known for his betrayal of the rebel cause by plotting to surrender the American fort at West Point, New York to the British during the American Revolution. - Ricardo Sanchez
Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sánchez was a United States Army general who served as the commander of coalition forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the United States Army when he retired on 1 November 2006. At the time of his retirement, Lieutenant General Sanchez called his career a casualty of the Abu Ghraib scandal. - Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South. - Richard Myers
General Richard Bowman Myers USAF (Ret.) (born March 1, 1942) is a former general of the United States Air Force and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; as such, he was the United States military's highest ranking officer. General Myers became the fifteenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on October 1, 2001. In this capacity, he served as the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, … - John Abizaid
John Philip Abizaid (born April 1, 1951) is a retired General in the United States Army and former Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), overseeing American military operations in a 27-country region, from the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, to South and Central Asia, covering much of the Middle East. CENTCOM oversees 250,000 US troops. Abizaid succeeded General Tommy Franks as Commander, USCENTCOM, on July 7, 2003, … - Robert Taylor
General Robert Taylor was a general officer of the British Army during the late eighteenth century. In 1783, he was appointed a Cornet in the 5th Dragoon Guards, purchasing his lieutenantcy in 1784 and captaincy in 1785. In June 1790 he purchased his commission as a Major, and as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1792. In 1793 he moved with the regiment from Ireland to Flanders and Germany, where he saw service over the next two years. He was appointed a brevet Colonel in 1796, … - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (January 27, 1826 - April 12, 1879) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was the son of United States President Zachary Taylor and First Lady Margaret Taylor. - Lázaro Cárdenas
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Lázaro Cárdenas was born into a lower-middle class family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacán. He supported his family (including his mother and 7 younger siblings) from age 16 on after the death of his father. By the age of 18 he had worked as a tax collector, a printer's devil, and a jailkeeper. Although he left school at the age of eleven, … - John Baker
General John Stuart Baker, AC, DSM, (24 February1936 - 9 July 2007) was an Australian army general. He was Chief of the Australian Defence Force from July 1995 to July 1998. From 1992 to 1992, he was Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation. Baker joined the Australian Army in 1954, where he graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon 1957, …
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