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John Jay
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Founding Father,president of the Continental Congress, first chief justice of the US Supreme Court, negotitated several important treaties on behalf of the US and authored several of the Federalist Papers
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Louis XVI
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French king's support for the American Revolution was crucial to the colonists' victory but unleashed conditions. contrubuted to his overthrow and execution at the guillotine in 1793
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Anthony Wayne
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Fiery general, crushed Indian resistance in the Northwest Territory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, opening area north of the Ohio River to settlement
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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French military leader rose to power by staging a coup in 1799 and was subsequently named emperor of France. military campiagns shaped European politics in the early 18th century, and prompted his sale of the Louisiana Territory to the US
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