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:

    “There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
    —Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

    “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)

    “Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
    —Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)