General · 236 BC – 183 BC
Scipio Africanus
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Charles de Gaulle
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Francisco de Miranda
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Joseph Stalin
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Themistocles
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81Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the warrior-statesman who completed the unification of Japan begun by Oda Nobunaga, rising from peasant origins to rule the entire country before launching ambitious and ill-fated invasions of Korea.
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Pompey
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Cicero
88Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator and philosopher whose speeches and writings defined Latin prose, transmitted Greek philosophy to Rome, and championed the values of the Roman Republic.
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Spartacus
79Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who led the largest slave uprising in the history of the Roman Republic, defeating several Roman armies before his rebellion was crushed — becoming an enduring symbol of resistance to oppression.
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Vercingetorix
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