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Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (Moltke der Juengere), 1848-1916, German Chief of the General Staff 1906-1914, nephew of Moltke the Elder; led the 1914 invasion of France, ordered the Marne retreat, and is central to the Schlieffen Plan controversy.
Helmuth Weidling
Helmuth Weidling (1891–1955), German General der Artillerie; LVI Panzer Corps commander at Seelow Heights, then combat commander of Berlin from 24 April 1945; surrendered the city to Soviet forces on 2 May 1945 and died in Soviet captivity in Vladimir.
Helmuth Wilberg
Helmuth Wilberg (1880–1941), German General der Flieger; headed the Reichswehr's secret air staff 1919–1927 and wrote the 1926 Directives and LDv 16, the Luftwaffe's founding doctrine; killed in an air crash near Dresden.
Hemant Karkare
Hemant Karkare (1954–2008), Indian Police Service officer and Maharashtra ATS chief; led the 2008 Malegaon blast investigation arresting 11 including Pragya Thakur and Col Purohit; killed with Kamte and Salaskar in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks; posthumous Ashoka Chakra.
Hemu (हेमू)
Hemu (हेमू, Hemchandra Vikramaditya), c. 1501–1556, Sur-dynasty chief minister and general from Rewari who won 22 battles, took Delhi in October 1556, crowned himself Vikramaditya, and died at the Second Battle of Panipat.
Henning von Tresckow
Henning von Tresckow (1901-1944) was a German Wehrmacht general major, chief of staff officer of Army Group Centre, leading organizer of the military resistance to Hitler, failed bomber of Hitler's plane in March 1943, and co-architect of the 20 July 1944 Valkyrie plot.
Henri Winkelman
Henri Gerard Winkelman (1876–1952), Dutch general, commander-in-chief of land and sea forces during the German invasion of May 1940; signed the capitulation at Rijsoord on 15 May 1940, held governmental authority from 13 May, and was a POW at Oflag IV-B Königstein until 1945.
Henry H. Arnold
Henry H. Arnold, known as "Hap," was an American general who commanded the Army Air Forces through World War II and became the first General of the Air Force.
Henry Harvey
Sir Henry Harvey (1737–1810) was a Royal Navy admiral from Eastry, Kent, who commanded the Ramillies at the Glorious First of June and captured Trinidad in 1797.
Henry Hozier
Sir Henry Montague Hozier (1838–1907), British colonel, Times war correspondent, military author (The Seven Weeks' War, The Russo-Turkish War), Secretary of Lloyd's 1874–1890, and father of Clementine Churchill.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox (1750–1806), Boston bookseller turned Continental Army chief of artillery, hauled 60 tons of cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to break the Siege of Boston, and served as the first U.S. secretary of war, 1789–1794.
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.
Henry Morgan
Henry Morgan (c. 1635–1688), Welsh buccaneer and privateer of Port Royal, Jamaica; sacked Porto Bello 1668 and Panama 1671, then knighted and made deputy-governor of Jamaica in 1674.
Henry Percy (Hotspur)
Henry Percy, called Hotspur (1364–1403), English soldier, eldest son of the first earl of Northumberland; famed border captain, victor at Homildon Hill, killed in rebellion against Henry IV at Shrewsbury.
Henry Rathbone
Henry Reed Rathbone, Union Army major in the presidential box at Lincoln's 1865 Ford's Theatre assassination, stabbed by Booth, later killed his wife Clara Harris in 1883 and died in a German asylum in 1911.
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (1864-1925), British general, son of the Assyriologist H. C. Rawlinson; commanded IV Corps at Ypres and Neuve Chapelle, the Fourth Army on the Somme 1916 and at Amiens 1918, then British forces in India until his death.
Henry Reeve (soldier)
Henry Reeve, known as "Enrique el Americano", was an American from Brooklyn who fought for Cuban independence in the Ten Years' War, rising to brigadier general.
Henry Worsley (explorer)
Henry Worsley (1960–2016), British Army lieutenant colonel and polar explorer, distantly related to Frank Worsley; died of peritonitis 30 miles short of completing the first solo, unsupported, unassisted crossing of Antarctica.
Henryk Dembiński
Henryk Dembiński (1791–1864) was a Polish general and engineer who commanded cavalry in the November Uprising and held senior commands in the Hungarian revolution of 1848–1849.
Hephaestion (φαιστίων)
Hephaestion (Ἡφαιστίων), c. 357–324 BCE, Macedonian nobleman, son of Amyntor, closest friend, adviser, and chiliarch of Alexander the Great; died at Ecbatana, honored as a hero.
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), British field marshal who conquered the Sudan at Omdurman in 1898, commanded in the Boer War and India, and as Secretary of State for War raised the New Armies of 1914 before drowning on HMS Hampshire.
Herbert Sobel
Herbert Maxwell Sobel (1912-1987), Easy Company's first commander at Camp Toccoa, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; removed from command in 1944, D-Day jumper, later lieutenant colonel; known from Band of Brothers.
Hercules Mulligan
Hercules Mulligan (1740–1825), Irish-born New York tailor and George Washington's confidential spy in British-occupied Manhattan; not a Culper Ring member; credited with foiling two plots to capture Washington, with courier Cato.
Hermann Balck
Hermann Balck (Georg Otto Hermann Balck) was a German panzer general in World War II, commander of the 11th Panzer Division, 4th Panzer Army, and 6th Army.
Hermann Fegelein
Hermann Fegelein (Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein, 1906-1945), Waffen-SS general, commander of the SS Cavalry Brigade that murdered over 20,000 Jewish civilians in 1941, and Hitler's brother-in-law via Gretl Braun; executed for desertion in the Berlin bunker, 28 or 29 April 1945.
Hermann Hoth
Hermann Hoth (1885-1971), German Generaloberst; commanded Panzer Group 3 in Barbarossa, 17th Army, and 4th Panzer Army (Stalingrad relief, Kursk); dismissed December 1943 after Kiev fell; convicted 1948 in the Nuremberg High Command trial.
Hermann von Salza
Hermann von Salza (Hermann of Salza), fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1209/1210–1239), Thuringian ministerial, mediator between Frederick II and the papacy, founder of the order's Prussian state via the Golden Bull of Rimini.
Hermenegildo Galeana
Hermenegildo Galeana was a Mexican insurgent commander of the War of Independence, one of José María Morelos's principal lieutenants, born in 1762 and killed in 1814.
Herschel Grynszpan
Herschel Grynszpan (1921, Hannover; fate unknown) was a Polish-Jewish refugee who shot German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on 7 November 1938, giving the Nazis the pretext for Kristallnacht; handed to Germany in 1940, he likely died in captivity.
Hershel W. Williams
Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams (1923-2022), Marine Corps chief warrant officer and Medal of Honor recipient for destroying Japanese pillboxes with a flamethrower on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945; last living World War II Medal of Honor recipient.