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[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not a list of mine, but two that came to mind for anyone interested in reading about great men of action

Bronze Age Mindset has a great number of historical figures, lot of conquistadores and mercenaries:

Brasidas

Lysander

Hanno the Navigator

Lourenço de Almeida

Commodore Perry

Hernán Cortés

Pizarro

Afonso de Albuquerque

Pedro de Alvarado

Bob Denard

Colonel "Mad Mike" Hoare

Capaneus

Neall Ellis

Sforzas

Lope de Aguirre

Gracchi

This site, Badass of the Week, has a large list of notable historical figures

https://www.badassoftheweek.com/archive

This guy is completely fucking wild, known as the Last Khan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg

often referred to as Baron Ungern, was an anticommunist general in the Russian Civil War and then an independent warlord who intervened in Mongolia against China. A part of the Russian Empire's Baltic German minority, Ungern was an ultraconservative monarchist who aspired to restore the Russian monarchy after the 1917 Russian Revolutions and to revive the Mongol Empire under the rule of the Bogd Khan.

Peter Kemp

Sir William Stephenson, really crazy what he dabbled in, strange life.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lot of conquistadores

Based!