List of Swiss People - Military

Military

  • Pierre Victor Besenval de Bronstatt (1721–1791)
  • Guillaume-Henri Dufour (1787–1875), General, geographer
  • Joachim Forrer (1782–1833)
  • Henri Guisan (1874–1960), General during WWII
  • Hans Herzog (1819–1894), General 1870–1871
  • Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), General, military writer
  • Christophe Keckeis (born 1945), Chief of the Armed Forces (2004–2007)
  • Elmar Mäder, commander of the Swiss Guard (2002–)
  • Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher (1716–1802)
  • Pius Segmüller (born 1952), commander of the Swiss Guard (1998–2002)
  • Theophil Sprecher von Bernegg (1850–1927)
  • Ulrich Wille (1848–1925), General during WWI

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Famous quotes containing the word military:

    “Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
    —Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

    “I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
    —Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)