The 15 Best Military Commanders In Human History, Ranked
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- Of all of history's great military commanders, who was number one? We did a deep dive into the achievements of generals from antiquity through the 20th century, and found these to be the 15 best of all time.
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15. Simón Bolívar | 0:00
14. King Leonidas of Sparta | 1:15
13: Tamerlane | 2:34
12. Themistocles | 3:42
11. Charlemagne | 4:32
10. Frederick the Great | 5:32
9. Hernán Cortés | 6:34
8. Vo Nguyen Giap | 7:46
7. Saladin | 8:55
6. Hannibal Barca | 10:01
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower | 11:06
4. Napoleon | 12:03
3. Genghis Khan | 13:17
2. Julius Caesar | 14:17
1. Alexander the Great | 15:15
Voiceover by: Tim Bensch
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Who do you think is the G.O.A.T. military commander?
Where's George Patton or Omar Bradley I believe you have too many ancient rulers on this list😮
Can’t believe you got mr Barca at 6 . At least 2. Hannibal could’ve copied Alexander with Alexander’s troops. Not sure if Alexander could’ve wielded hannibals army so well
The GOAT is Alexander the Great. So glad you had him as number one on your list.
@@edljnehan2811 Patton is so overrated
Alexander or Napoleon
Khalid ibn al Waleed is easily a top 5 commander the fact that he isn't even on this list says how much people in the west don't even know who he was. Which is pretty sad.
and Baibars. The Muslims cheered Baibars over Salah ad Din. Salah ad Din lost.
very much true. How come the author ignore Khalid Bin Walid whose successful victories against both Roman and Persian Empires during the peak broke and defeated both empires and created a new one the Caliphate that set into motion the changes which saw Spain and places far as North East as Siberia. He has also been insnstumental in subduing the Arabian peninsula from Oman till Iraq and Syria, Palestine and present day Jordan. He is also said to have defeated the combined forces of the Roman and Perian Empires who after successive defeats joined hands to face the Muslim Armies and were also defeated again. Yet Khalid Bin Walids name is missing from the list which is mind beyond comprehension.
@@iftikharuddin999 The reason why he is left off almost every list is simply they don't know who he is. They just list the same old names who are already well known.
Western bias and hatred for Arab Muslims. That’s the only explanation
@@doylekitchen9795 Yavuz Sultan Selim and Fatih Sultan Mehmet should also be in the list.
Genghis khan's general Subutai should have been added to this list. He never lost a battle with 65 victories. Unprecedented military genius! Hands down!
Subutai and also his colleague Jebe should both be on this list.
Nice addition! I agree!
Also for me he was the greatest, but he was once defeated by the Volga Bulgarians.
@davidk6269 Agreed, thanks for that .👍👍
Attacked Russia IN THE WINTER and won. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Napoleon and Adolf
You missed out Wellington. The General who was never defeated. From India to Portugal, Spain, France and Belgium. He defeated every one of Napolian's generals sent against him and even Napoleon himself at Waterloo.
Eisenhower does NOT belong in this list, as he never commanded troops in battle! He was a great administrator, who knew how to delegate. All the achievements he made were through other peoples efforts, a bit like Edison really. Also, wouldn't a qualifier for this list be that the leader involved, never lost a battle? Like Sir Arthur Wellesley or to create such clever tactics, that your force consistently defeats foes with far greater power, like Thomas Cochrane or Horatio Nelson. I do note a distinct lack of British leaders here! Oh and I forgot. William "Uncle Bill" Slim, who took charge of a defeated army, turned it round and soundly defeated the Japanese on the mainland, it should also be noted, that two divisions of the 14th army were only prevented from destroying the Viet Minh, by the French returning to south east Asia and, basically, telling them that "It's OK, we are back, we can finish the job"! They, of course dithered enough for the Viet Minh to re-arm and re-equip and, eventually, soundly defeat first the French and then the US armies.
Yes the UK got the biggest empire with the smallest army!?!
Leonidas, one of the Great Generals in history? Really?
Exactly. Id say the 1st half of the list is questionable at best.
Eisenhower was a consummate 5-star staff general of generals, but Eisenhower never led troops at a combat level. There was always another general between Eisenhower and the fighting.
If you want an American general the usual top two picks are George Patton and US Grant.
Glad some one said it! He was not so much a military commander, but a bureaucrat.
That is fine, managing something of that scale requires those skills, but not a military commander in the sense people think of.
How about George Washington. He only defeated the greatest military power of the age, Great Britain to win our independence!
You could easily list a group of German generals better than all three of them.
Boys study tactics. Men study logistics.
His skills befit modern, large scale military campaigns. He was in charge of all the allied armies in Europe. Hard to deny his accomplishments
Grigory Zhukov. I'm just saying. The guy did more generaling than anyone else. He put more violence against more violence than anyone else. Not even close.
I prefer Suvorov, Russian general who never lost a battle. I guess not good enough for this Mickey Mouse 'list'.
@@bdleo300 Arguably a good choice. Both of our opinions have merit but, I don't believe you need to win every battle when the odds are actually against you. The only way to win all the battles is to avoid fearsome odds.
High casualties is no way to run an army
@@swhip897 Finishing a war is how you run an army.
Khalid ibn al Waleed?????
Tyvm
Correct...the guy was undefeated in all of his battles..and he doesn't get a spot here?
@@Stefan-ei5wg usually with smaller and inferior forces too, he used new tactics and revolutionary methods but dont expect him to be on a mickey mouse list like this 1 with ppl like cortez on it 🤦🏻
Who tf is that? 😂😂
Tamerlane should be way higher. He didn't have super generals like Genghis Khan to help him. The success of his battles and wars depended on him so much.
Agree. Way too low ranked. Some others don’t even belong on this list.
@@willardsteele4857Like Cortez..
You are right. This list reflects the kind of education he (the host of this video) had and the culture he has.
Leonidas' victory at Thermopylae? Whaaaat?
If that's not a strategic victory!
a popularity commanders instead of the best commanders
John Churchill Duke of Marlborough who won every battle he fought and succeeded in every siege he undertook deserves to be in any top five imho along with General Jackson, Napoleon, Tamarlane and Hannibal.
Uh… Galipoli was a tremendous military blunder!
@@jtpalooki7757 you are aware that the John Churchill Duke of Marlborough was a commander in the 1600s.
@@jonmce1 you got me parter!🤠.. however El Cid, who liberated the Iberian peninsula from seven hundred years of Muslim control also deserves mention!
@@jtpalooki7757 Wrong Churchill...
Eisenhower was an effective administrator but as a Military Commander he should be nowhere near this list. You are missing many great commanders like Subatai, Scipio Africanus and The Duke of Marlborough.
He was a war criminal
Zhukov was the greatest general of WW2. He should be on this list before Eisenhower
Not really, all he did was throw bodies at the enemy
Rather strange ranking...
Napoleon won more battles than Caesar, Hannibal and Alexander the Great combined and most often outnumbered.
drink a beer ...
Alexander died as the master of the known world.
Caesar was assassinated as the master of the Roman Empire.
Napoleon as the master of a small island.
@@frankgesuele6298 hahaha bad but funny as well
che dici. cesare ha fatto innumerabili battaglie in decenni di servizio militare e poi da generale, e in campo, in prima linea a volte.
Not more than Julius Caesar and Alexander. Probably more than the overrated Hannibal. Napoleon lost many battles too - Waterloo, Leipzig, and caused huge French army to be destroyed in Russia.
Where's Attila?
Where's naval commander
Yi sunshin ?,who never lost a battle against japanese armada while greatly out numbered.
English Naval commander Nelson against
Spanish armada?
Wheres the desert fox Rommel?
Where's the israelite commander Joshua who went on conquering and conquering while wandering?
Also should Eisenhower be on this list? He had alot of help , no?
Yes. And also Yavuz Sultan Selim and Fatih Sultan Mehmet are missing in the list.
- Yavuz Sultan Selim (Selim the Grim): He increased the size of Ottoman Empire three fold within an incredibly short period of 8 years during the time he was on the throne. He defeated major powers of the day such as Safavid and Mamluks and transferred the Caliphates from Egypt to Istanbul);
- Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Mehmet the Conqueror): He managed lot of victories, among them was the capture of Constantinople. This conquest is considered by some historians to be the event that ended the Middle Ages and started the New Age.
Atilla did lose though.
John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough and Scipio Africanus should be considered.
Scipio 4th place as he defeated Hannibal. Malborough incredible achievements are less lasting than most strategists in the list. Even mostly not his fault, Malplaquet transformed a complete victory in the near parity at Utrecht. If Malborough had had gnostic bosses instead of real illuminists, like the owners of Transukraina for example, he could have accepted every loss and won entirely.
@@psier11 You’ll get no argument from me. I can tell that you know more about this than I do.
Giap lost at Tet and the Easter Offensive. He was right, “you will tire of the fight”
Yeah, the US won nearly every battle in Vietnam. People get this wrong all the time.
The military was not defeated despite the absurd handcuffs put on them. The Vietnamese agreed to the demands of the US.
Only after the bulk of the US military left and was no longer fighting did the South fall.
Still a strategic loss for the nation, but not a military defeat.
No, Giap won with the Tet offensive. It utterly changed American popular view of the war from "winnable" to "let's get out of here"
David vs Goliath 3 times in a row, won the 3 times. Yup, definatly one of the greats.
@@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle ....The primary reason for the Vietnam war was to create a social uprising in America, and it worked just the way they planned it. America had no intentions of winning the war
With all due respect, Mongol generals Subutai Baghatur and Jebe should be included on this list.
Subutai is Turk. He were commander of Mongols but he weren’t Mongol
@@sercanyilmaz4816 I am not sure if that is correct. Everything I have read about him claims that he is Mongol, without any mention of being of Turkish descent.
The real comander is and will always be hanibal barca to me as professional war tactician
I agree totally. Hannibal, with a rag-tag mercenary army, achieved his victories against the foremost army of the era. And not just the well known battles of Trebia and Trasimene and the total annihilation of four consular armies at Cannae, but also Ticinius in 218, Cales, Arminium and Geronium in 217 (before Canae), 1st Tarentum, Silarus and 1st Herdonea in 212, 2nd Herdonea and Numistro in 210, Canusium (Asculum) and Caulonia in 209 and Venusium in 208, and these exclude minor victories and ambushes. Without any help or reinforcements from Carthage, he marched up and down southern Italy, unmolested by Roman armies, (who gave him a wide berth when he approached!) for a total of fifteen years, undefeated, except for a couple of minor setbacks, (his failed relief of Capua against the second Roman siege of 211, springs to mind). Any thing more serious was Livy's biased imagination.
Best general ever,said that for years
Strainge how Western Historiens never mention Karl XII of Sweden 1682 - 1718.
Maybe in top 50.
Shaka Zulu and Marshall Zhukov are missing
Generalship excellence is more than battlefield tactics. There’s intelligence, supply chain management, long term strategic planning, diplomacy, the ability to lead and inspire men. And luck. This mixes things up and doesn’t do precise comparisons.
Eisenhower and Giap don't belong on this list. Tamerlane should be several spots higher and Genghis Khan should be #1. Also, as anyone who has studied history knows, the correct pronunciation is Chinghis Khan with a ch or even a j sound. Even then, as someone has already pointed out, his actual name was Temujin--but these days everyone simply refers to him by his title.
Good comments. Include the "modern big-army" generals US Grant and Patton. At the top, Alexander. Then Caesar and Napoleon both at 2.
Hannibal should be at number one. He was such a superb tactician that his battles were won before the first blow was even struck.
But the author, and ,ignoring Dikesenhower, he is right, chooses strategy over tactics. Patton was a master tactician not probably in the first 15 strategists. Hannibal 6th is correct due to his limits in grand strategy (attacking a superior foe on external lines!).
Hannibal lost too many times - he was stopped Marcellus at Nola three times, pushed back by Claudius Nero, and decisively defeated by Scipio at Zama. And as a naval commander working for the Seleucids, he lost again.
@@Freedom2111 'Hannibal lost too many times' - only if you believe Livy. 'he was stopped Marcellus at Nola three times' - the first battle was a minor victory for the Romans, the other two were stalemates. 'pushed back by Claudius Nero' - again only if you believe Livy, (totally debunked by J.F. Lazenby). 'Zama?' - Where was the battle fought, if it ever took place? Google: The Trouble With Zama: Paradox, Smoke and Mirrors in an Ancient Battlefield.
Dude, Eisenhower over Marshal Georgy Zhukov? Give me a break!
Even against von manstein.
I think Gaius Marius should be on this list. His reforms turned the roman military into a force that lastet for 500 more years.
He's been vilified by revisionist history but U.S. Grant was considered one the greatest battlefield commander alive during his lifetime and immediately after his death. He lectured some of the great military minds and his tactics are still studied.
Naader Shah of Persia (Iran) in 18th Century.
The Islamic commander Khalid bin Al walled was should be in the top 5 sir he never defeated in any battle
EXCELLENT, outstanding, brilliant description of true history of military strategists. Unbiased choice and great content.
When seeing that Leonides is on the list I wonder why Miltiades isn't, commanding the battle of Marathon, the first Cannae-like battle (yeah Hannibal did many more tricks so deserves a good position).
Describes Eisenhower as a "military genius" and makes no mention of Patton. Need I say more?
Subatai should be in the top 5!
No Khalid Ibn Alwaleed ? Al Yarmouk Battle was a masterpiece against Byzantine Empire
or the armenian general very poor at strategic level?
Take a shot every time he says “calvary” instead of cavalry.
I’m having an existential crisis now since you made me realize I have been saying it Calvary for my entire life, knowing full well how to spell it.
He is not the only one seems knowing a lot about war weakens other skills
Khalid ibn al waleed the man who never been defeated destroyed the Roman and Byzantine empire, who outnumbered him by 10x, and was one of the sole reason why Islam’s golden age began? You’re telling me he doesn’t deserve to be on the list? He should be atleast top 5
Toussaint Louverture not top 15 battlefield commander but defeated the 3 most powerful European empires driven to conquer + re-enslave them (roughly 50,000 French (32,000 on Napoleon’s Expedition), 50,000 British and 20,000 Spanish troops over 13 years with # varying depending on who’s counted as troops, when + where in Haitian Revolution (1791-1804): as strategist masterfully combined military, economic, diplomatic, PR, logistics, training, inspiration, government administration, fusion of guerilla tactics and traditional, Machiavellianism and intuition to see how'd they come together while always multiple steps ahead, understanding how dominos would fall while in a Hunger Game scenario on an island with about 20 overlapping factions of empires, regions, classes, ideologues, races, free, slave, maroons, rich whites, poor whites, rich blacks, poor blacks, subjects from different African states all constantly switching sides, aligning, fighting and nobody knew who would come out on top.
Yellow fever's impact vastly overstated with battlefield casualties not out of line with other wars at time, especially in climate, which a study of medical records after battles showed, and Toussaint used disease to trick and corral Europeans into areas where he could take action to cause biggest impact (why didn't enemies see it coming?), which Napoleon actually did see the rope a dope at play in reports right before his army did, which his brother-in-law confirmed with a panicked 180 in month 3 saying if massive reinforcements weren't sent they had no hope, but then key Hattian generals switched sides and extended war.
I mostly credit TL with defeat of French expedition even though he didn't make it to the end since it was his strategy and preparation that was followed to the end, although it wasn't among his top few contingency plans, but it worked.
Disease comparison: US Civil War two-thirds of the approximately 660,000 deaths of soldiers were caused by uncontrolled infectious diseases, and epidemics played a major role in halting several major campaigns. Cuban War of Independence: Spain 9,413 killed in battle 53,313 dead from disease. US Rev Germans mercs 7,774 total dead, 1,800 dead in battle; Loyalists: 7,000 total dead, 1,700 dead in battle.
US Rev 6,800 US Battle Deaths (41,000 troops), GB 8,500 Battle Deaths (48,000 troops)
French Deaths in Battles in just 3 Battles: 1. Most Dead: Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot 2000 (Leclerc tried to hide numbers) 2. First Major Battle: Battle of Ravine 200. 3. Last Major Battle: Battle of Vertières 1200. That's 3,400 in just 3 engagements. (32,000 troops sent).
GB Treasurer estimated empire could take no major military action for 6 years because of how much they invested, so it wasn't like they weren't trying.
Also, Shaka often gets token African mention when it should be Sonni Ali of Songhay whose innovations with river navy + cavalry (armor and horse breeding) revolutionized African warfare while conquering and consolidating more territory than any African before. West African historian Mahmoud al-Kati (1468 - circa 1593) who hated Ali wrote "He was always victorious. No army led by him in person was put to rout. Always conqueror, never conquered, he left no region, town or village … without throwing his cavalry against it, warring against its inhabitants and ravaging them.
Esinhower.really.
He was the best political general.
@@swhip897 Very good mason golfer with an eye for (tranny) WAACs
heard of Suvorov? Zhukov?
I appreciate seeing Nguyen Giap of Vietnam. You failed to mention his victory over the Japanese in 1945, the Cambodians in 1979 and held back the Chinese invasion also in 1979.
Richard I of England (The Lionheart) defeated Saladin! Had him leave the battlefield, destroy Ascalon, and then held up in fear in Jerusalem.
I stopped at Leonidas. Leonidas was sixty, had one usable eye and Thermopylae was the only passage to southern Greece at ancient times
Thanks for pics of Dikesenhower. Female gait and long index confirms she was an ftm
Napoleon at 4 is a crime he's easily the best general ever, I also think a couple could be removed like Leonidas and Cortes to make room for better commanders like Admiral Yi of Korea and Nobunaga Oda or Toyotomi Hideyoshi from fuedal Japan. Probably remove Eisenhower too, no disrespect, but he doesn't strike me as one of the best ever since I think Grant is probably the best American general ever.
I agree! Napoleon should be #1.
There was a list of the most influential people period, and he was second, behind only Jesus.
Right modern warfare is still very heavily influenced by innovations he first introduced. And he died what? 200 years ago, that's insane.@@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle
This entire s---it list is a crime.... of all RUclips ranking lists this one is the worst (and they all are bad).
Well, this is A list. But not A-list.
Dwight Eisenhower should not be in this list. He led by committee and was considered subpar by ally and enemy generals. His one strength was he had fortitude to order Normandy invasion when he did. Grant Sherman Sheridan or Thomas would have been better choice. How did Richard the second. The black prince Baldwin or Sobieski not make this list
Scipio Africanus
Per quasi 1500 anni sicuramente lo è stato,poi Marte si é reincarnato in Subedei.
@@marcobiagioli3905 Grandissimo ma casa ha lascaito dopo? L?impero mongolo è crollato mentre Scipione ha creato, posto le basi per la Roma imperiale. Sapeva far ela guerra ma anche la pace questa è la differenza!
He even defeated Hannibal
@@gabrielmeyer4136He was undefeated in his career
@@marcobiagioli3905Subutai grandissimo ma non ha creato nulla, Scipione ha posto le basi e di fatto creato l'impero romano
Janos Hunyadi protected Europe from Ottaman Empire for decades. He defetead an 80.000 strong turkish army at Siege of Belgrade. (1456) Europe would be muslim without Him.
You forgot Skenderbej
Giap's STRATEGY was to spend as many lives as he had to. He didn't care that he would lose 100,000 dead if it would make the US stop helping the South Vietnamese to defend against his invasion. He won one battle against a totally outnumbered and unsupplied French force and lost every engagement against the US and half of the battles against the ARVNs.
Man, ghengis khan was the king of kings. And this list is incomplete without waleed.
Mehmed the conqoeror, Khalid Ibn Valid, Irwin Rommell, Alaudin Khilji are also included in this list. Some Commanders whom are very inferior also in the list.
I think this list wasn't made by historic. 1) Emir Temur 2) Great Alexander 3) Genghis Khan 4) Khalid ibn Valid 5) Napoleon Bonaparte.
What about Patton and MacArthur
Giáp DID NOT defeat the US Army. Walter Cronkite did. The Tet Offensive was the death knell for the NVA until, as if divinely resurrected Walter Cronkite snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
I vote for Chinese acient generals , Alexander the great did conquered the most land by himself ,but he is no match against Chinese army at the time
15. Bolivar - from what you mention he does seem to be a great commander, who achived so much, but it is not clear how exactly he did this. What really makes him that good. He may fit in the top 15, but i am just left to doubt that.
14. Leonidas - this guy has no place in this list. Sure he was brave, but bravery does not make you a great commander. Only a dumb person would fight the persians in an open field. This is strategy for beginners. Also which scolars say that the persians fielded 300 000 men? That is just not feasible.
13. Timur - turkish-mongol tribe? The modern nation of Turkey was founded after World War I. Turco-Mongol tribe!
Timur should be higher on the list considering he did not lose any battles and he fought a lot of them and he also started as a small tribal leader to the master of Asia.
10. Fredeick the Great - "He was willing to fight, when other would have fled", this is not entirelly true as there were many times, when he had no other option, but to fight, even though the odds were stacked against him. It was either vitory or the end of his reign and empire. Still he was brave and fought battles, which other would not have even considered winnable.
6. Hannibal - he invented double envolopment? I seriously doubt this is true. With so many errors i am not even going to look it up, it is likely not true.
3. Genghis Khan - "Khan started to build his reputation", WTF. Khan is not a name! Jesus, simply Jesus. Are you guys so incompetent? The British Empire was the largest in human history, not the Mongol Empire.
2. Julius Caesar - "his empire"? Its not like he conquered all these lands for the romans. Yes, the empire was his, but the way you say it sounds like he conquered all that land. "He held territories stretching from the Caspian Sea"? When did Rome hold any Territories bordering the Caspian Sea exactly?
1. Alaexander the Great - conquering Egypt and Persia and uniting them? How is Egypt a separate entity? It was part of Persia, dahhh.
This video is just bad. You guys dont know anything about history.
Please dont release videos about things you know nothing about.
Eisenhower was a politican not a general, ridiculous to put him on this list. Replace him with the Duke of Marlborough.
Eisenhower was a war criminal.
If any U.S. General should be listed it should be Washington (for the same reasons as Giáp) or U.S. Grant for being the first modern General and the mammoth territory he conquered during the American Civil War.
US Grant and Patton
Agreed!
At best Washington was a mediocre general.
@@jpx1508 Paton did not compare with Guderian, Rommel, or evn Von Rundstedt and was no where near as good as Slim.
General Zachary Taylor and General Wilfred Scott conquered what is now Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and California.
Zhu Huang Di united all of the warring states of China into one empire. That was pretty impressive.
Von Moltke the elder took France in six months in 1870-71.
You left Khalid Ibn Al-waleed out. He's the most successful general
What about Atilla the Hun?
What's about the general that defeated the Ottoman empire in the battle of Diu?
The greatest leader was Hannibal. Take a look at what he achieved against the Romans with that paltry little army.
You need to look at one of the most unknown military leaders Admiral Yi Sun-shin
It's a travesty that I've never seen him on a list like this. He could be the most talented Admiral ever, right there with Horatio Nelson.
Comparison between Nelson and Yi need to be qualified: Nelson had a larger and fully equipped fleet with full support of the Crown, whereas Yi was practically abandoned and turned against him by the royal court, so he had to build his own ships. Nelson had some defeats, but Yi was undefeated in all of his 23 battles with a much smaller fleet of battleships than the Japanese.
In one particular battle, Yi only had 13 dilapidated ships against more than 330 Japanese ships. Yi initially sank 30 Japanese ships, but as the battle progressed, he destroyed an additional 300 or so ships without incurring one single loss.
Japan is an island country and thus a seafaring country. Their naval force was nothing to sneer at. Unless one was a brilliant commander and strategist, only a miracle would pull off a victory with 13 ships against a formidable force of 330 ships. Yi was such a great commander and a brilliant strategist who read the ever-changing sea current and utilized to his advantage while battling.
Nader Shah of Persia, Hannibal of Carthage, Attila the Hun
Atilla is missing sorely! To me probably first place. Tough battle with Alexander.
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. Won every battle, mostly as attacker. Mostly had less forces. He and Ushakov were horror story in Ottoman Empire
Bro put Alexander at first position but he only fought against mainly one empire
Yet he put Napoleon fourth when he fought an internal war against counterrevolutionaries while at the same time fighting against whole Europe
Bro put Ghenghis khan when he only attacked tribes
Julius Caesar is justified
Napoleon should be #1
what about Oda Nobunaga?
Scipio Africanus at 4th place before Hannibal.
Eisenhower at 4! Hahahahahahahaha. Good one
Khalid bin Walid is the father of all these generals
Outstanding list!! Thank you!
Utterly ridiculous s--it list.
Themistocles was also the brain behind the battle of Thermoplaye. Leonides gets all the glory because of the land battle. The sea phase is often forgotten, atleast to the folks i chat with.
I knew Toussaint L'Ouverture nor Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the guys who led the slave revolt in Haiti weren’t going to be included for obvious reasons 😂😂
Should be 16.
Missing Han Xin.
Shivaji Maharaj.
Prudhvirsj Chauhan.
Maha Rana Pratap .
And other great Indian warriors are missing
Cyrus needs to be on this list over Leonidas and Themistocles
Downvote for DIkesenhower presence that ruins a good video
Samudragupt was perhaps the best general of all time . He was a genius and a great strategist who never lost a war . He ruled for a very long time and was greatly loved by his people .
not sure Alexander fits to be on #1, his army were on the verge of mutiny toward the end. Top 5 for sure though.
From Greece to modern day Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, back to Mesopotamia-Iraq, down along the Persian gulf and the Zagros mountain range of south Iran, to Caspian seashores of north Iran, to Afghanistan, Tajikistan and all the way south, along the Pakistani-Indian border. Fighting, walking their arse off for 12 years and finally getting fed up. How dare they, right? Make that top 10, for good measure.
General, Douglas, MacArthur, most highly decorated soldier in American history. Influenced three world conflict, nominated for the medal of honor in an action against Pancho Villa before World War I. Commander of the rainbow division, in World War I, the most effective division in America. 11 to one kill ratio in World War II. He completely changed the culture of Japan as its dictator for five years. He then saved the Korean Peninsula with the landing At Incheon. On his deathbed, he told Johnson to either win the war in Vietnam, or get his troops out, or American. Young men would be no longer willing to risk your life for the country. He was right again. 0:06 When World War II broke out, he was a four-star general,Ike Was 0:06 a major, serving as a file clerk under MacArthur
He also let the American AF get destroyed on the ground when Japan invaded Luzon, failed to withdraw supply caches to Bataan, was surprised by the Korean invasion that began that war, and he unnecessarily cost the lives of thousands of Americans through his hubristic drive to the Yalu river, the beginning of the largest, longest retreat in US history
The greatest military commander of all time is undoubtedly Admiral Yi Sun Shin. Others I think should be listed are Horatio Nelson, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester Nimitz, Georgy Zhukov, Peng Dehuai, and Cyrus the Great. I think that Leonidas or Themistocles shouldn't be on the list-choosing to defend at a choke point is a wise move, but I'm not sure it's genius.
Khalid Bin Waleed is easily the greatest military commander who fought and defeated the two superpowers of his time simultaneously, the Romans and the Persians!
LOL! Joke of a list. Ike was an administrator. Where is Scipio Africanus? Hannibal and Caesar should rank higher. Subutai was the Mongol mastermind. Themistocles was the genius of the war against Persia. Napoleon should probably be first, but I agree with Alexander. I could go on, but I’ll just laugh, LOL!
Ο σπουδαίος Γάλλος συγγραφεύς Βίκτωρ Ουγκώ έγραψε, ότι οι σπουδαιότεροι στρατιωτικοί ηγέτες - ήρωες τού 19ου αιώνος υπήρξαν: 1. George Washington (USA), 2. Simon Bolivar (S.Amerika), 3. Marco Botsaris (Greece) and 4. Thaddeus Kosciuszko (Polska).
Where is Khalid ibn al Walid? He destroyed Persian empire and Byzantine empire, never lost a battle and died in his bed.
Russian general Suvorov never lost a battle and deserved mention here
Top 5 is Vo Nguyen Giap, defeated the pre-eminant superpower of the time, the US Military machine.
no Khalid Bin Walid - or have you not heard of him
Cyrus The Great, Nader Sha (The last quanquerer of East, Surena (who defeated Crassus), Shahpoor (Who destroyed the Roman Arme and took Valerian empror as captive). It is better if you do a bit research before posting such a video.
yes you should ,if you had you would know that it was not the Roman army but the Byzantine empire
Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese viceroy of Portuguese India. Conquered Goa, Malacca, Ormuz, established Portuguese control of the Indian Ocean paving the way for a later European dominance of the East against Muslim powers. Perhaps the most influential man when it comes to the beginnngs of the world’s globalisation.
This is a typical western stereotyped presentation which depicts generals who affected the course of European history in Europe. This is not an impartial
Military assessment of general ship.
This presentation is superfluous & ignorant & should be ignored.
Fun fact: Sir Christopher Lee is a direct descendant of Charlemagne the Great.
Fun fact: Charlemagne is a Frankish translation of the Latin nickname “Carolus Magnus” and “Magnus” means the “Great”…
Fun fact, so am I and any other German and French. This has been shown mathematically.
First Emperor of China, Korea's famous admiral, My list would be First Emperor of China first, Ghenghis Khan second, and Alexander third.
Cortes is on this list? Really?
Erwin Rommel
Robert E. Lee?
Xωρίς να διαφωνώ με τίς επιλογές σας, θεωρώ ότι μπορούν να προστεθούν (8) ακόμη σπουδαίοι πολέμαρχοι: 1. Αχιλλεύς, 2. Επαμεινώνδας, 3. Πύρρος, 4. Ιουλιανός, 5. Βελισσάριος, 6. Βασίλειος Β' Boυλγαροκτόνος, 7. Γεώργιος Καστριώτης - Σκεντέρμπεης, 8. Μάρκο Μπότσαρης.
Ωστόσο, η ελληνική ιστορία διαθέτει πλειάδα ακόμη σπουδαίων στρατηγικών ηγετών - εγκεφάλων, υπερέχοντας οποιουδήποτε άλλου έθνους και σε αυτόν τόν τομέα, όπως άλλωστε και σε όλους, όπως στούς σοφούς, στούς επιστήμονες, στούς καλλιτέχνες, στούς ποιητές, στούς αρχιτέκτονες, στούς ιατρούς, στούς αθλητές, διαθέτοντας τούς κορυφαίους διαχρονικά.