generals and kings who died in action?

Leonidas?

King Cyrus the Great of Persians who was killed by Massagetae tribes.

yeah and it's called Lützen not Luzon which is a Philippine island...

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.   We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lanthorn dimly burning.

Sir John Moore at Corunna.

 

Roving tho' his death fell, he went with heart at ease, And dreaming all the time of Plymouth Hoe. "Take my drum to England, hang it by the shore, Strike it when your powder's running low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven, And drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago."

Sir Francis Drake, Nombre Dios Bay.

Originally posted by Styrbiorn Originally posted by Majkes Originally posted by Penelope King Gustavus The Great of Sweden. A true "warrior king", whom after creating the Swedish Empire, fell in battle at Luzon in 1632. At his death, Sweden was the third largest nation in europe, after Russia and Spain.   I doubt that Sweden was larger than Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1634 PLC had about 1 mio square km - therefore more than Russia. In 1632 it was a little bit less, still I think more than Sweden. At its height Sweden covered some 1 mn square km as well, although since most of it was forest it doesn't really matter.

Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general, killed at Wagram in 1809

Jean Victor Marie Moreau, one-time French general who defected to the Russians, killed at Dresden in 1813

Patrick Cleburne, Confederate general, killed at Franklin in 1864

Elon Farnsworth, Union cavalry general, killed at Gettysburg in 1863

--A few ancient commanders killed in action:
1. King Pyrrhus of Epirus--the origin of the term "Pyrrhic victory"--was killed by a roofing tile while capturing the city of Argos in a night attack in 272BC.
2. King Antigonus I Monophthalmus, one of the Successors of Alexander the Great, at the Battle of Ipsus in 301BC, the only battle he ever lost.
3. Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, surviving Roman Consul of 217BC, while commanding the Roman center at the Battle of Cannae in 216BC.
4. Caesar Flavius Claudius Julianus, better known as Julian the Apostate, died of wounds received while fighting off a raid on his troops retreating from Ctesiphon in June 363AD.
5. Caesar Constantine II, killed fighting against his brother Constans at the Battle of Aquileia in 340AD.
6. Basilius Nikephoros I of the Later Roman Empire, killed in 811AD at the Battle of Pliska.
7. Consul Gaius Atilius Regulus, killed at the Battle of Telemon in 225BC.


Edited by Galahadlrrp - 13-Apr-2009 at 15:59

Cyrus the Great. King of Kings, Achaemenid.

Originally posted by Klaus Fleming James II of Scotland was killed at the siege of Roxburgh Castle when one of his own cannons suddenly exploded (which was a far more glorious death than the one meted out to his predecessor James I, who was assassinated in a sewer). James III was killed at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488 by his own rebellious nobility. James IV was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 by the English.