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George II age 72
King - Great Britain
Elizabeth of Russia age 45
Empress - Russian Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 44
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 61
King - Joseon
Frederick the Great age 43
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor age 47
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Timothy Pickering age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Morgan age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 6
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 24
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 21
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 39
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 29
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Frederick of Sweden age 45
King - Sweden
George Washington age 23
Thomas Jefferson age 12
Adam Smith age 32
Benjamin Franklin age 49
John Adams age 20
James Madison age 4
James Watt age 19
Catherine the Great age 26
Marie Antoinette age 1 month
Louis XVI age 1
Edward Jenner age 6
George III age 17
Alexander Hamilton age 11 months
Paul I of Russia age 1
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 1
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 90
Louis XVIII age 1 month
Peter III of Russia age 27
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 14
Mikhail Kutuzov age 10
Charles III of Spain age 39
Abdul Hamid I age 30
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 8
Ivan VI of Russia age 15
Toussaint Louverture age 12
Samuel Adams age 33
Charles IV of Spain age 7
Gustav III age 9
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 2
Elbridge Gerry age 11
George Clinton age 16
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 12
John Jay age 10
Charles XIII age 7
Frederick William II of Prussia age 11
John Marshall age 2 months
John Hancock age 18
Frederick North, Lord North age 23
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 25
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 17
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 18
Benedict Arnold age 14
Edmund Randolph age 2
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 26
John Paul Jones age 8
Nathanael Greene age 13
John Rutledge age 16
Henry Knox age 5
John Burgoyne age 33
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 3
Oliver Ellsworth age 10
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 25
Thomas Gage age 37
Horatio Gates age 28
Levin August von Bennigsen age 10
Henry Clinton age 25
Anthony Wayne age 10
James McHenry age 2
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 31
Bernardo de Gálvez age 9
Peyton Randolph age 34
William Bradford age 3 months
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 39
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 13
Cuthbert Collingwood age 7
Henry Laurens age 31
Tekle Giyorgis I age 4
Gigar age 10
Prince Euneon age 1
Prince Eunsin age 11 months
José Ramón de Loayza age 4
Crown Prince Sado age 20
Jeongjo of Joseon age 3
Charles Cornwallis age 16
Charles Lee age 23
Comte de Rochambeau age 30
Comte de Grasse age 33
Leopold Philip von Heister age 48
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 2
Victor Amadeus III age 29
Charles Emmanuel IV age 4
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay age 15
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 7
Roger Ducos age 8
Claude Dallemagne age 1
Karl Philipp Sebottendorf age 15
Josef Philipp Vukassovich age 11 months
Gerhard Rosselmini age 13
William Prescott age 29
Israel Putnam age 37
Allan Maclean of Torloisk age 30
Joseph Warren age 14
Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves age 30
Jezzar Pasha age 33
Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko age 15
Charles Mawhood age 26
Antal Lipthay age 10
Murad Bey age 5
Ibrahim Bey age 20
Johann von Hiller age 1
József Alvinczi age 20
Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky age 10
Giovanni Marchese di Provera age 19
Francisco Javier Venegas age 1
Félix María Calleja del Rey, 1st Count of Calderón age 2
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 2
Michael von Melas age 26
Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz age 17
Anton von Zach age 8
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 2
Gregorio García de la Cuesta age 14
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 1
Johann de Kalb age 34
Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie age 4
Eugen von Argentau age 11
Mathias Rukavina von Boynograd age 18
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland age 13
Wilhelm von Knyphausen age 39
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney age 36
Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st Baronet age 26
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 26
Samuel Smith age 3
John Stark age 27
Seth Warner age 12
Friedrich Baum age 28
Heinrich von Breymann age 30
Francisco de Miranda age 5
José de Solano y Bote age 29
John Campbell, of Strachur age 28
Benjamin Lincoln age 22
Lachlan McIntosh age 30
Casimir Pulaski age 10
Ralph Abercromby age 21
Jacques-François Menou age 5
William Phillips age 24
Arthur St. Clair age 18
Alexander Stewart age 16
Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet age 35
Francis Smith age 32
Richard Prescott age 30
John Sullivan age 15
Christopher Greene age 18
George Collier age 17
Henry Mowat age 21
Solomon Lovell age 23
Dudley Saltonstall age 17
William Hull age 2
James Winchester age 3
Richard Pearson age 24
Augustine Prévost age 32
John Maitland age 23
William Moultrie age 25
William Woodford age 21
Abraham Buford age 8
Karl August von Hardenberg age 5
Natalia Alexeievna (Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt) age 5 months
Mustafa III age 38
Esma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 29
Saliha Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 40
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 40
Zeynep Sultan age 41
Zübeyde Sultan age 27
Şehzade Mehmed (son of Ahmed III) age 38
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 10
Adilşah Kadın age 7
Koca Ragıp Pasha age 57
Melek Mehmed Pasha age 36
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 20
Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg age 23
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt age 22
Charles François Dumouriez age 16
Prince Josias of Coburg age 17
Jean Nicolas Houchard age 16
Wilhelm von Freytag age 35
Lazare Carnot age 2
Jacques Ferrand age 9
Jacques François Dugommier age 17
Jean François Carteaux age 4
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 29