British
- Henri de Massue
- George Rooke
- George Douglas-Hamilton
- William Shirley
- Edward Braddock
- James Abercrombie
- Jeffery Amherst
- George Howard
- Samuel Hood
- George Townshend
- Robert Clive
- Robert Prescott
- George Prévost
- Stapleton Cotton
- Charles Napier
- Hugh Gough
- Henry Hardinge
- George Pollock
- FitzRoy Somerset
- George Elliot
- Colin Campbell
- Hugh Rose
- Robert Napier
- Frederic Thesiger
- Frederick Roberts
- Garnet Wolseley
- Charles George Gordon
- Evelyn Wood
- Redvers Buller
- Herbert Kitchener
- John French
- Edmund Allenby
- Douglas Haig
- George Milne
- George II of Great Britain
- Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
- Thomas Mathews
- William Pepperrell
- Peter Warren
- James Oglethorpe
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