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  • Philippovich von Philippsberg, Josef Freiherr (1818–1889), kk Feldzeugmeister, 1878 Commander in Chief of the troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Phillip, Arthur (1738-1814) British naval officer and explorer, admiral
  • Phillipps, Sir Tom KCB (1888-1941), British Admiral; Commander of the East India Fleet; fallen aboard the Prince of Wales
  • Phillips, William (1731–1781), British artillery officer; Major General in the American Revolutionary War
  • Philopoimen (253–183 BC), the last great general and statesman of the Hellenes
  • Phipps, Henry , 1st Earl of Mulgrave (1755–1831), British officer and statesman
  • Phokion (to 402-318 v. Chr.), Athenian commander

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  • Planitz, Paul Edler von der (1837–1902), General, since 1881 Saxon Minister of War
  • Platow, Matwei Ivanovich (1753-1818), Cossack Hetman
  • Plautius, Aulus († after 57), Roman senator and general, first governor of the province of Britain from 43 to 47
  • Plumer, Herbert , 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE (1857-1932), British field marshal and colonial administrator; Commander of the 2nd Army on the Western Front during the First World War

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  • Pocock, Sir George (1706–1792), British admiral in the Seven Years War.
  • Podbielski, Eugen Anton Theophil von (1814–1879), Prussian general of the cavalry and inspector general of the artillery.
  • Podbielski, Victor von (1844–1916), Lieutenant General.
  • Pohl, Hugo von (1855–1916), German admiral; Chief of the Admiralty's Staff.
  • Poix-Créquy, Charles de , prince de Poix, duc de Créquy, (1623–1687), French general and diplomat.
  • Pokryschkin, Alexander Ivanovich (1913–1985), Soviet pilot; Air Force General.
  • Polk, Leonidas L. (1806–1864), Confederate general in the American Civil War.
  • Pollock, George (1786–1872), British field marshal, fought in the First Anglo-Afghan War
  • Pomeroy, Seth (1706–1777), British and American armourer and general in the French and Indian Wars and in the American War of Independence.
  • Pompei, Vincenz von (1763–1849), royal Bavarian major general and chamberlain.
  • Poniatowski, Józef Antoni (1763–1813), Polish general; Marshal of France; drowned.
  • Ponsonby, Sir Frederick Cavendish (1783–1837), British general in the war on the Peninsula; Governor of Malta.
  • Ponsonby, Sir Henry PC (1825-1895), British general; Private Secretary to Queen Victoria.
  • Ponsonby, Sir John (1866–1952), British general; Division commander in the First World War.
  • Ponsonby, Sir William , KCB, (1772-1815), British general; fallen at Waterloo.
  • Poor, Enoch (1736-1780), shipbuilder and trader from Exeter, New Hampshire; Brigadier General in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
  • Poor, Salem (1758–1802), African-American soldier in the American War of Independence; excellent at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
  • Porbeck, Heinrich von (1771–1809), German officer, military reformer and writer; Baden General; liked by Talavera.
  • Portal, Charles , 1st Viscount (1893–1971), British Marshal of the Royal Air Force , Commander in Chief of the British Air Forces in World War II
  • Porter, David (1780-1843), American naval officer; Commodore; Captain of the USS Essex .
  • Porter, David Dixon (1813-1891), American admiral in the Civil War; Son of the previous one.
  • Porter, William David (1809–1864), naval officer in the American Civil War; Commodore; Brother of the previous one.
  • Postel, Georg-Wilhelm (1896–1953), General in the German Wehrmacht.
  • Potiorek, Oskar (1853–1933), Austrian general; Army inspector and country chief in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina); Commander-in-Chief of the Balkan Forces in World War I.
  • Potjomkin, Grigori Alexandrovich (1739–1791), Russian field marshal; Favorite of Catherine the Great.
  • Pottinger, Eldred CB (1811–1843), officer in the artillery of the British East India Company, diplomat and adventurer; became known as the "Defender of Herat".
  • Pottinger, Sir Henry Bt. PC GCB (1789–1856), British officer and colonial administrator; first governor of Hong Kong; 1851 Lieutenant General.
  • Pownall, Sir Henry KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1887–1961), British Lieutenant General; Adviser to Winston Churchill; 1941 British "High Commanding Far East" in Singapore; 1942 Chief of Staff of ABDACOM.

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  • Pyrrhus (* around 319/18 BC to 272 BC), hegemon of the covenant of Epirus and king of the Molossians; Greek general; known for the "Pyrrhic Victory"