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South African War
Pancho Villa
Real Irish Republican Army
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Mao Zedong
Chinese leader
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian revolutionary
T.E. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence
British scholar and military officer
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito
president of Yugoslavia
Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Argentine-Cuban revolutionary
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata
Mexican revolutionary
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
leader of al-Qaeda terrorist organization
Daniel Ortega
Daniel Ortega
president of Nicaragua
Marcos, Subcomandante
Subcomandante Marcos
Mexican leader
Doku Umarov
Chechen separatist and guerrilla leader
Abimael Guzmán
Peruvian revolutionary
Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa
Mexican revolutionary
Mohammad Omar
Mohammad Omar
emir of Afghanistan
Abdullah Öcalan
Kurdish terrorist leader
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vietnamese general
Jonas Savimbi
Angolan politician
Michael Collins
Michael Collins
Irish statesman
John Singleton Mosby
John Singleton Mosby
Confederate military officer and statesman
Diponegoro
Javanese leader
Isaias Afwerki
Isaias Afwerki
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