Who is that tyrant? Mystery Cache

The cache is hidden in the Yuba City Parkway at the NE edge of town...which is open during daylight hours only. Park at the north yellow gate, and hike about six tenths north on sandy trails. Some of the trails can be muddy during wet weather. To ascertain the actual coordinates, you must solve the puzzle below.

1. vertical: blue, yellow, red; impaler (post-name numeral)
2. equal-armed cross with each arm continued at a right angle;
   National Socialist Party
3. vertical: black, yellow, red; "builder king," exploiter of Africa (2nd letter)
4. blue corner (with white star), white, red; hyper-arid country (first name)
5. red, white (with takbir), black; hanged in 2006 (second letter)
6. red (with central gold star); he fought the French and the U.S. (middle name)
7. black, and red (with cannons and a palm tree in middle); his son succeeded
   him (first name)
8. light blue, white (with a central sun), light blue; theft of babies (1st name, 4th letter)
9. red (with five gold stars); cultural revolution (1st name, last letter)
10. blue, narrow white, red (with star), narrow white, blue; Juche (1st name, -6)
11. vertical: green, white, red; Gran Sasso raid (1st name, +1)
12. red (with hammer and sickle); man of steel (5th letter)
13. blue, red (with bldg), blue; Khmer Rouge (2nd or 5th letter)
14. black, yellow, red [repeated, with a crane in middle]; Field Marshall (1st name)

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.