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    Posted: 14-Nov-2008 at 00:57
--Here be a few generals who died in action:
--Major General John Sedgwick, CG VI Corps, US Army of the Potomac, at the Battle of Spotsylvania, right after telling his men to stand firm because "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance".
--Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III, US Army Air Force, when his bomber was shot down leading a raid on the submarine yards at Kiel in 1943.
--General Albert Sidney Johnston, CG Confederate Army of Mississippi, at the Battle of Shiloh.
--Major General James McPherson, CG US Army of Tennessee, at the Battle of Atlanta in 1864.
--Marshal of France Turenne, at the Battle of Sassbach in 1675.
--Marshal of the Empire Jean Lannes, at the Battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809.
--Marshal of the Empire Josef Poniatowski, at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813.
--And lastly, though he wasn't much of a general, Publius Quintilius Varus, Governor of Roman Germania, at the Battle of the Teutoburger Wald in 9 AD.
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so Count Dracula wasnt immortal then :)
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Also, Vlad Tepes "the Impaler" died in a fierce battle against the ottoman turks in 1477.
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"many ottoman sultans died in battle.and most in war"

this is not true.only I. Murat was killed in battle.
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Many Ottoman Sultans have died in battle. And most in war.
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Boleslaw Zajaczkowski, Battle of Zadworze (Polish Thermopylae)
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Richard III of England

 
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ohh, i forgot a most famous death in our Poish history... Pan Wolodyjowski! defending the eagles nest of kamieniec podolski
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General Craterus died fighting when he attempted to invade the realm of Perdiccas, who was at that time regent for the mentally ill King Philip Arridaeus. Craterus was actually the most experianced of all Macedonian generals still alive after Alexander's death, yet he was defeated by Eumenes who had absolutly no experiance as a military commander.
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In the Peloponnesian War Hippocrates, the Athenian commander was killed at Delium.  Brasidas the Spartan commander and Cleon the Athenian were killed at Amphipolis.  Both the Athenian commanders (Demosthenes and Nikias) were killed after the debacle at Syracuse.
 
Cyrus the Younger was killed at Cunaxa in 401 BC.
 
Jan Zizka, the famous Hussite commander, died of the plague while directing a siege.
 
CSA General Armistead was killed in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg and General Albert Sydney Johnston, an Army commander, was killed at Shiloh.  Oh, and JEB Stuart at Yellow Tavern. 
 
Buckner was the highest ranking American killed in the Pacific.  The highest ranking American killed in WWII was LTG McNair, killed by "friendly fire" (Allied bombers) in France.
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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz simply died at a defence against the Turks, the other generals tried to keep this a secret an dnot let any of the soldiers know the Hetman had died, worrying about the moral of the army. However they managed still to successfully defend against the turkish siege.
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Good subject Batu. Generals/monarchs killed in action correct, not ones dying relatively soon after receiving a serious wound?

Sticking to the great Second Punic War, the Scipio brothers fell before a preponderance of enemy forces in Spain in 211 B.C. (their allies were bought off by Hasdrubal Barca). Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was betrayed and ambushed in 212 B.C. in Lucania. Marcus Marcellus and his reconnoitring party fell to Hannibal's Numidians in 208 B.C.

It has never been confirmed whether or not Spartacus was killed near the Silarus River in 71 B.C., where his slave-army was finally destroyed; his body was never identified.

Marcus Licinius Crassus 'Dives' was killed fighting the Parthians at the battle of Carrhae (modern Harran, Turkey) in 53 B.C.

Publius Quinctilius Varus was betrayed and killed at the Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald (near modern Osnabruck, Germany) in A.D. 9.

Harold Godwinson (Harold II of England) was killed on Senlac Hill amid the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Yi Sun-sin, the famous Korean admiral, was killed by a bullet in 1598, while winning a great victory over the Japanese navy.

The great Polish hetman Jan Chodciewicz was killed (or simply died?) upon the conclusion of the great defense against the Ottomons in the fortress of khotyn (Chocim) in 1621.

The great Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter was killed fighting the French off Sicily in 1676.

James Wolfe was killed at Quebec in 1757.

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Edited by Spartan - 26-Nov-2006 at 20:23
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Sahin Beg of Anteppe was killed in action by French soldiers.
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defender of Szigetvar castle was slain in battle
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Cyrus the great in a battle againest eastern rebels in Bactria and Mago Barca by Roman troops outside of Milan.
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The other four generals who died at Antietam were:

CSA: Anderson and Starke

USA: Richardson and Branch

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Also, at the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War 1862, 6 Brigadier and Major generals were killed, another six were wounded. 

Among the dead were Brig General Isaac Rodman and Major General Joseph Mansfield, i can't remember the other four off the top of my head right now though. 
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American Civil War.

At the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864, General Hood's Confederates lost over 6,000 of 21,000 effectives, most of them in about two hours. Six Confederate generals died in that battle.

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Nelson! (gotcha!) Actually a great deal of admiral died in action.

and the only French king I know who died 'in action' was Louis XII (1515) who got exhausted by his new young wife... Some nations are made for war other not.
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Cyrus II the Great
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