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Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet was an English politician and peer who served as MP for Bridgwater from 1796 till 1806 and 1807 till 1820.
Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet, English politician and peer (died 1840)
Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, 1st duc de Tarente, was a Marshal of the Empire and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
Jacques MacDonald, French general (born 1765)
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco, also known as Doctor Francia or to Paraguayans of his time as Karai Guasu, was a lawyer, politician, statesman and the first dictator (1…
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (born 1766)
William II was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg from 1840 until his death.
William II became King of the Netherlands after his father William I abdicated the throne.
Bashir Shihab II was a Lebanese emir who ruled the Emirate of Mount Lebanon between 1788 –1840. Born to a branch of the Shihab family which had converted from Sunni Islam, the reli…
Bashir Shihab II (pictured) surrendered to the Ottoman Empire and was removed as Emir of Mount Lebanon after an…