Sir William Wallace of Elderslie was one of the greatest Scottish folk heroes when he led a rebellion against the British occupiers.
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William Wallace
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan is even today a concept for many people. However, the fact that behind this name, a title and no real name for a human hides, is less well known.
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Richard I. (Richard the Lionheart)
Richard I was one of the most famous English kings, who gained his nickname "Lionheart" in his participation in the Third Crusade, rather by an inglorious behavior of his army.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne Carolus Magnus (Charlemagne) was born in 747 or 748 as the son of King Pippin III. born in the Frankish kingdom. His later dominion encompassed much of today's France, western and southern Germany, Italy and Spain. It was he who was able to regain the imperial dignity since antiquity.
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Attila the Hunnic leader
Attila was the ruler of the Huns and was able to build an entertaining empire in the area of present-day Hungary in the 5th century.
Especially by his tactics of campaigns and tribute claims against the West and East Roman Empire, he made himself talked of.
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Vercingetorix
Vercingetorix was the eminent leader of a rebellion of the Gauls against the occupation of the country by the Roman legions led by Julius Caesar, whose rebellion was courageous but in the end meaningless.
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Gaius Julius Caesar
The Roman Empire is associated with no other personality as much as with Julius Caesar. He went through the Roman civil service career, achieved victories in campaigns and led the Republic in the time of the dictatorship.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great, born on July 20, 356 BC Pella, the son of King Philip II of Macedonia and Queen of Olympia, achieved considerable success within a few years as a gifted and bold military general, and in addition to parts of Greece, Egypt, even conquered parts of the Indian territory.
Alexander's father, King Philip II,...
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Xerxes I.
Xerxes I ruled as Achaemenid king and Egyptian pharaoh from 486 to 465 BC. About the Persian Empire.
Born 519 BC As the son of the Persian Great King Darius I and Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus II, he joined in 486 BC. Chr. The succession of his father as Regent. Right at the beginning of...
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