Name that historical figure!

[Common Soldier]

Osama bin Laden, in a college picture. PS - Anyone can take my turn. Last time I posted a picture, nobody tried guessing.

PS - I repped Akar since Brewster said he could not.

[Akar]

Yes indeed .

[Common Soldier]

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Ok, since you are not going to add a picture, I guess I will.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Gaddafi?

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

The Ayatollah

[Common Soldier]

The Ayatollah

Correct. Your pick.

[Common Soldier]

Close, bu no. He was correcly identified as the Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in the 1980"s, and made Iran a theocratic Islamic Republic operating under.sharia law.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

[Common Soldier]

Zhou Enlai, Communist Chinese leader?

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

Yeah your turn.

[Common Soldier]

Hint, she's Russian.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Walentina Wladimirowna Tereschkowa?

[Common Soldier]

Walentina Wladimirowna Tereschkowa?

It is spelled differently than I am used to seeing her name, Valentina Tereschkova, but yes, it is the first.woman into space.

Your post

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Thank you.

Its the not anglicized spelling.

[Common Soldier]

Thank you.

Its the not anglicized spelling.

Katherine the Great of Russia.?

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

No, but the right continent.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

The person lived at the time of Napoleon in Central Europe.

[General Brewster]

Eleonore Prochaska.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Right your turn.

Edit:

About Eleonore Prochaska:

Eleonore Prochaska was born on March 11, 1785 in Potsdam. Her father was a sergeant in a Prussian guard battalion. When he had to go to war against France in 1793, his mother was unable to look after the children. Eleonore and her three siblings were sent to the Great Military Orphanage in Potsdam. She stayed there until 1797 and then returned to her father, who had left the service and lived on his pension and music lessons. Around 1808/1809 she was interested in the popular uprisings in Spain and Tyrol against Napoleon. [1] Around this time she left her father's household and around 1810 she served as a cook in a Potsdam town house.

At the end of June 1813, she entered the regular role of the Jäger Detachement of the 1st Battalion of the Lützow Freikorps under the name August Renz. [2] Lieutenant Otto Preuße wrote:

“We were in Sandau on the Elbe. Here a hunter Renz came to the company - as it turned out later, a girl named Prochaska. He became a wingman, 5 feet, 8 inches, 3 lines high - English shoes were delivered to us, all of them significantly too big, but too small for Renz and I had to work a pair especially for him. His language was not particularly fine, so that no one could suspect a girl in him. Incidentally, he cooked splendidly in the bivouacs. "[3]

In July 1813, the Lützow Freikorps reinforced General Wallmoden's army corps, which was positioned on the Lower Elbe. When the war broke out again in mid-August, Prochaska's unit was in Büchen. Her department went along with the whole campaign, but was not used in the many skirmishes against the army of Davout (Lauenburg, Vellahn, Gadebusch, Mölln, etc.). The battle of the Göhrde on September 16, 1813 was the first serious combat test for the company and for Prochaska. [4]

In the Battle of the Göhrde, she was badly wounded by a grapeshot when she tried to carry an injured comrade out of the battle line. A superior rushed to take care of her wounds, discovered her true gender and had her taken to a community center in Dannenberg, where she succumbed to her injuries three weeks later.

A newspaper report dated October 7, 1813 reported:

“This morning at 9 o'clock the corpse of Eleonore Prochaska, who was wounded in the battle of Göhrde and who, as a hunter in the Lützow Corps, had consecrated her arm unrecognized to the holy cause of the fatherland out of pure patriotism, was buried on earth. Like Jeanne d’Arc, she had bravely fought the fight for king and fatherland […] The Hanoverian and Russian-German hunter corps, Se. Your Excellency the Minister and Grandmaitre de la Garderobe, Extraordinary Envoy Count von Grote, her Commander and Colonel Herr Graf von Kielmannsegg, with all officers at the head, and gave her courage the final proof of public appreciation of excellent valor and female heroism. "[6]

In the following years she was idealized as a virgin heroine and revered as the "Potsdam Jeanne d’Arc". Various dramas and poems have been written about her, including Auf das Mädchen from Potsdam, Prochaska by Friedrich Rückert. She is the protagonist in Birgid Hanke's historical novel Flamme der Freiheit (2013).

In 1865 a memorial was erected on her grave in the St. Anne's Cemetery in Dannenberg, and in 1889 her hometown Potsdam received a memorial in her honor ("The Hero Virgin in Memory"), which has been preserved in the almost completely cleared Old Cemetery Has.

A remarkable monument was also placed on her musically: Ludwig van Beethoven composed, in memory of the heroine, a romance piece for the (lost) play Leonore Prohaska, written by the Royal Prussian secretary Friedrich Duncker (1815), consisting of a warrior choir , a melodrama and a funeral march (work without Opus 96).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleonore_Prochaska

[General Brewster]