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Józef Poniatowski
Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813) was a Polish general and Marshal of France who commanded the Duchy of Warsaw's army and died at the Battle of Leipzig.
Józef Sowiński
Józef Sowiński (1777–1831) was a Polish artillery general and one-legged veteran of Borodino who died defending Warsaw's Wola redoubt during the November Uprising against Russia in 1831.
Józef Wysocki
Józef Wysocki (1809–1873) was a Polish general who commanded the Polish Legion in Hungary during the Revolution of 1848 and took part in the 1830 and 1863 risings.
Juliusz Rómmel
Juliusz Rómmel (1881–1967) was a Polish divisional general, praised as a cavalry commander in the 1920 Polish-Soviet War, who commanded Army Łódź and the defense of Warsaw in September 1939.
Karl Parts
Karl Parts was an Estonian military commander, born in 1886, who organized and led the army's armored trains in the War of Independence of 1918–1920, freeing Tapa and Tartu.
Karol Kniaziewicz
Karol Kniaziewicz (1762–1842) was a Polish general who commanded the First Polish Legion in Italy and founded the Danube Legion, helping win the 1800 French victory at Hohenlinden.
Károly Leiningen-Westerburg
Károly Leiningen-Westerburg, born Karl August, Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg, was a Hessian-born count who served as a general in the Hungarian revolutionary army and was executed at Arad in 1849.
Kazimierz Fabrycy
Kazimierz Fabrycy (1888–1958) was a Polish general and vice-minister of military affairs in interwar Poland who commanded the Karpaty and Małopolska Armies in September 1939.
Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha
Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha (Kazimieras Nestoras Sapiega) was a prince of the Sapieha family and General of Lithuanian Artillery who led Lithuanian deputies at the Four-Year Sejm.
Kazimierz Sosnkowski
Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885–1969) was a Polish general and independence activist who served as chief of staff to Józef Piłsudski and commanded the Polish Armed Forces in the West.
Kitsos Tzavelas
Kitsos Tzavelas (Κίτσος Τζαβέλας, born Kyriakos Tzavellas) was a Souliote fighter and general of the Greek War of Independence and Prime Minister of Greece from 1847 to 1848.
Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Voroshilov (Климент Ефремович Ворошилов, 1881–1969), Soviet Marshal and Politburo member; People's Commissar of Defense 1925–1940, Winter War commander, head of state 1953–1960, Stalin loyalist involved in the 1937–1938 purges.
Konstantin Rokossovsky (Константин Константинович Рокоссовский)
Konstantin Rokossovsky (Константин Константинович Рокоссовский), Soviet and Polish marshal (1896–1968), commanded fronts at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Operation Bagration, survived Stalin's purges, led Poland's defense ministry 1949–1956, and commanded the 1945 Victory Parade.
Konstanty Ostrogski
Konstanty Ostrogski (c. 1460–1530) was a Grand Hetman of Lithuania who led the Polish-Lithuanian army to victory over Muscovy at the Battle of Orsha in 1514.
Krsto Popović
Krsto Popović (Крсто Зрнов Поповић) was a Montenegrin general who commanded the 1919 Christmas Uprising against union with Serbia and led the Lovćen Brigade in World War II.
Krzysztof Arciszewski
Krzysztof Arciszewski (1592–1656) was a Polish nobleman, soldier, and engineer who commanded Dutch forces conquering northeastern Brazil and later served as General of the Crown Artillery.
Lajos Aulich
Lajos Aulich, also known as Ludwig Aulich, was a Hungarian general and the last Minister of War of the 1848–49 war of independence, hanged at Arad in 1849.
Lavr Kornilov (Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов)
Lavr Georgievich Kornilov (Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов), 1870–1918, Russian general of infantry, Supreme Commander-in-Chief in August 1917, leader of the Kornilov affair against Kerensky's Provisional Government, and first commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army, killed at Ekaterinodar in 1918.
Lázár Mészáros
Lázár Mészáros (Mészáros Lázár; 1796–1858) was a Hungarian hussar officer and statesman who, as the first Hungarian minister of war, organized the honvéd army of 1848–49.
Leonard Skierski
Leonard Kazimierz Skierski (1866–1940) was a Polish general who served in the Imperial Russian Army, commanded the 4th Army after the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, and was murdered in the Katyn massacre in 1940.
Leonid Govorov (Леонид Александрович Говоров)
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Леонид Александрович Говоров, 1897–1955), Soviet Marshal and Hero of the Soviet Union; artillery specialist who commanded the 5th Army at Moscow and the Leningrad Front, breaking the blockade, later headed Soviet air defense.
Leopold Okulicki
Leopold Okulicki, pseudonym Niedźwiadek, was a Polish brigadier general and the last commander of the Home Army, dissolving it in 1945 before his Soviet arrest.
Levin August von Bennigsen
Levin August von Bennigsen (Leonty Leontyevich Bennigsen, 1745-1826), Hanoverian-born Russian general; commanded at Pultusk, Eylau, Friedland, Borodino, Tarutino, and Leipzig; made count in 1813.
Lucjan Żeligowski
Lucjan Żeligowski (1865–1947) was a Polish general and statesman who staged the 1920 "mutiny" seizing Vilnius, creating the Republic of Central Lithuania that joined Poland in 1922.
Manto Mavrogenous
Manto Mavrogenous (Μαντώ Μαυρογένους) was a Greek heroine of the War of Independence, known as the Heroine of Mykonos, who funded the war with her inherited fortune.
Marcin Kątski
Marcin Kazimierz Kątski, also spelled Kącki or Kontski (1636–1710), was a Polish nobleman who served as general of Crown artillery and commanded the guns at Vienna in 1683.
Marian Langiewicz
Marian Langiewicz (1827–1887) was a Polish general who proclaimed himself dictator of the January Uprising of 1863, commanding about 3,000 insurgents before his arrest by Austrian authorities.
Marko Bezruchko
Marko Bezruchko (Марко Безручко, 1883–1944) was a Ukrainian general-horunzhy of the UNR Army, best known for commanding the defense of Zamość against Budyonny's cavalry in 1920.
Marko Miljanov
Marko Miljanov (Marko Miljanov Popović, Марко Миљанов Поповић; 1833–1901) was a Montenegrin vojvoda and writer from the Kuči tribe who commanded at the 1876 Battle of Fundina.
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski (1893–1964) was a Polish general who founded Służba Zwycięstwu Polski in 1939, the first armed underground organization of occupied Poland, and later served the government-in-exile in London.