Lord Kitchener, the British commander, systematically burned Boer farms, criss-crossed the country with barbed wire, and forced Boer women and children into concentration camps.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

In 1943, Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed World War II Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia.

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Others named in the New Year Honours list include Nottinghamshire's Lord Lieutenant Sir Andrew Buchanan, who was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).

BBC: Honour for founder of Child Migrants Trust

Three years later he embarked his army in ships assembled by Lord Cochrane, a brilliant, if self-serving, British naval commander operating as a privateer, and landed in Peru.

ECONOMIST: Jos�� de San Mart��n

In the operation, they arrested Brazil's top drug lord, Luis da Costa, who was working with a FARC front commander, Tomas Molina Caracas, better known by his alias "El Negro Acacio".

BBC: Venezuela