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Boston Corbett
Boston Corbett, born Thomas P. Corbett, was an English-born American hatter and Union Army sergeant who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, in 1865.
Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan
Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, also known as Comte d'Artagnan, was a French soldier who led the King's Musketeers and died at the 1673 siege of Maastricht, later becoming the hero of Dumas's novel.
Clay Allison
Robert Clay Allison (1841-1887), "Wolf of the Washita," was a Confederate veteran, Texas-New Mexico rancher and gunfighter. Known for the Griego killing at Cimarron, the Las Animas dance-hall shootout, and death in a 1887 wagon accident near Pecos.
Conrad Heyer
Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 – February 19, 1856), Maine farmer and Revolutionary War veteran of the 25th Continental Regiment, photographed in 1852; credited as earliest-born American photographed, though the Delaware crossing claim is unsupported.
Cor van Gogh
Cor van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's youngest brother, a railway engineer and goldfield worker in the Transvaal who served the Boers and died in Brandfort in 1900.
Frank James
Frank James (Alexander Franklin James, 1843-1915), older brother of Jesse James, Confederate guerrilla with Quantrill at Lawrence, James-Younger Gang bank and train robber, acquitted at 1883 Gallatin trial, later Wild West showman.
Gabriela Silang
Gabriela Silang (Maria Josefa Gabriela Cariño Silang), Filipina revolutionary, led the Ilocos Revolt against Spain for about four months after her husband Diego Silang's 1763 assassination; executed September 20, 1763; first woman to lead a Philippine revolt.
George Cornwallis-West
George Cornwallis-West (1874-1951), born George Frederick Myddelton West, was a Scots Guards officer and author who married Lady Randolph Churchill in 1900 and Mrs Patrick Campbell in 1914, was declared bankrupt, sold the Ruthin Castle and Newlands estates, and died by suicide on 1 April 1951.
Gregor MacGregor
Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845), Scottish soldier and Cazique of Poyais, invented the fictional Central American country of Poyais, floated a £loan on the London market in 1822, and sent settlers to a jungle where most died.
Henry Lee III
Henry Lee III (1756–1818), "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, Continental Army cavalry commander of Lee's Legion, ninth Governor of Virginia, congressman, eulogist of Washington, and father of Robert E. Lee.
James Earp
James Cooksey Earp (1841-1926), eldest Earp brother of Tombstone fame; Union Civil War veteran wounded at Fredericktown, saloon keeper in Tombstone, absent from the O.K. Corral gunfight, died in Los Angeles.
John Joel Glanton
John Joel Glanton (1819–1850), Texas Ranger, Mexican War veteran, and leader of the Glanton scalp-hunting gang under Chihuahua and Sonora bounty contracts; killed by Quechans at the Yuma Crossing ferry in April 1850.
John Owen (centenarian)
John Owen (April 16, 1735 – February 24, 1843), also recorded as John Owens, was a Connecticut-born American centenarian, veteran of the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, who died in Carroll, New York, reportedly aged 107.
Joseph Broussard
Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil (1702-1765), Acadian resistance leader against British rule in Nova Scotia, Fort Beauséjour defender, exile to Louisiana via Saint-Domingue, first Acadian militia captain at Attakapas; 2022 National Historic Person.
Madge Clifford
Madge Clifford, born Margaret Mary Clifford, was a Kerry member of Cumann na mBan who ran guns for the IRA during Ireland's War of Independence.
Manuela Sáenz
Manuela Sáenz (Manuelita Sáenz, La Libertadora), Quito 1797 – Paita 1856, was an Ecuadorean independence figure, Order of the Sun recipient, Bolívar's archivist and ally, and savior of his life in 1828.
Peter Francisco
Peter Francisco (Pedro Francisco, 1760-1831), the "Virginia Giant," a Portuguese-born orphan raised in Virginia who became a celebrated Revolutionary War soldier; his documented service is real, but famous feats like the Camden cannon are largely legend.
Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), American Revolutionary engineer and brigadier general, chief engineer under Washington, founder of the Ohio Company of Associates and of Marietta, Ohio, first Northwest Territory settlement; surveyor-general 1796–1803.
Sam Davis
Sam Davis (1842–1863), Confederate soldier and Coleman's Scouts courier, executed by hanging at Pulaski, Tennessee, on November 27, 1863, after refusing to name his contact; known as the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy" and "the South's Nathan Hale."
Surya Sen (সূর্য সেন)
Surya Sen (সূর্য সেন), Masterda, Bengali revolutionary and schoolteacher who led the 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid with the Indian Republican Army; arrested 1933, hanged 12 January 1934.
Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington (1761-1839), daughter of New York militia colonel Henry Ludington, is the legendary "female Paul Revere": a 16-year-old said to have ridden 40 miles on April 26, 1777 to rally militia against the British raid on Danbury, Connecticut. No contemporary evidence supports the ride, which first appeared in print in 1880.