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Sir Evelyn Wood was a British soldier who rose to field marshal after service in the Crimean War, the Indian Rebellion, the Ashanti campaign, southern Africa […]

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Fidel Castro is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and crime, espionage and covert power. These […]

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mythological

Fionn mac Cumhaill is the central hero and leader of the Fianna in the Fenian Cycle of Irish tradition. Stories of Finn, Oisín, Diarmuid and the […]

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1764–c. 1793

Fletcher Christian served as master’s mate on HMS Bounty during William Bligh’s breadfruit expedition to Tahiti. On 28 April 1789 he led mutineers who seized the […]

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1466–1519

Francesco II Gonzaga was marquess of Mantua from 1484 to 1519 and a prominent condottiero in the Italian Wars. Married to Isabella d’Este, he commanded forces […]

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1517–1559

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, was the daughter of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and the mother of Lady Jane Grey. Through this royal descent her […]

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1750–1816

Francisco de Miranda was a Venezuelan soldier, traveller and revolutionary whose career connected the American, French and Spanish Atlantic worlds. He served in the Spanish army, […]

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1436–1517

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros was a Spanish cardinal, reformer and statesman under the Catholic Monarchs. He served as confessor to Isabella I, promoted church reform and […]

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died 1556

Francisco Tenamaztle was an Indigenous Caxcan leader who became one of the principal commanders of the Mixtón War against Spanish rule in New Galicia. After years […]

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1514–1596

Francis Knollys was an English courtier and committed Protestant who married Catherine Carey, a cousin of Elizabeth I. The family lived in exile during Mary I’s […]

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