While besieging Rhodes with a Macedonian army (305 – 304 B.C.), Demetrius employed the helepolis, a virtually impregnable, 130-foot-high siege tower covered with sheet iron on three sides. The Rhodians used this to defeated it.

General Philip Sheridan renamed his horse "Winchester" after it carried him from Winchester, Virginia, to Cedar Creek in time to turn the tide of battle after his army was surprised by a Confederate force. This was the horse’s original name.

The existence of vitamins and their link to good health was first suggested by this man in 1906.

An offensive in Vietnam’s A Shau Valley in the spring of 1969, which resulted in the bloody assaults on Ap Bia Mountain – "Hamburger Hill" – was given this code name.