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José Elito Carvalho Siqueira

Army General José Elito Carvalho Siqueira is the current Chief of the Institutional Security Cabinet of Brazil.

Kalapahad

Kalapahad or Kala Pahar (Black Mountain) was the title of an Iconoclast Muslim general of Mughal governor Sultan Sulaiman Karrani of Bengal.

The Death of Smail-aga Čengić

It is based on the real events of Smail-aga Čengić, an Ottoman army general (aga) who is famous for his bravery, but disparaged for his truculence; the main motif is his death, happening after he engages in a battle against the Herzegovinian Montenegrins.


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Abdallah Khalil

Khalil, a former army general, put together a Umma Party/Mahdist coalition on July 5, 1956 and became Prime Minister.

Abdul Ali Malik

His brother Lieutenant General Akhtar Hussain Malik was also an Army general and was himself a hero of 1965 war too.

Alfred Pearson

Alfred L. Pearson (1838–1903), lawyer and Union Army general in the American Civil War

Archibald Alison

Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet (1826-1907), British Army general (son of the lawyer)

Arthur MacArthur IV

Arthur MacArthur IV (born February 21, 1938, Manila, Philippines) is a concert pianist, writer and artist, the only child of United States Army General and Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur and grandchild of United States Army General Arthur MacArthur.

Asaka-no-miya

Upon returning to Japan, the prince took on leadership positions in the Shanghai Expeditionary Army and Imperial Guard, becoming an army general.

Barnard E. Bee

Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr. (1824–1861), career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War

Bolte

Charles L. Bolte (1895–1989), U.S. Army general and World War I and World War II veteran

Brancker

Sefton Brancker (1877–1930), Royal Air Force air marshal and British Army general

Brown-Potter

Robert Brown Potter (1829–1887), United States lawyer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War

Bryan B. Battaglia

Battaglia serves as the principal military advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin Dempsey and to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on all matters involving the joint and combined total force integration, utilization, health of the force and joint development for enlisted personnel.

Cavit

Cavit Erdel (1884-1933), military officer of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army general

Charles Hay

Lord Charles Hay (c. 1700 – 1760), British Army general and politician

Chicken curry

In 1940, Mrs. W.L. Bullard from Warm Springs, Georgia served this dish under the name "Country Captain" to Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd president of the United States of America) and to General George S. Patton (a distinguished U.S. Army General).

Chinstrap beard

David E. Twiggs, U.S. Army general who wore a chinstrap beard when facial hair in the military was becoming common.

Daily Monitor

This happened soon after the paper had published a letter allegedly written by army General David Sejusa, threatening that those opposing Muhoozi Kainerugaba for presidency risk their lives.

Dannatt

Richard Dannatt, British Army general and former Chief of the General Staff.

Grand Old Man of the Army

General Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham (1805–1900), British Army general, a fifty-three year career

General Winfield Scott (1786–1866), United States Army General serving from the War of 1812 to the American Civil War, a fifty year career

Gyrocam Systems

In addition to Mr. Egner, Gyrocam System’s Board includes two retired Army General Officers, General Leon E. Salomon and General Peter Schoomaker; along with the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, General William L. Nyland; former Under Secretary of Defense, Dr. Jacques Gansler; and strategy and investment experts, Peter Rudaizky and Barry Brott.

Henry Freeman

Henry Blanchard Freeman, U.S. Army general, Medal of Honor recipient during the American Civil War

James O'Connell

James Dunne O'Connell (1899-1984), American army general, chief of Signal Corps

John Craddock

Bantz J. Craddock (full name Bantz John Craddock) (born 1950), United States Army General and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe

John E. Hull

General John Edwin Hull (May 26, 1895, Greenfield, Ohio – June 10, 1975) was a U.S. Army general, former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, commanded Far East Command from 1953–1955 and the U.S. Army, Pacific from 1948-1949.

John Rawlins

John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869), United States Army general during the American Civil War

Jonathan Moore

Jonathan Baker Moore (1825–1889), Wisconsin State Assemblyman and Union Army general

Joseph Johnston

Joseph E. Johnston (1807–1891), United States and Confederate Army general

Kolleru Lake

The royal Oriya army general sacrificed his own daughter to propitiate Gods and ensure his success against Muhammadan and her name was "Perantala Kanama".

Konitsa

Konstantinos Dovas (1898–1973), Prime minister of Greece and Army general.

Lawrence Di Rita

After the toppling of the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Di Rita was assigned to assist retired Army general Jay Garner, Director of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Affairs (ORHA) in Iraq.

Louis R. Douglass

Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Mademoiselle Anaïs

She had an affair with a British Army general and Member of Parliament, Sir Edward Stopford, resulting in the birth in 1819 of a son who also became a British Army general, Edward Stopford Claremont.

Mark Clark

Mark W. Clark (1896–1984), U.S. Army general during World War II and Korean War

Marshall Formby

The other contestants were sitting Governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., who sought an unprecedented fourth two-year term; Don Yarborough, a liberal lawyer and supporter of organized labor from Houston; former Attorney General Will Wilson, later a Republican convert, and retired Army General Edwin A. Walker, known for his staunch anti-communism.

Nassir al-Hiti

Since he has commanded the 2nd Division, he has been supported by United States Army General Raymond T. Odierno, who stated, The security forces here are widely considered to be part of the problem.

Otis family

Army General Harrison Gray Otis bought the paper in 1884 to form the Times-Mirror Company which eventually merged with the Tribune Company in 2000.

Paul Hebert

Paul Octave Hébert (1818–1880), American politician and army general

Price–Harney Truce

The Price–Harney Truce was a document signed on May 21, 1861 between United States Army General William S. Harney (Commander of the U.S. Army's Western Department) and Missouri State Guard commander Sterling Price at the beginning of the American Civil War.

Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet

Oflag IX-C was freed by the Americans of the Third Army (General George S. Patton).

Robert Lee Russell

He was named in honor of Confederate Army General, Robert E. Lee.

Robert Selden Garnett

Robert S. Garnett (1819–1861), U.S. Army officer and Confederate Army general

Robert Souper

He became a member of the Army General Staff, and participated in the Battle of Pisagua (November 2, 1879) and the Battle of Dolores (November 19, 1879); helping capture the Peruvian province of Tarapacá, which was effectively separated from the rest of the country.

Suleiman al-Halabi

The authorities offered to lift his imprisoned father's financial burden if he would assassinate French Army General Jean Baptiste Kléber.

Taguba

Antonio Taguba (b. 1950), a Filipino-American United States Army general

Vandever

William Vandever (1817–1893), American politician and Union Army general

Veatch

James C. Veatch (1819–1895), American lawyer, politician and Union Army general

William Harding Jackson

John Harding's son, Confederate Army General William Giles Harding was Bill Jackson's great-grandfather; he built the Belle Meade Mansion in 1853.

Zanetti

Gregory Zanetti, (contemporary), United States Army general officer

Ziverbey Villa

The mastermind behind Ziverbey interrogations was brigadier general Memduh Ünlütürk, working under lieutenant General Turgut Sunalp, who was reporting to the Commander of First Army, General Faik Türün.