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Executed military leaders

  • John Dudley, 1st Duke of NorthumberlandJohn Dudley was seven years old when his father, Edmund Dudley, was executed for high treason in 1510. The new king, Henry VIII, needed scapegoats for the…
  • Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of SomersetEdward Seymour was born around the year 1500. He entered the household of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, in 1514 at about fourteen years old.
  • Ion AntonescuIon Antonescu was born in the town of Pitești, north-west of the capital Bucharest. He grew up as the scion of an upper-middle class Romanian Orthodox family…
  • Hideki TojoHideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on the 30th of December 1884. He entered a world where society remained rigidly divided into four…
  • Michel NeyMichel Ney was born in the town of Sarrelouis on the 10th of January 1769. He grew up as the second son of Pierre Ney, a master cooper who had served in the…