Fascinating Historical Figures That We’re Lucky To Have Photos Of

In 1861, US Army commander George Armstrong Custer graduated from West Point at the bottom of his class. At the young age of 23, he was elevated to brigadier general of volunteers after demonstrating his leadership abilities during the American Civil War. He fought in the American Indian Wars after proving his bravery in the Civil War. He and five companies were murdered by an Indian alliance at Little Bighorn, now known as “Custer’s Last Stand,” on June 25, 1876, while he was in command of the 7th Cavalry Regiment.

In a modest Italian village, Benito Mussolini was born to a mother who taught school and a father who worked as a blacksmith. From the 1920s to the beginning of the 1940s, he served as Italy’s prime minister. It might surprise some to learn that Mussolini was multilingual in German, French, English, and Italian. Because of his prior incarceration, he gradually developed a severe case of claustrophobia.