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Harold II
king of England
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Anglo-Saxon earl
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Cerdic
king of Wessex
Ceolwulf
Anglo-Saxon king
Pemulwuy
Australian Aboriginal warrior
William I
William I
king of England
Clovis I
Merovingian king
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Mausoleum of Theodoric
Theodoric
king of Italy
Robert
duke of Apulia
Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Shawnee chief
Saladin
Saladin
Ayyūbid sultan
ʿUmar Tal
Tukulor leader
Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837.
Black Hawk
Sauk and Fox leader
Bohemond I
prince of Otranto and of Antioch
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga
Japanese warrior
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Sitting Bull
Sioux chief
Edward the Confessor and Duke William of Normandy, from the Bayeux Tapestry, embroidery, 11th century, located at the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Bayeux, France.
Edward
king of England [1002?-1066]
Yamaga Sokō
Japanese military strategist
St. Bede the Venerable
St. Bede the Venerable
Anglo-Saxon historian