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David Leslie / Military
A lieutenant-general in the Army of the Covenant; later fought for Charles II.
Henry Shrapnel / Military
Devised a more efficient shell for the battlefield by making it fragment, coining the word shrapnel.
James Paris Lee / Military
Arms inventor whose designs paved the way for the automatic rifle which fought on many frontiers.
John Graham of Claverhouse / Military
Jacobite who defeated the English at Killicrankie.
John Paul Jones / Military
A pirate who went on to found the American Navy.
Lord George Murray / Military
The best Jacobite general who fought for Charles Edward Stewart.
Sir Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven / Military
Commanded the Scottish Army on the side of Parliament against Charles I.
Sir Andrew Noble / Military
A founder of the science of ballistics.
Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde / Military
Commander in chief of the British forces in India during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
Sir David Stirling / Military
Founder and leader of the British Special Air Service (SAS) regiment during World War II.
Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton / Military
Commander in chief in the unsuccessful campaign against Turkey in the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Captain Robert Campbell / Military
The wretched, and unlucky soldier in command of the Glen Coe Massacre.
12 matches in the Military sector