François Michel Le Tellier, Marquis of Louvois (18 January 1641 â 16 July 1691) was the French Secretary of State for War for a significant part of the reign of Louis XIV. Louvois and his father, Michel le Tellier, would increase the French Army to 400,000 soldiers, an army that would fight four wars between 1667 and 1713. He is commonly referred to as “Louvois”.
Prince Frederick Henry Louis of Prussia, commonly known as Henry, was a Prince of Prussia and the younger brother of Frederick the Great. He also served as a general and statesman, leading Prussian armies in the Silesian Wars and the Seven Years’ War, having never lost a battle in the latter. In 1786, he was suggested as a candidate for a monarch for the United States.
Fancisco Caracciolo was born in Naples to a noble family. It is likely that he was named after St. Francis Caracciolo, a saint of the Catholic Church and Francesco’s many times great uncle. He entered the navy and learned his seamanship under Rodney. He fought with distinction in the British service in the American War of Independence, against the Barbary pirates, and against the French at Genoa under Lord Hotham. The Bourbons placed the greatest confidence in his skill. In 1799 Caracciolo was charged with high treason; he had asked to be judged by British officers, which was refused, nor was he allowed to summon witnesses in his defence. He was condemned to death by three votes to two, and as soon as the sentence was communicated to Nelson, the latter ordered that he should be hanged at the yard-arm of the Minerva the next morning, and his body thrown into the sea at sundown. Even the customary twenty-four hours respite for confession was denied him, and his request to be shot instead of hanged refused. The sentence was duly carried out on 30 June 1799.
Richard Caswell Gatlin Civil War Confederate Army Brigadier General. He graduated from United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1832, served as an infantry officer in the war with Mexico, and on frontier duty in Indian Territory. In 1861, he resigned his commission and was appointed Colonel in the Army of the Confederate States.
Edward Ferrero (January 18, 1831 â December 11, 1899) was one of the leading dance instructors, choreographers, and ballroom operators in the United States. He also served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, most remembered for his dishonourable conduct in the Battle of the Crater (July 1864), reported drinking with another general behind the lines, while both their units were virtually destroyed.
Otto Ernst Vinzent Leo von Below (18 January 1857 â 15 March 1944) served as a Prussian general officer in the Imperial German Army during the First World War (1914-1918). He arguably became most notable for his command, along with the Austro-Hungarian commander Svetozar BorojeviÄ, during the victorious Battle of Caporetto in October-November 1917.
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