Millard Fillmore served as the 13th President of the United States from 1850 to 1853. Born in a…
Zachary Taylor served as the 12th President of the United States from 1849 to 1850. Born in Virginia…
James K. Polk served as the 11th President of the United States from 1845 to 1849. A Tennessee…
John Tyler served as the tenth President of the United States from 1841 to 1845. A Virginian born…
William Henry Harrison served as the ninth President of the United States in 1841. Born in Virginia in…
Martin Van Buren served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Born in…
Andrew Jackson served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Born in the…
John Quincy Adams served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. The son…
James Monroe served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A Revolutionary War…
James Madison served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Often called the…
Thomas Jefferson served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Born in Virginia…
John Adams served as the second President of the United States from 1797 to 1801. A Massachusetts lawyer,…
George Washington served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Born in Westmoreland…
Joan of Arc was a young French peasant who led French forces during the Hundred Years' War.
Genghis Khan united the Mongol tribes in 1206 and founded the Mongol Empire.
Hannibal Barca was a Carthaginian general who fought Rome during the Second Punic War.
Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose conquest of Gaul made him one of the most…
Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC and built one of the largest empires of…
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson is Britain's most celebrated naval commander.
Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was one of Britain's greatest military commanders.
Napoleon Bonaparte rose from artillery officer to Emperor of the French and dominated European warfare in the early…
Colin Powell served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993, the first Black…
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. commanded the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, leading the 332nd Fighter Group in…
Admiral Chester Nimitz commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet during World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor.