James Gordon - Military

Military

  • James B. Gordon (1822–1864), Confederate general
  • Jim Gordon (VC) (1909–1986), Australian soldier awarded the Victoria Cross in 1941
  • James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (1782–1869), British admiral, basis of the fictional character Horatio Hornblower
  • James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne (1620–1649), Scottish royalist commander in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

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