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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Peter I
Peter I
emperor of Russia
Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelson
British naval commander
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Pericles
Pericles
Athenian statesman
John McCain
John McCain
United States senator
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake
English admiral
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
French statesman
William Bligh
William Bligh
English admiral
Themistocles
Athenian politician and naval strategist
Alfred von Tirpitz
Alfred von Tirpitz
German statesman
Lisa Franchetti
Lisa Franchetti
United States admiral
Jesse L. Brown
Jesse L. Brown
United States Navy officer
Susan Ahn Cuddy at the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
Susan Ahn Cuddy
American naval officer
Husband Edward Kimmel
United States Navy officer
Mildred Helen McAfee
American educator and military commander
Thomas Hudner
Thomas Hudner
United States naval officer
Puller, Chesty
Chesty Puller
United States Marine Corps officer
Cimon
Greek statesman and general

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A soldier standing guard in a Washington, D.C. street with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 8, 1968.
By All Military Meanings Necessary: Vocab Quiz