militia: Quick Facts

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Muqtada al-Sadr

Iraqi Shiʿi leader and cleric

Bashir Gemayel

Lebanese politician

Pierre Gemayel

Lebanese politician

August, Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau

Prussian field marshal

Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst

Prussian general

George Rogers Clark

American military leader and explorer

Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan

Scottish statesman

Albrecht Theodor Emil, count von Roon

Prussian minister of war

Robert Rogers

American soldier

Josiah Winslow

United States military leader

François Hanriot

French military commander

Joseph Warren

American politician

Nicholas Herkimer

American general

Myles Standish

American colonist

Ethan Allen

United States soldier