EVENT

See also Taken Prisoner of War.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Boabdil	Royalty	c. 1459	1527	Last sultan of Granada
Napoleon Bonaparte	Head of State	15-Aug-1769	5-May-1821	Emperor of France
John Burgoyne	Military	1722	4-Jun-1792	Defeated at the Battle of Saratoga
King Charles I	Royalty	19-Nov-1600	30-Jan-1649	King of England, Scotland, Ireland 1625-49
George Rogers Clark	Military	19-Nov-1752	13-Feb-1818	Kentucky frontier military leader
Charles Cornwallis	Military	31-Dec-1738	5-Oct-1805	Surrendered at Yorktown
Crazy Horse	Military	c. 1842	5-Sep-1877	Bayonetted in the back
Stephen Decatur	Military	5-Jan-1779	22-Mar-1820	US Naval commander, fought at Tripoli
Dionysius the Younger	Royalty	397 BC	343 BC	Tyrant of Syracuse
Nathan Bedford Forrest	Military	13-Jul-1821	29-Oct-1877	Confederate Cavalry General
Geronimo	Military	16-Jun-1829	17-Feb-1909	The last Indian to surrender
Hasdrubal	Military	c. 245 BC	207 BC	Carthaginian general, son of Hannibal
Emperor Hirohito	Royalty	29-Apr-1901	7-Jan-1989	Emperor of Japan 1926-89
Frank James	Criminal	10-Jan-1843	18-Feb-1915	Bank robber, with James Gang
Leander Starr Jameson	Head of State	9-Feb-1853	26-Nov-1917	Last Prime Minister of Capetown
Alfred Jodl	Military	10-May-1890	16-Oct-1946	Signed Germany's unconditional WWII surrender
Joseph Eggleston Johnston	Military	3-Feb-1807	21-Mar-1891	Confederate General, surrendered to Sherman
Chief Joseph	Government	c. 1840	21-Sep-1904	"I will fight no more forever"
Robert E. Lee	Military	19-Jan-1807	12-Oct-1870	Confederate General
Napoleon III	Royalty	20-Apr-1808	9-Jan-1873	Emperor of France, 1852-70
Friedrich Paulus	Military	23-Sep-1890	1-Feb-1957	Surrendered to Russians at Stalingrad
Antonio López de Santa Anna	Military	21-Feb-1794	21-Jun-1876	Hero of Tampico
Sitting Bull	Military	c. 1831	15-Dec-1890	Warrior Chief of the Sioux
Edmund Kirby Smith	Military	16-May-1824	28-Mar-1893	Last Confederate general to surrender
Peter Stuyvesant	Government	c. 1592	Feb-1672	Dutch colonial governor
Valerian	Royalty	c. 190 AD	260 AD	Roman Emperor, 253-60 AD
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher	Military	16-Dec-1742	12-Sep-1819	Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
Jonathan M. Wainwright	Military	23-Aug-1883	2-Sep-1953	Commander of the Philippines
George Washington	Head of State	22-Feb-1732	14-Dec-1799	1st US President, 1789-97

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