Charles X (1757-1736) became King of France in 1824, upon the death of his brother Louis XVIII. He was born at the Palace of Versailles, on October 9, 1757, to the Dauphin Louis (Louis XV) and the Dauphine Marie Josephe. He was also the younger brother of King Louis XVI, who was executed during the [...]

Louis XVIII (1755-1824) was King of France from 1814 to 1824. He was the younger brother of Louis XVI, who was beheaded during the French Revolution, and son of Louis XV. When the Dauphin of France, Louis XVII, son of the beheaded king, died in 1795, Louis XVIII became the legal successor to the throne. [...]

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, Marquis of Lafayette, was a French military officer and aristocrat who fought in the American Revolutionary War and played an important role in the French Revolution as a commander of the National Guard (Guarde Nationale); ideologically on the center right, he supported a parliamentary monarchy and opposed [...]

Otto Carius (1922- ) was a World War II German tank ace, having destroyed 150 enemy tanks in five years of service. He fought on the Eastern Front, taking part of Operation Barbarossa and the Battle of Narva. Carius is the second highest scoring tank ace in military history, Kurt Knispel being the first. During [...]

Paul Hausser (1880-1972) was first a German Army officer before he became a prominent and capable commander of the Waffen-SS. He was born in the town of Branderburg on the Havel River, Brandenburg, Prussia. His father and grand father had been officers in the Imperial Army. In 1899, Paul Hausser graduated from Berlin-Lichterfelde cadet academy. [...]

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852) was a British Field Marshall and Prime Minister. Regarded as one of the greatest general in history, he commanded the British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces against the French troops in Spain, obtaining a decisive victory at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. In 1815, Arthur Wellesley defeated Napoleon [...]