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Franz Moritz von Lacy
Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801) was an Austrian field marshal and military reformer who, as president of the Hofkriegsrat, directed the reforms of the Maria-Theresian and Josephine era.
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford
Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, was a British Army general who led the 1879 invasion of Zululand, suffering defeat at Isandlwana before winning at Ulundi.
Frederick Browning
Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning (1896-1965), British lieutenant-general, Grenadier Guards DSO winner, husband of Daphne du Maurier, builder of Britain's airborne forces and corps commander at Operation Market Garden.
Frederick Kagan
Frederick W. Kagan (born 1970) is an American military historian, AEI senior fellow, and director of its Critical Threats Project. A Yale-trained historian of Russia and former West Point professor, he authored Choosing Victory (2007), the plan behind the Iraq troop surge, and later advised on Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), 'Bobs', British field marshal; Victoria Cross winner in the Indian Mutiny, victor of Kandahar 1880, commander in the Boer War, and last Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.
Friedrich Fromm
Friedrich Fromm (1888–1945), German Generaloberst, Chief of Army Armament and Commander of the Replacement Army 1939–1944. Urged peace from 1941, tolerated the 20 July 1944 plot, then had Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators shot; executed by the Nazi regime in March 1945.
Friedrich Graf von Wrangel
Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), "Papa Wrangel", Prussian Generalfeldmarschall born in Stettin; suppressed the 1848 Berlin revolution, commanded Confederation troops against Denmark in 1848 and 1864, became count in 1864.
Friedrich Olbricht
Friedrich Olbricht (1888–1944), German General der Infanterie and head of the Allgemeines Heeresamt, reworked Operation Valkyrie into a coup plan, triggered it on July 20, 1944, and was shot that night in the Bendlerblock courtyard.
Friedrich Paulus
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (1890–1957), German field marshal, commanded the Sixth Army at Stalingrad, surrendered 31 January 1943, later joined the National Committee for a Free Germany and testified at Nuremberg.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730-1794), Baron von Steuben, Prussian officer and Continental Army inspector general who trained American troops at Valley Forge, wrote the 1779 Blue Book drill manual, shaped the Army NCO corps, and founded the Inspector General system.
G. D. Bakshi
G. D. Bakshi (Gagandeep Bakshi, born 1950, Jabalpur) is a retired Indian Army major general, SM and VSM, PhD in strategic studies, prolific military-history author, and combative Republic TV defence commentator known for hawkish views on Pakistan and Bose-centered historical claims.
Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913), Anglo-Irish field-marshal of Red River, Ashanti, Tel-el-Kebir, and Gordon relief fame; also the reformer behind the modern British Army and the phrase 'All Sir Garnet.'
Gatot Soebroto
Gatot Soebroto (also written Gatot Subroto) was an Indonesian army general who crushed the 1948 Communist rebellion at Madiun and was named a National Hero in 1962.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), Prussian field marshal, nicknamed Marshal Forward, commanded Prussia's armies at Katzbach, Leipzig, the 1814 invasion of France, and Waterloo, where his arrival decided the battle.
Geoffrey Cardozo
Geoffrey Cardozo is a retired British Army colonel of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who organized the burial of Argentine war dead after the 1982 Falklands War.
George B. McClellan
George B. McClellan (1826–1885), Union general-in-chief and organizer of the Army of the Potomac, led the failed Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam, ran against Lincoln in 1864, and later served as governor of New Jersey.
George C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall Jr. (1880–1959), American General of the Army and statesman; not to be confused with Chief Justice John Marshall. Chief of Staff 1939–45, Secretary of State 1947–49, Secretary of Defense 1950–51, architect of the Marshall Plan and 1953 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
George Crook
George Crook (1828–1890), Union general and U.S. Army commander in the Indian Wars: Paiute, Apache, and Great Sioux War campaigns, Battle of the Rosebud, and later advocacy of Native American rights.
George Patton IV
George Smith Patton IV (1923-2004), also George S. Patton IV, U.S. Army major general, son of WWII general George S. Patton Jr.; West Point 1946, Korea and Vietnam veteran, two Distinguished Service Crosses, commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry and 2nd Armored Division.
George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818), Virginia surveyor and Revolutionary War militia officer, led the 1778–1779 Illinois Campaign, capturing Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Fort Sackville at Vincennes and securing US claims north of the Ohio River.
George S. Patton
George S. Patton (1885–1945), US Army general, led the Third Army across Europe in World War II after commanding in North Africa and Sicily; also a 1912 Olympic modern pentathlete.
George Stoneman
George Stoneman (1822–1894), Union major general and California governor, led the 1863 Chancellorsville cavalry raid and the 1865 Carolina raid, was captured near Macon in 1864, and governed Virginia and California.
George Washington Custis Lee
George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913), eldest son of Robert E. Lee, Confederate staff officer under Jefferson Davis captured at Sailor's Creek, VMI engineering professor, and president of Washington and Lee University 1871-1897 who recovered Arlington.
George Washington in the American Revolution
George Washington in the American Revolution: his 1775-1783 service as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, from the Siege of Boston and Trenton through Valley Forge to the French-allied victory at Yorktown and his December 1783 resignation.
Georgi Todorov (general)
Georgi Stoyanov Todorov (Георги Стоянов Тодоров, 1858–1934) was a Bulgarian general of infantry who fought in five consecutive wars, from the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 to the First World War.
Georgios Papadopoulos (Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος)
Georgios Papadopoulos (Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος), 1919–1999, Greek artillery colonel who led the 21 April 1967 coup, ruled the Regime of the Colonels as prime minister and later president, and died in prison after a treason conviction.
Georgy Zhukov (Георгий Константинович Жуков)
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Георгий Константинович Жуков, 1896–1974), Marshal of the Soviet Union and four-time Hero, led Leningrad's defense, Moscow, Kursk coordination, Operation Bagration, and Berlin, and accepted Germany's 1945 surrender.
Gerald Templer
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer (1898–1979) was a British Army officer who led the campaign against the Malayan Emergency from 1952 and coined "hearts and minds".
Gerd von Rundstedt
Gerd von Rundstedt, born Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, was a German field marshal who commanded German forces on the Western Front from 1942 to 1945.
Gheorghe Cantacuzino-Grănicerul
Gheorghe Cantacuzino-Grănicerul (1869–1937) was a Romanian general and aristocrat of the Cantacuzino princely family who joined the Iron Guard and founded and led its legal political party, All for the Fatherland.