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Tadeusz Ko§ciuszko, a hero of the American War of Independence, led a military insurrection in 1794, defeating the Russians with a mostly peasant army.
Henríques consolidated his position by defeating the Moors at the Battle of Ourique in 1139, and celebrated by naming himself the first king of Portugal.
Take the now-retired Paul Simon of Illinois, who took a courageous position in support of the balanced-budget amendment and held to it consistently--even in 1995, when the Democrats were one vote short, and wouldn't have succeeded in defeating the amendment without the help of Republican Mark Hatfield.
In between defeating the Austrians in Italy and a less successful campaign against the British in Egypt, in 1795 Bonaparte returned to Paris to crush the royalists, and four years later he staged a coup against the Directoire.
"He bulldoggedly opposed the women's rights movement, other civil-rights crusades and decolonization," objects Time . Roosevelt has better crossover appeal, since, in addition to defeating Hitler, he expanded economic opportunity through the New Deal (and gets credit for his wife's contributions to "feminism and social justice").