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an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and his wife, Maria Luisa of Spain. He was also the younger brother of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. Despite being epileptic, Charles achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of the Austrian army. He was considered one of Napoleon's more formidable opponents. He began his career fighting the revolutionary armies of France. Early in the wars of the First Coalition, he saw victory at Neerwinden in 1793, before being defeated at Wattignies 1793 and Fleurus 1794.
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Archduke Charles of Austria1771, Sep 51792
 
18091847, Apr 30

Henry Clinton1730, Apr 161751
 
17931795, Dec 23
 a British army officer and politician, best known for his service as a general during the America...
Alexandre de Beauharnais1760, May 281775
 
17941794, Jul 23
 a French political figure and general during the French Revolution. He was the first husband of J...
Artemas Ward1727, Nov 261751
 
17951800, Oct 28
 an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts....
Joseph McDowell1758, Feb 251776
 
17951795, May 18
 an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman from Morganton, North Carolina. His estate was name...
Tulaunknown1795
 
 
17951795, Oct 3
 an African man enslaved on the island of Curaçao, in the Dutch West Indies, who liberated himsel...
Anthony Wayne1745, Jan 11775
 
17961796, Dec 15
 a United States Army officer, statesman, and member of the United States House of Representatives...
Oliver Wolcott1726, Nov 201747
 
17971797, Dec 1
 a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and also the Articles of Confederation ...
George Washington1732, Feb111789
 
17971799, Dec 14
 the first President of the United States (1789–97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental A...
Philip Schuyler1733, Nov 101761
 
17981804, Nov 18
 a general in the American Revolution and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually kno...
Thomas Heyward Jr.1746, Jul 281775
 
17981809, Mar 6
 a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as...
Daniel Morgan1736, Jul 61775
 
17991802, Jul 6
 an American pioneer, soldier, and United States Representative from Virginia. One of the most gif...
Joseph McDowell Jr.1756, Mar 81776
 
17991801, Feb 5
 an American planter, soldier, and statesman from North Carolina. He was known as "Quaker Meadows ...
Edward Rutledge1749, Nov 231774
 
18001800, Jan 23
 an American politician, and youngest signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. He ...
James De Lancey [3]1746, Sep 61769
 
18011804, May 2
 a political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis township in the Nova Scotia House of ...
Samuel Mason1739, Nov 81790
 
18031803
 a Virginia militia captain on the American western frontier during the Revolutionary War, who sub...
Henry Knox1750, Jul 251775
 
18051806, Oct 25
 a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, who also served as t...
Peter Muhlenberg1746, Oct 11768
 
18071807, Oct 1
 an American clergyman, Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War, and politi...
John Page1743, Apr 281763
 
18081808, Oct 11
 a figure in early United States history. He served in the U.S. Congress and as the 13th Governor ...
Benjamin Lincoln1733, Jan 131754
 
18091810, May 9
 an American army officer. He served as a major general in the Continental Army during the America...
George Rogers Clark1752, Nov 191774
 
18091818, Feb 13
 a surveyor, soldier, and militia officer from Virginia who became the highest ranking American mi...
Charles Willson Peale1741, Apr 151770
 
18101827, Feb 22
 an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remember...
Paul Revere1734, Dec 211756
 
18111818, May 10
 an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution....
Sybil Ludington1761, Apr 51777
 
18111839, Feb 26
 celebrated as a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. She reportedly rode to alert militia f...
George Clinton [2]1739, Jul 261754
 
18121812, Apr 20
 an American soldier and statesman, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. H...
Zebulon Pike1779, Jan 51799
 
18131813, Apr 27
 an American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. As a United ...
William Howe1729, Aug 101746
 
18141814, Jul 12
 a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the America...
Philip Astley1742, Jan 81759
 
18141814, Jan 27
 an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern ci...
Benjamin Thompson1753, Mar 261766
 
18141814, Aug 21
 an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory w...
Dominique You17751802
 
18141830, Nov 14
 a privateer, soldier, and politician. Jean Lafitte's most trusted lieutenant, and rumored to have...
Joachim Murat1767, Mar 251790
 
18151815, Oct 13
 a Marshal of France and Admiral of France under the reign of Napoleon. He was also the 1st Prince...
Napoleon Bonaparte1769, Aug 151799
 
18151821, May 5
 a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and le...
John Clopton1756, Feb 71776
 
18161816, Sep 11
 a United States Representative from Virginia. He served as first lieutenant and as captain in the...
Frederick Kemmelmeyer1752/531782
 
18161823 ca
 Frederick Kemmelmeyer advertised that he was an artist for the first time in a Baltimore newspape...
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger1752, Feb 171773
 
18171831, Feb 25
 a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave name to the Sturm und Drang...
Isaac Shelby1750, Dec 111774
 
18181826, Jul 18
 the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and Nor...
John Young1742 ca1780
 
18191835, Dec 17
 a British subject who became an important military advisor to KamehamehaI during the formation of...
Philip J. Schuyler1768, Jan 211796
 
18191835, Feb 21
 an American politician from New York. Schuyler lived in Rhinebeck, where he managed farms and est...
Alexander Murray1755, Jul 121773
 
18211821, Oct 6
 an officer who served in the Continental Navy, the Continental Army, and later the United States ...
Molly Pitcher1744, Oct 131777
 
18221832, Jan 22
 a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, generally bel...
Jose de San Martin1778, Feb 251808
 
18221850, Aug 17
 an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful stru...
Joseph Bloomfield1753, Oct 181775
 
18231823, Oct 3
 the fourth Governor of New Jersey. The township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named for him. He at...
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney1746, Feb 251769
 
18251825, Aug 16
 an early American statesman of South Carolina, Revolutionary War veteran, and delegate to the Con...
William Hull1753, Jun 241775
 
18251825, Nov 29
 an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolution and was appointed as Gov...
William Clark [2]1770, Aug 11789
 
18291838, Sep 1
 an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. Along with Meriwether Lewi...
Gilbert du Motier1757, Sep 61771
 
18301834, May 20
 in the U.S. often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fou...
Simon Bolivar1783, Jul 241807
 
18301830, Dec 17
 a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a leading role in the establishment of Vene...
Henry Atkinson17821808
 
18421842, Jun 14
 a United States army officer. He was a native of Person County, North Carolina. He entered the Un...
Morgan Lewis1754, Oct 161774
 
18441844, Apr 7
 an American lawyer, politician, and military commander. The second son of Francis Lewis, a signer...
Henry Sargent1770, Nov 251793
 
18451845, Feb 21
  American painter and military man, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 1793 Sargent went t...
Kazimierz Lux17801795
 
18461846
 an officer of the Polish Legions and a pirate in the Caribbean Sea during the early 19th century....
Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela1782, Mar 191802
 
18491856, Feb 18
 a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. In the field of astronomy, he speciali...
Charles Hamilton Smith1776, Dec 261787
 
18591859, Sep 21
 an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career bega...
Lewis Cass1782, Oct 91806
 
18601866, Jun 17
 an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United St...
Winfield Scott1786, Jun 131807
 
18611866, May 29
 a United States Army general and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. K...
Antoine-Henri Jomini1779, Mar 61798
 
18691869, Mar 24
 a Swiss officer who served as a general in the French and later in the Russian service, and one o...
Major Ridge1771 ca1790
 
1921839
 a Cherokee leader, a member of the tribal council, and a lawmaker. As a warrior, he fought in the...
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