Well, we all know that Leonardo Di Vinci was an AMAZING artist during the Renaissance, he painted the Mona Lisa, The Last Meal, and many many more, he was also an inventor, he even tried creating his own child... out of wood...
As of Donte, do you mean Donte pettis?
George Washington's early military career (1754-1758)—during the Seven Years' War—was not uniformly successful. In his first battle, he and his men were ambushed and forced to surrender Fort Necessity on the Pennsylvania frontier. ... Washington led the surviving British and Colonial soldiers on a successful retreat.
Answer: from Egypt to South Africa
Explanation: the British managed to link Mediterranean with Indian Ocean and South Atlantic in the end of 19th century. Like that they controlled strategic points in terms of geopolitics. But in fact decline of British Empire started already before 1850s.
What they have in common is the fact that they played important roles in gaining their countries independence from Spain. Marti was instrumental in Cuba's independence and Aguinado in the Philippines
Francisco I. Madero, as President of Mexico. Madero and northern revolutionary Pascual Orozco, who rebelled against him in 1912.