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Daniel Florence O'Leary

bornactivedied
18011820s-18541854
a military general and aide-de-camp under Simon Bolivar. He was born in Cork, Ireland; his father was Jeremiah O'Leary, a butter merchant. In 1817, he emigrated to South America. After Bolívar's death in 1830, O'Leary disobeyed orders to burn the general's per...
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Alejandro O'Reilly

aka: Alexander, 1st Count of O'Reilly
borndied
1723, Oct 241794, Mar 23
an Irish-born military reformer and Inspector-General of Infantry for the Spanish Empire in the second half of the 18th century. O'Reilly served as the second Spanish governor of colonial Louisiana, and was the first Spanish official to exercise power in the Louisiana territory after France ceded it to Spain following defeat by Great Britain in the Seven Yea...
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Oconostota

aka: Stalking Turkey
borndied
1710 ca1783
a skiagusta of Chota and the First Beloved Man of the Cherokee from 1775 to 1781. Oconostota first appears in historical records in 1736. He was a prominent warrior among the Cherokee, and was called "The Great Warrior of Chota." He may have been influenced by the German utopian Christian Priber, who lived with the Cherokee from about 1735 to 1739. He eventu...
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Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt

aka: Jorge de Darmstadt, Jordi Darmstadt
borndied
16691705, Sep 13
a Field Marshal in the Austrian army. He is known for his career in Habsburg Spain, as Viceroy of Catalonia (1698–1701), head of the Austrian army in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1705) and governor of Gibraltar in 1704. He was killed during the Siege of Barcelona the following year. Born in Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany in 1669, George Louis of H...
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James Oglethorpe

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1696, Dec 221785, Jun 30
a British general, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, as well as the founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's worthy poor in the New World, initially focusing on those in debtors' prisons. In 1728, three years before conceiving the Georgia colony, Oglethorpe chaired a Parliamentary committee on prison refo...
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Dmitri Osten-Sacken

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1789, Apr 241881, Mar 4
a Russian general of Baltic German/Russian descent, member of the State Council, commander in charge of military settlements in the South of Russia during the Crimean War. He participated in Napoleonic wars, Russo-Persian War (1826–28), Russo-Turkish War (1828–29), suppression of the November Uprising in Poland, Russian conquest of Caucasus, and the Crim...
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James Outram

aka: 1st Baronet
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1803, Jan 291863, Mar 11
an English general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In 1825, he was sent to Khandesh, where he trained a light infantry corps, formed of the Bhils, a tribe native to the densely forested hills of that region. He gained over them a marvellous personal influence, and employed them with great success in checking outrages and plunder. Their loyalty to...
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