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Jean-François Vonck

Belgian political leader

Henri van der Noot

Belgian political leader

Leopold III

king of Belgium

Philippe, King of the Belgians

king of Belgium

Albert I

king of Belgium

Henri-Alexis Brialmont

Belgian engineer

James Fannin

American military figure

Reinhard Gehlen

German general

Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi

French military commander

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

United States military officer

Isaac Stevens

governor of Washington Territory, United States

Walter Campbell Short

United States Army officer

Artemas Ward

United States general

William B. Travis

United States military officer

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

Mexican military officer

Frederick Middleton

Canadian general

Murtala Ramat Mohammed

head of state of Nigeria

John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg

American clergyman and politician

George Washington

president of United States

Mao Zedong

Chinese leader