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18 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Seems some non-Americans on here - Ingrid Bergman was Swedish & Hannah Arendt was German iirc
Junipero Serra was a Spaniard
Somehow Tecumseh made it on the list despite being one of our enemies.
the Marquis de Lafayette was French
Bernardo de Galvez was another Spaniard

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