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I went back to see who we have covered in this series...so far (I may have missed one)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Alexander the Great
Joan of Arc
William Walker (twice)
Erwin Rommel
James Puckle
Prince Henry the Navigator
John Wesley Hardin
Ted Bundy
William Bonney
Lucretia Coffin Mott
Earl Van Dorn
Lafayette
Papa Doc Duvalier
James Reavis
Marie Curie
Jose San Martin
Jim Thorpe
Stephen Decatur
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Zebulon Pike
Black Hawk
Bram Stoker
Enrico Caruso
Pol Pot
Paul Tibbets
William Still
Flying Dutchman
Lon Chaney
H.H. Holmes
Pliny the Elder
Michael Collins
Ivar the Boneless
Carl Linnaeus
"Mother" Mary Harris Jones
William H. Mumler
Catullus
Strabo
Apache Kid
Frederick Law Olmsted
John Smith
Nathaniel Greene
Joseph Brant
Corrie ten Boom
Alexander Fleming
Charles DeRudio
Helen Stephens
Edgar Allen Poe
Jesse James
Stetson Kennedy
John VI of Portugal
Luther Burbank
Joseph Pulitzer
Paul Robeson
George Maledon
Revising my previous response -- German, yes. But there is some murkiness in ancestry -- he was from what was to finally become unified into Germany. Some allegiances were fluid at the time.
Some trivia about our guy ... After Napoleon destroyed his home, he went to Denmark at eleven to military school. He briefly served in the Danish military and was once a page to the King of Denmark before following his career path in the family business. His dad was a Danish General.
Oddly enough, our guy holds the distinction of most likely being the earliest born human to have their voice recorded and preserved. Ironically he was known as ''The Great Silent One''.
Ja!! - the elder... Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke
Prussian army Field Marshal and chief of staff and military mastermind
“No Battle Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy”
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