Fairfax, Thomas. 1612-71. English Parliamentarian Civil War general. Commander-in-Chief of New Model Army. Victor at Marston Moor.

Farmers-General. 17C French financiers who bought right to collect taxes for a fixed fee.

Fifth Column. 1936. Fascists within besieged Madrid who assisted Franco’s attackers. Term generally applied to subversives since.

Flamininus, Quinctus. c227-174BC. Roman General who def Philip V of Macedonia 197BC.

Franco, Francisco. 1892-1975. Spanish general and ruthless Fascist dictator, 1939-. Spanish Civil War.

Gage, Thomas. 1721-87. English general, Governor of Massachussets. 1774-5. Siezed munitions at Concord, American Revolution.

Gallas, Matthias. 1584-1647. General for Holy Roman Empire during Thirty Years War. Troops annihilated.

Garfield, James. 1831-81. American Civil War general, US President 1881. Assassinated.

Gates, Horatio. c1728-1806. American Revolution general at Saratoga. Conway Cabal.

GATT. General Agreement on Trade and Tarrifs. 1948-95. Regulates trade tarrifs under UN. WTO.

Gideon. Biblical Israeli general vs Midianites.

Gneisenau, August. 1760-1831. Prussian general vs Napoleon.

Guederian, Heinz. 1888-1954. German general. Invented blitzkrieg 1940.

Hammarskjold, Dag. 1905-61. Swedish UN Secretary General 1953-.

Hampton, Wade. 1818-1902. Confederate general. Raised Hampton’s Legion. Governor of SC 1876-8.

Inflation. General rise of prices of goods and services.

Jackson, Andrew. 1767-1845. US President 1829-37. General 1812-18. Opposed tarrifs. Retired public debt 1835. Spoils system. Universal white male suffrage. Kitchen Cabinet. New Orleans.

Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall”. 1824-63. Mexican War and Confederacy general. Bull Run, Shenandoah, Antietam.

Jodl, Alfred. 1890-1946. German general. Signed capitulation at Reims. Condemned at Nuremberg.

Joséphine, Empress. 1763-1814. Widow of beheaded General de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon 1796-1809; divorced.

Judith. Jewish heroine. Killed Holofernes, Nebuchadnezzar’s general.

Kearny, Stephen. 1794-1848. US general. Captured NM in Mexican War.

Kellerman, François. 1735-1820. French general. Defeated Prussia at Valmy, 1792, saving Revolutionary France.

Kennedy, Robert. 1925-68. US attorney-general 1961-4. Assassinated while running for presidential nomination.

Keynes, John Maynard. 1883-1946. British economist. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 1935. Demand is more a function of interest rates than of money supply. Bretton Woods.

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