Michael Christidis yeah fair enough plus some statistics are very wrong. Subutai should be much higher he really shouldn’t be outside anyone’s top five. this video has some big flaws. Some questionable statistics and ranking on just win counts, not more needed context.
fangeltim ,he found wrong data, for example: Suvorov participated in more than 60 battles and did not lose once. I think that the author also missed many others good commanders.
Yes this video is stupid. Hum about the General Nguyen giap, I don't know for the Americans but didn't the French won the very most of the battles and accept Indochina independence because of the French people opinion and the international pressure ?
Because of the revolution France has the most skilled of its marshals fighting instead of its richest, from ney, soult, Murat, and especially davout, France had not only Napoleon but a whole arsenal of quality military minds
Khalid ibn al-Walid because the guy was literally given the title "Sword of Allah" and had 0 losses fighting the two superpowers at the same time despite being out numbered in all battles.
@@asomebody3448 Khalid was 100 plus-0 actually, so he was arguably better. Nevertheless you admitted he was one of the greatest, which some people try to deny, so respect!
@@Pardisc13895 You are ignorant and hateful. You do not know history. You speak without knowledge. You must provide evidence. How can an army consisting of 200,000 Romans get tired of fighting 20,000?!!! Use your idle mind, you are just a racist who hates anything related to Islam... You are just nothing talking about people who have been immortalized in history.
@@Pardisc13895You are ignorant and hateful. You do not know history. You speak without knowledge. You must provide evidence. How can an army consisting of 200,000 Romans get tired of fighting 20,000?!!! Use your idle mind, you are just a racist who hates anything related to Islam... You are just nothing talking about people who have been immortalized in history.
@@Pardisc13895You are ignorant and hateful. You do not know history. You speak without knowledge. You must provide evidence. How can an army consisting of 200,000 Romans get tired of fighting 20,000?!!! Use your idle mind, you are just a racist who hates anything related to Islam... You are just nothing talking about people who have been immortalized in history.
@@Pardisc13895what? This is war you need to exploit enemy weakness, Khalid was genius as he always been in disadvantage and used his strategic planning to win battles.btw coward won’t be involved in war that deemed to lose
But this is not the case with Khalid ibn Al Walid.. In almost all of his battles he first fought the best fighter of the enemies in a 1v1 and always won..
@@hakon5473 Ok so this is what I found: Battle of Dara (530) Battle of Ad Decimum (533) Battle of Tricamarum (533) Siege of Naples (536) Siege of Rome (537-538) Battle of the Milvian Bridge (537) Siege of Ariminum (538) I admit he was a great commander but i dont find the number of battles you are stating.
Genghis Khan begs to differ :P still the man who conquered the biggest empire in all of history (yeah yeah the British Empire was bigger but not conquered by one man!)
Once you add up Napoleon and his Marshalls and Wellington you realize how insanely brutal the Napoleonic wars were and how dominant the French army was.
So , Duke of Wellington (A great one indeed) is higher that Khalid ? Really ? If we measure greatness , we should look at how simple , what difficulties they faced , and how it affected history !! Khalid in my unbiased opinion is the greatest , far greater than Napoleon. He was never defeated , the greatest user of calvaries ever , a great tactician , a strong warrior himself , and most importantly ; the one who shaped the current world map of the middle east To sum up , it is never easy to expand your effect 1400 years ahead Strange how people don't know about him , but media effect I think . Cheers
@Celuta provided that the records are right , so we agree , friend. This is not about who is the greatest or the most genius , it is about who won more ✨ . We agree , like in tennis , Connors won the most but the 3 goats are still playing
Also some people should not be included like prophet Muhammad , because he was not a general , if we measure greatness in all aspects of human life including conquest , he is the greatest ever by very very far (unbiased)
Как то не корректно сравнивать... 8 битв Рокоссовского ни по масштабам ни по количеству войск в какое сравнение не идут с битвами Гебхарда Блюхера. При Ауэрштедте, Даву с 25к размотал в одиночку почти 60к пруссаков вместе с Блюхером.
Fun fact: during the production of the movie the death of Stalin, they had to lower the number of medal of Georgy Zhukov in order to look "real" because the amount of medal he got irl woul've looked surreal in a movie, I think that's got it done
Have you seen a North Korean General? They have more medals in their uniforms than Kardashians have shoes in their closets. Reality is often unrealistic.
Most of the Soviet medals are anniversary medals, 5-10-20-25 years of whatever. The ones that count are on the top. In case of Zhukov he received the highest award possible at the time, Hero of The Soviet Union 4 times (only one on the image). 3 (well deserved) for World War 2 and the fourth for political manoeuvring after Stalin's death.
Happy Bicentenary my Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ! Best Conquerer of Europe and Best General in History with 56 battles won. (Rumors say it's 70) 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 Battle of Austerlitz 1805 was his Greatest Victory
Imagine crossing the alpes when no one has ever done it, losing 65% of your army there and still winning the following battle. After all of that when people think of Hannibal, they think of Hannibal lector
I feel sorry for Hannibal, he broke the legions of Rome and he could have actually won, which would have made history very different, but Carthage did not send enough support for him (they were not overstretched, Carthage did indeed have enough resources to overcome Rome at this point if they had actually committed to it). Hannibal's political rivals led by Hanno II repeatedly denied Hannibal's requests for reinforcements because Hanno thought Rome was unbeatable and wanted to instead focus Carthage's military on conquering territory in Africa and making peace with Rome, because Hanno had personal investments in Africa. Hanno was so convinced that fighting Rome was futile that he demoralized and delayed his own navy in the 1st Punic War and then left Hannibal's armies without backup in the 2nd Punic War. After ensuring that his own country lost both wars, Hanno then hoped to negotiate peace with Rome, but (big shocker) Rome took advantage of Carthage's weakness and took nearly everything, including all that precious African territory Hanno had claimed. Hannibal: Help me, we can win if you just help me! I only need enough for one more decisive strike before they recover! Hanno: No, we must sabotage our own armies and render ourselves defenseless. Only then will Rome leave us alone! Rome: *Destroys Carthage* Hanno: *Surprised Pikachu*
A lot of myth and few facts about Hannibal. E.g. it is unlikely he lost 65% of his army when crossing the Alpes. It is more likely the numbers from Spain were subtracted by the numbers he arrived in in Italy, ignoring that he left troops in Northern Spain (which was not under Carthaginian influence) and only crossed with his crack troops knowing the situation in Italy was unstable for Rome (with freshly conquered Gauls and Greeks being very, very unhappy and ready to rebel). Also the fact he did not receive much support is also something one must see in the wider strategic context. Rome controlled the seas and thus the inner lines of transport. In return Carthage had to split its attention between defending Spain and Africa given Rome's first reaction before Hannibal's move was to go straight for those targets with two consular armies. Both those regions were essential for Carthage to continue the war. They could not easily reinforce Hannibal and those regions needed armies, too. Just like the Romans were split on what strategy to adopt so were the Carthaginians. The idea that Hanno was a hand wringing fool is just based on the outcome, not based on the necessities as seen at the time. The war also dragged on for 17 years which is many times more any other Roman enemy held out so it is also false to think Carthage was a pushover that did not know how to mobilize armies. Most Hellenic kingdoms surrendered major territory inside one or two battles. So given Carthage gave Rome nearly 40 years worth of war all over the Eastern Mediterran we have the only other power that managed to keep up with Rome for nearly two generations worth of carnage. I find it particularly fascinating in how they apparently were able to rally a multitude of people to their banner continuously and train them to fight in a disciplined fashion.
Fun fact: Napoleon was obsessed with Hannibal and Julius Caesar. He learned from scripts and literature how Caesar was effective with speed and aggression. Julius Caesar was the 1st inventor of "Blitzkrieg"
Napoléon has won 56 battles, but generals under his orders like Ney Murat Masséna Kléber are very well classed as well, it shows juste how much strong his empire was
The main factor that led to napoléons great empire was that he believed in meritocracy instead of family relations getting you into a powerful position. He recognised talent in people, and promoted them instead of other nations at the time which only went on familial relations and not true talent.
@@tfw8738 i worship napoleon, but to say he promoted on merits while he made all his brothers, sisters and brothers-in-law kings, viceroys, marquees and sent them to govern places they never heard of, let alone know something about them, that seems a bit much don't you think? :D
@@gorgimiksa Not totally true. Most of the time he promoted his fellow companions who are trusted the must and members of his famlily who, even then, without being from the country they ruled, weren't as dumb as people like Olivier Véran or Sibeth Ndiaye (I'm from France). Edit : I corrected a mistake.
@@gorgimiksa he put merit based promotion into french law but you’re right there’s an obvious irony/hypocrisy in making his siblings kings but he would have thought he needed people he could trust working in the vassal areas of his empire. Most of all he made his brothers kings as he wanted some allies.Napoleon had no allies among the throne inheriting monarchs of Europe who despised his merit based rise.
No, he placed his family members (Jerome & Eugene; his brother & step-son respectively) in charge of the formations moving into Russia in 1812. 500,000 men were lost in the biggest military humiliation of all time. Meritocratic my ass. For perspective, the number of US troops that died in the whole of World War 2 was 407,300 (and that was over a 4 year period in the age of the machine gun, the flying bomber, the RPG, and the tank)
@@georgebardsley7129 It's a fallacious reasoning. Napoleon 1. didn't lose because of Wellington alone far from it, which btw wasn't there during the most decisive and the biggest battles of the conflicts (Borodino, Leipzig...) 2. changed military warfare forever, and had most of his military innovations copied by his ennemies, over time. Napoleon was just in a very difficult, unfavorable situation (a bit like Hannibal), though he could still have "won" (before Leipzig though, after that it was too late and futile) but well, it's easy to say that now.
@Rays How was he a coward he took the fight to France in Spain against some of Napoleons most distinguished marshalls? A coward would've stayed in Britain doing nothing, Wellington was not a coward, also a coward would not put his life on the line like he did at waterloo being exposed to 500+ French cannon bombardments of which could've killed him. Wellington fought a long side his men like a warrior.
He's just scared of General Sherman right next to him, because Sherman implemented the scorched-earth strategy in the American Civil War, and Scipio remembers Carthaginians doing the same thing when they invaded the Roman Empire.
Who's with me here listening to this soulness bit it reminds me of those famous people and victorious men who fought 😭 and died a soldier ❤❤❤ The world came from far and it's going very far may we pray to God 🙏 to guide us and there will be no more wars
Napoleon, although of low Corsican nobility, was a soldier of the French Revolution who made a career in the French Republican Army who fought against the French royalists during a civil war in France, French royalists being supported by foreign monarchies hostile to the French revolution. Thus, he made himself noticed for the first time by contributing by his action to take back the port of Toulon that the French royalists had opened to the English fleet. Napoleon could thus be compared to the English Cromwell who led the armies of the parliament defeated the royal armies of the Stuart dynasty.But once he came to power, Napoleon while seeking to preserve the French revolutionary achievements as the principle of"equality among citizens, promulgated a broad amnesty for exiled aristocrats of France and contributed to the religious peace France between republicans and Catholics by signing in 1802 a concordat with the pope. If it is criticized in France for its multiple wars and the resulting conscription, it has always been considered as a peacemaker inside the country so much that a very large number of its multiple administrative reforms, Schools, legal as the Civil Code, survived in the following regimes some of which were initially hostile to it as royalty restored until our present time. The best example of Napoleon’s spirit of national concord was on 22 June 1815 when he had been outvoted by the parliamentary chambers elected in the parliamentary elections of April 1815 where his political opponents were in the majority (because he had had the imprudence of not suspending or dissolving parliament before his departure for the military campaign) and while his brother Lucien and the minister Carnot asked him to arrest the parliamentarians and to establish the military dictatorship with the support of the arrest which was favorable to him in order to face the invasion of the territory,Napoleon preferred to abdicate to avoid a civil war between his numerous supporters and his royalist political opponents who supported the return of King Bourbon Louis XVIII.
It’s not about the Count of wins, it’s about the strategy and circumstances of the battles! Hannibal with his battle of Cannae alone should have been put at top of the list and Scipios victory at Zama makes him deserve a top 10 too…
Napoleon was just one of the most interesting leaders in history and seriously people think he would had a funny hat they have no idea how powerful this man was
Napoleon was bisquits and tree lava over a hill on a plane and into the woods foraging for mountains under a river full of cats raining how powerful army.
Who else knew without ever looking at the facts that Napoleon was gonna be at top, also there are like 5 of his marshals in this list, a clear indication of how powerful the France was at that time
I knew he would be #1 and also that a bunch of his marshals would be in there too. The First French Empire really steamrolled every other nation for a while there.
@@karim4life72 firstly the term war crime didn't exist back then, Geneva convention was held much later after the end of Napoleonic wars.... Secondly whatever he did wasn't unique, everyone used to do that, it was common for that time
What is funny is that Napoleon, while visiting the grave of Fredrik the great, Ordered his generals to salute, saying “Gentlemen, If this man were still alive I would not be here”
@@belisarius727 Yes. Napoleon's army was inexperienced, outnumbered and other factors I forgot, but yes he was beaten, there's no denying that. But you still have to remember it took... A don't remember the how many coalitions made by the English, but this time Napoléon lost.
Military battles won doesn’t mean how good of a genera you were. In Napoleon’s time, battles were more common and he had more enemies and war time. Fredrick the great only participated in the seven years war where he held out against Russia, Austria, and France for the entire first part of the war.
Love him or hate it, Napoleon deserves respect. It’s not just how many battles he won, its who he beat, and how many times he humiliated his enemies through the 10 yrs that France was the hegemonic power of Europe. This man’s astute brain power singlehandedly defeated numerous coalition armies of the most developed countries of the world at that time in history, practically dominated his rivals with the help of his Marshals many of whom appear on this list as well, just illustrates just how dominant The French Empire was at its height. He was a brilliant strategist and master tactician that outmaneuvered his enemies on the battlefield on most occasions before most of them even had a chance to react. His greatest enemy was his own ego and Hubris in the end as we all know, however his flaws should not understate the force of nature this man truly was, As the great Theodore Dodge called him one of the great captains in history.
@@CutieZalbu His ego like invading russia and spain. I couldn't blame napoleon for doing this after all the enemies kept declaring war. Peace would not have mattered if they broke it again.
@@rastellikk is correct, Paulus created his own plan, Operation Donnerschlag or Thunderclap to meet up with Manstein relieving force. But Manstein either believing the Luftwaffe's claim to supply Stalingrad from the air or not understanding the situation told his Subordinate, Paulus, to stand his ground in the city.
@@rastellikk like you say...their progress to free them. This shows that he wasnt the cause of its destruction because the 6st army already was in trouble or encircled.
Marshall Davout his best Marshall by himself is a legend : - Anihilated the main Prussian army by himself outnumbered 3 to 1. - Never beaten - Even when the coalition was winning at the end, Davout held all of Germany and the allies were unable to beat him. - After the abdication of Napoléon, Davout placed his troop on the Loire river, when the allies learned the French were commanded by Davout the got scared and didn't cross the river. And just imagine Napoléon was on top of this man, a military genius that will be remembered even in 3000 years just like Alexander.
@@faisalnehal372 give me a name of a commander who never lost a battle?! you said probably the number was 150000 so your never sure. where do you get your info from?!
@@mahmoudobaid9773 well, Alexander never lost a battle and I'm pretty sure there are others out there. Also you can do research on the real estimates of the Roman and Persian armies that Khaled fought. 300000 is simply unrealistic considering the context of the time period.
When Napoleon was exiled for the second time, Marshal Ney was arrested and put on trial for treason. In his trial, his lawyer said that he was now Prussian and could not be tried for treason because Ney's hometown Sarrelouis had been annexed by Prussia in the Treaty of Paris. Ney ruined his lawyer's effort by interrupting him and saying "I am French and I will remain French." He was executed by firing squad in Paris. But he refused to wear a blindfold and was allowed the right to give the order to fire, reportedly saying "Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her ... Soldiers, fire!"
@@ilsey4733 I doubt it. Not all the planned assassins stabbed him so if the plan was carried out perfectly and all the assassins stabbed him, he would have had more than 23.
"If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
“My glory is not that I won forty battles and dictated the law to kings… Waterloo wipes out the memory of all my victories… But what will be wiped out by nothing and will live forever is my Civil Code.” -Napoleon
@@ΧΑΡΟΥΛΑΓΙΑΝΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ-ε5ν and i think he knows a little more about fighting than you doo paaal Coz he invented it...and then he perfected it so that no living man can best him in the ring of honor
Should be noted that Alexander the Great is probably _the_ figure revered most by generals throughout history, from Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus (who named himself Magnus (“the Great”) in imitation of Alexander), to Napoleon who only invaded Egypt because Alexander had done so. He’s one of the very few who can claim to have never lost a single battle, he helped his father conquer much of southern Greece then conquered all of Persia by 32, and had his army not forced him to turn back he would have continued moving east through India. Also, come on, Genghis Khan should be on here too, he transformed the Mongols into an army that went on to conquer much of Eurasia, in lightning speed thanks to their skill with bows and horses.
Pompey didn’t actually name himself ‘Magnus’, it was bestowed upon him by Sulla however it was a nod toward Pompey’s boyhood hero, Alexander the Great Fun fact: Pompey’s enemies also gave him the sobriquet of ‘adulescentulus carnifex’ meaning ‘the teenage butcher’ as a result of his sheer ruthlessness in battle.
You right this list is stupid asf, but Napoleon is number 1, he faces much harder opposition without the advantages Alexander had like 18’ spears that made the phalanx almost unbreakable
As a muslim, I place Khalid ibn al walid first and place Alexander of Macedon 2nd, and then Napoleon, and then Baibars. These men changed the world we live in drastically by their wins in battles. Edit: for those of you who think I placed him first because he is a better General, no! I placed him first because he changed the world drastically through his conquests ultimately commanded by prophet Muhammad (upon him be peace) sure, Napoleon changed the world we live in so much, But Napoleon lived only 200 years ago while Khalid lived 1400 years ago, so in terms of hiatory he changed that more.
@@user-yk4ji Nah. Napoleon literally destroyed 5 great powers of the world while france's government was still in shambles. Napoleon was so strong that the only way to defeat him was running away
"Alright guys, Napoleon is coming for us, so I got good plan. See if you can follow me on this. When he approaches, we run away." "Sir, you're a genius."
"Couldn't defeat no2" yeahhh let's take a look at the sides shall we? Team 1: Napoleon Team 2: the United Kingdom, the Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Spain, Kingdom of Naples, Kingdom of Sicily, Kingdom of Sardinia, Dutch Republic, Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Portugal, Kingdom of Sweden. you look like a clown right now KEKW
@@mamamia5668 Genghis led his own campaigns during his lifetime. He’s the one who united the mongol tribes, structured the army, invaded Jin China and crushed the Khwarazmians.
Napoleon and his 9 generals are ranked in top 100. No wonder Napoleon has banished from Europe...
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His generals were nothing special without him, Murat for example - great cavalry commander under Napoleon, but shit when commanding alone. Davout was the only one who deserve to be on this list. But the list itself is a joke, Douglas Haig n.11??? David Petraeus???
I'd say Louis-Nicolas Davout was second to Napoleon, maybe even better than him (at certain points) Napoleons marshals often did most to win the battle than Napoleon, they who were in the thick of fighting and responsible for tactical victories. But Napoleon was the brain, and they were the body, so Napoleon is superior. Davout proved himself at the twin battles of Jena-Auerstadt, it has been said: " At Jena, Napoleon won a battle he could not lose. At Auerstadt, Davout won a battle he could not win." Davout was a brilliant, cunning and stern disciplinarian, who led the Grande Armée III corps, in the most trying and difficult battles, succeeding at the greatest odds. So much, that Napoleon called the III corps "my X legion." A reference to Julius Caesars tenth legion, the most reliable unit of his army.
正確でない北条時宗は含まれていませんモングル軍団を２回追い返した そして世界で例のない一方的に勝利した日本海海戦の 東郷平八郎がない The inaccurate one does include Kamito tokuyasu there isno HeihachiroTogo of the japan Sea naval battle that caused the worlds unilateralnebound by overturning the Mongolian corps twice
Unfortunately, this fact has been ignored by many. Many historical personalities known to people as great military geniuses actually owe their reputation to their skilful commanders. Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and some others rose thanks to the skills of their commanders. In my eyes, the greatest military geniuses of history are as follows: 1.Khalid ibn Walid 2. Hannibal Barca 3.genghis khan 4. tamerlane 5. Julius Caesar.
the overall effect on war doesn't necessarily indicate commanders' abilities. It might be casualties inflicted due to war with consideration of world's population at battles timeframe but still, this is better than what you have suggested.
In 1813: the European coalition finally realize the only way to beat Napoleon was to avoid him, targeting his generals instead. But during the battle of Dresden, Austria ignored the plans and got humiliated even when Napoleon was out numbered.
They had over 100K numerical advantage and lost 4 times as many casualties. On numbers probably napoelons single greatest victory and that’s in a war he lost. If he had no horse shortages the coalition woulda been destroyed after Dresden
@@wilmerbesitan1200 the iron marshall if he was apart of waterloo france would of won before the prussians even came to the field and won the day, davout was the best marshall he had with talent and leadership sure ney has massive balls for telling the troops who killed him via firing squad when to fire instead of their officer but davout is just a great general
yeah I mean like if you have an army with like 50k troops and then you win against an army with 2k troops you dont have to be a good commander I mean even I could win this war
@@maximilianheiss5684 Not really. Numbers don't equal victory, The 300 is a perfect example. The Persians weren't amateurs either, it's all about who you are against.
You’re not even wrong. I mean it may not be 50% but off the top of my head I can think of 24 battles he won against Austria. 17 of them within a year 1796-1797. Then Marengo Ulm Austerlitz Eckmuhl Regensburg Wagram and Znaim take it up to 24. And that’s before the sixth coalition when you made Schwarzenburg- an austrian commander- run away many times. So I’d say nearly half are vs the Austrian Empire
Battles, not skirmishes. Battles can last from 1 day too like 1 year. Or even a battle can be a campaign. Or a battle can be multiple skirmish’s into one. The battle has to happen at the same time and in a great affect. Like the African campaign was mostly skirmish but patton and Rommel won lots of skirmishes. But the battle of the bulge lasted like a month with heavy fighting constantly. The battle of verdun lasted like 1-2 years, I don’t remember the exact date
Good... Now try win it with no radar, map or AI assistance with perspective of your troop... Main reason to do this is because almost all general in this list didnt fly...
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A great Commander is not Judged by the count of his victories but of how he anchieved them and how important they were
Archives of Fantasy I know but some others not that high
Michael Christidis yeah fair enough plus some statistics are very wrong. Subutai should be much higher he really shouldn’t be outside anyone’s top five. this video has some big flaws. Some questionable statistics and ranking on just win counts, not more needed context.
Well yes. Alexander Suvorov must be higher. He didn't lost any fight.
Дмитрий Майборода true but he couldn’t secure an allied win in the second coalition against the French Republic
Nosey all the way then. Beats Bonie at Waterloo. The Duke was a badass.
Nobody:
Me: 56 won, height 5,6
Even though you are 5'6 back in you're day you were taller then average and the reason why we think that is because British propaganda,
vive la France ! vive l'empereur !
Classic bonaparte...
Atticus Badicus no, it was a measurement mix up not propaganda please do research
I swear the average person knows more about his height than his military strategic genius
Big F
This video should be titled "Top 100 Greatest Generals In History By Battles Won According To Wikipedia"
fangeltim ,he found wrong data, for example: Suvorov participated in more than 60 battles and did not lose once. I think that the author also missed many others good commanders.
not really cause there would be a lot of generals left out
@@ПашаВашкевич-ф3щ Suvorov won 93 battles and lose zero. So much lie in this video
Yes this video is stupid. Hum about the General Nguyen giap, I don't know for the Americans but didn't the French won the very most of the battles and accept Indochina independence because of the French people opinion and the international pressure ?
You forgot to add "According to Wikipedia"
The fact that more than a fourth of the top 20 was just Napoleon and his marshals is just funny.
No funny but plain interesting particularly good to tell people who always claim that the French are military losers and overall cowards
That's what happens when you look for talent rather than loyalty, and hell, they we're both, Napoleonic Wars was a rollercoaster of emotions
That's why I'm proud to be French 🇨🇵
@@scandalou6508You shouldn't be proud of war and killing people bro
@@furkanozdemir6754 Wtf ?
“I am average height for the time” Napoleon Bonaparte
Woah,its a stumpy little manlet
"What did you say you little prick?" Napoleon
Haha oversimplified
lol oversimplified
man of culture i see
julius caesar win the same amount of battles as times he got stabbed in the back
oof
By the conspirators 7 of them including his trusted Brutus stabbed him :(
Caesar protecc
Caesar atacc
But most importantly...
Caesar got stabbed in the bacc
That's fate. Obviously fate.
Bro Khalid ibn Walid didn't lost any single war in his life tym
Because of the revolution France has the most skilled of its marshals fighting instead of its richest, from ney, soult, Murat, and especially davout, France had not only Napoleon but a whole arsenal of quality military minds
You forgot to mention three more russian generals: December, January and February
The Russian Generals won one more battle than given credit for: Surviving Stalin's army purges of the 1930s.
The best Army is Russian Winter
What about november and march?
the real video name is 100 Greatest Generals in europa
@@kavehshirazi105 Rússia has a great territory in Europe, and it's in Europe that Moscow is located
The size of war is important, not the number of the war.
You mean battles
*Battles| but yeah it should be depends on the difficulties of that battles and how they lead their troops to victories and that's what i look for
I could take on a 500 kids with my 50 fully armoured men 100 times and would be crowned the fucking idiot who has the racord on winning battles
If you start a world war and actually win, well that'll be something new.
Absolutely bro
Erwin Rommel once said:
"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."
What makes me uncomfortable is that it's slidin' to the left
You really must be uncomfortable if your standing on your head.
Lool your drunk
@@coolthefool1 well i was just... commenting i guess 😶
throwing some ham Lool it's calm
@林 that's...racist?
You forgot General Kenobi (57 BBY - 0 BBY) of the Galactic Republic
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@@oghuzEarendil GENERAL KENOBI!!!
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How many battles won though?
Khalid ibn al-Walid because the guy was literally given the title "Sword of Allah" and had 0 losses fighting the two superpowers at the same time despite being out numbered in all battles.
They have still non played matches😅
@@asomebody3448 Khalid was 100 plus-0 actually, so he was arguably better. Nevertheless you admitted he was one of the greatest, which some people try to deny, so respect!
alexandar beat pouras also capture pakistan .. .. he wants to go beyond .. capture india n arab land but his troops dont support him ..
khalid ibn walid was clever he out numbered through small battles
Rumon Ron woow.... because he was a muslim that y u talking bulshit...
Khaled Ibn Al-Walid defeated the Persians and Romans, the most powerful armies in the world at that time. He is a legend 20k men vs 200k+ 🤯
@@Pardisc13895 You are ignorant and hateful. You do not know history. You speak without knowledge. You must provide evidence. How can an army consisting of 200,000 Romans get tired of fighting 20,000?!!! Use your idle mind, you are just a racist who hates anything related to Islam... You are just nothing talking about people who have been immortalized in history.
@@Pardisc13895You are ignorant and hateful. You do not know history. You speak without knowledge. You must provide evidence. How can an army consisting of 200,000 Romans get tired of fighting 20,000?!!! Use your idle mind, you are just a racist who hates anything related to Islam... You are just nothing talking about people who have been immortalized in history.
@@Pardisc13895You are ignorant and hateful. You do not know history. You speak without knowledge. You must provide evidence. How can an army consisting of 200,000 Romans get tired of fighting 20,000?!!! Use your idle mind, you are just a racist who hates anything related to Islam... You are just nothing talking about people who have been immortalized in history.
@@Pardisc13895what? This is war you need to exploit enemy weakness, Khalid was genius as he always been in disadvantage and used his strategic planning to win battles.btw coward won’t be involved in war that deemed to lose
@@Pardisc13895 I agree, god (Allah) set the ground for khalid bin walid to conquer them, Indeed he is the most powerful and capable of doing anything.
Most of Napoleon's gang are here. Most of his Marshals.
Yes and some of his ennemies as well.. Crazy times.
What a war he waged!
Yes sir
Same
It's funny to see that the n°2 is the one that have actually beat Napoleon who is n°1 haha
And they are both born the same year
coincidences
"Soldiers generally win battles generals get credit for them.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
general make the strategic for the soldier to win
But this is not the case with Khalid ibn Al Walid.. In almost all of his battles he first fought the best fighter of the enemies in a 1v1 and always won..
Büyük İskender ,Hanibal, Ervin rommel
Halid bin Velid Alexander suvarov gibiler öyle değiller ama
Say that to Alexander the great or Khalid ibn Walid
@@befa5322 lmao no
''23 battles won, 23 stabbed''
-Julius Caesar
😂
Lol
Ironic. I am studying Rome in school xD
23 STAB WOUNDS
*slaps file on table*
Sad lol
Forgot Flavius Belisarius, won 16 battles most of them with forces less than half of the enemy.
can you list the names of the battles?
@@TheDON2111 just search him up.
@@hakon5473 Ok so this is what I found:
Battle of Dara (530)
Battle of Ad Decimum (533)
Battle of Tricamarum (533)
Siege of Naples (536)
Siege of Rome (537-538)
Battle of the Milvian Bridge (537)
Siege of Ariminum (538)
I admit he was a great commander but i dont find the number of battles you are stating.
Pirro de epiro falto
Khalid bin Walid never lost a single battle in his life, and he should have been in first place.
“My enemies are many, my equals are none” - Napoleon Bonaparte 🐐
Give me an army of Turks and I'll take the world hostage.
🇹🇷
~Napoléon Bonaparte
Genghis Khan begs to differ :P still the man who conquered the biggest empire in all of history (yeah yeah the British Empire was bigger but not conquered by one man!)
@@DiscusvissenRocken he wasn’t one man he had a huge army do it
In the shade of olive trees, they said Italy could never be conquered.
@@australium7374 same can be said for Napoleon.
"I too have seen Oversimplified and get all references" -Napoleon Bonaparte
General kenobi
YOU ARE A BOLD ONE
im better than napey lol
Also Robert E. Lee was there from american civil war oversimplified😅
Napoleon has 20 assassination attempted
I feel like win-loss record would be even more telling.
My boy alexander the great taking the w
well khalid ibn waleed 0 losses
i mean he is undefeated Conqueror
If that was the case Napoleon would still be #1 due to the sheer number of wins.
Khalid .. 28 .. ratio
#4 is the only one undefeated in the top 20
If we take into account all the battles, then Alexander Suvorov participated in 60 battles and did not lose in any of them
I think its counted i Hé was the chief of staff at thé battel
*Austria declares war on France
Napoleon: “How many times do I gotta teach you this lesson old man?”
Another Oversimplified fella
@@swastikturan257 yes😎 Napoleon was such a badass
S e v e n t i m e s
Hilarious And Original
6 times I guess...
“Never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake - Napoleon Bonaparte
unknowingly true right there!
Wise
I think Sun Tzu said that
@@kanestalin7246 seemingly they both said it lol
Why ?
Once you add up Napoleon and his Marshalls and Wellington you realize how insanely brutal the Napoleonic wars were and how dominant the French army was.
So , Duke of Wellington (A great one indeed) is higher that Khalid ? Really ?
If we measure greatness , we should look at how simple , what difficulties they faced , and how it affected history !!
Khalid in my unbiased opinion is the greatest , far greater than Napoleon.
He was never defeated , the greatest user of calvaries ever , a great tactician , a strong warrior himself , and most importantly ; the one who shaped the current world map of the middle east
To sum up , it is never easy to expand your effect 1400 years ahead
Strange how people don't know about him , but media effect I think . Cheers
@@ahmedazeem1642 this video is about battles won my guy
@Celuta provided that the records are right , so we agree , friend. This is not about who is the greatest or the most genius , it is about who won more ✨ . We agree , like in tennis , Connors won the most but the 3 goats are still playing
Also some people should not be included like prophet Muhammad , because he was not a general , if we measure greatness in all aspects of human life including conquest , he is the greatest ever by very very far (unbiased)
@@ahmedazeem1642 ok the video was 3 years ago its not that deep
Как то не корректно сравнивать... 8 битв Рокоссовского ни по масштабам ни по количеству войск в какое сравнение не идут с битвами Гебхарда Блюхера. При Ауэрштедте, Даву с 25к размотал в одиночку почти 60к пруссаков вместе с Блюхером.
да тут те ещё счётоводы. это ж ютуб
Ещё и победы Суворова 16 а не 60
Все сложно сравнивать ведь разние года жизни и битв
Pfft, none of them hold a candle to General Kenobi...
Hello There!
@@bengaliperson5127 general Kenobi!
It has been almost a year and im still waiting for some poor soul who doesn't know starwars to get triggered over the general kenobi comments.
@@bleflar9183 i want that honour but I love star wars too much to do it
Fun fact: during the production of the movie the death of Stalin, they had to lower the number of medal of Georgy Zhukov in order to look "real" because the amount of medal he got irl woul've looked surreal in a movie, I think that's got it done
@Putra NF ngomong ap sw
@Adecodoo yea sure but Zhukov won all his medal during the war fighting nazi, he earned them buy fighting not polishing shoes
Have you seen a North Korean General? They have more medals in their uniforms than Kardashians have shoes in their closets. Reality is often unrealistic.
Most of the Soviet medals are anniversary medals, 5-10-20-25 years of whatever. The ones that count are on the top. In case of Zhukov he received the highest award possible at the time, Hero of The Soviet Union 4 times (only one on the image). 3 (well deserved) for World War 2 and the fourth for political manoeuvring after Stalin's death.
Damn list dominated by Napoleon and his generals.
Well with basically all of Europeagainst Napoleon,he had more than one chance to extend his list of victories !
@Hornyshark for real? Ma cack big
@mr marq Christianism was already spread at that time...
And we could say the same for other religions
@mr marq Man u sound stupid, christians has been around the world even before muslim. It was spread by the roman empire.
That's a shocker
Napoleon 56 Battles? Damn this guy woke up and said I'm taking over Europe.
Bro was on demon time, bro farmed materials for sword enhancements, bro farmed with his gang for some exp
“I have defeated the Austrians by simply marching” -Nepoleon Bonaparte
Aha , from Oversimplified I guess .
@@sknajibulhaque3595 aha yes
Happy Bicentenary my Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ! Best Conquerer of Europe and Best General in History with 56 battles won. (Rumors say it's 70)
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🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
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Battle of Austerlitz 1805 was his Greatest Victory
I get very happy whenever I see another Oversimplified fan online!
What comes after Emperor
Imagine crossing the alpes when no one has ever done it, losing 65% of your army there and still winning the following battle. After all of that when people think of Hannibal, they think of Hannibal lector
I feel sorry for Hannibal, he broke the legions of Rome and he could have actually won, which would have made history very different, but Carthage did not send enough support for him (they were not overstretched, Carthage did indeed have enough resources to overcome Rome at this point if they had actually committed to it). Hannibal's political rivals led by Hanno II repeatedly denied Hannibal's requests for reinforcements because Hanno thought Rome was unbeatable and wanted to instead focus Carthage's military on conquering territory in Africa and making peace with Rome, because Hanno had personal investments in Africa. Hanno was so convinced that fighting Rome was futile that he demoralized and delayed his own navy in the 1st Punic War and then left Hannibal's armies without backup in the 2nd Punic War. After ensuring that his own country lost both wars, Hanno then hoped to negotiate peace with Rome, but (big shocker) Rome took advantage of Carthage's weakness and took nearly everything, including all that precious African territory Hanno had claimed.
Hannibal: Help me, we can win if you just help me! I only need enough for one more decisive strike before they recover!
Hanno: No, we must sabotage our own armies and render ourselves defenseless. Only then will Rome leave us alone!
Rome: *Destroys Carthage*
Hanno: *Surprised Pikachu*
A lot of myth and few facts about Hannibal. E.g. it is unlikely he lost 65% of his army when crossing the Alpes. It is more likely the numbers from Spain were subtracted by the numbers he arrived in in Italy, ignoring that he left troops in Northern Spain (which was not under Carthaginian influence) and only crossed with his crack troops knowing the situation in Italy was unstable for Rome (with freshly conquered Gauls and Greeks being very, very unhappy and ready to rebel).
Also the fact he did not receive much support is also something one must see in the wider strategic context. Rome controlled the seas and thus the inner lines of transport. In return Carthage had to split its attention between defending Spain and Africa given Rome's first reaction before Hannibal's move was to go straight for those targets with two consular armies. Both those regions were essential for Carthage to continue the war. They could not easily reinforce Hannibal and those regions needed armies, too.
Just like the Romans were split on what strategy to adopt so were the Carthaginians. The idea that Hanno was a hand wringing fool is just based on the outcome, not based on the necessities as seen at the time.
The war also dragged on for 17 years which is many times more any other Roman enemy held out so it is also false to think Carthage was a pushover that did not know how to mobilize armies. Most Hellenic kingdoms surrendered major territory inside one or two battles. So given Carthage gave Rome nearly 40 years worth of war all over the Eastern Mediterran we have the only other power that managed to keep up with Rome for nearly two generations worth of carnage. I find it particularly fascinating in how they apparently were able to rally a multitude of people to their banner continuously and train them to fight in a disciplined fashion.
@@tristanfaulkner6003 Well said.
Ok boomer
Hanibal ante Portas!!!!!!!!
Fun fact: Napoleon was obsessed with Hannibal and Julius Caesar. He learned from scripts and literature how Caesar was effective with speed and aggression. Julius Caesar was the 1st inventor of "Blitzkrieg"
So thats what rush B stands for, rush Blitzkrieg
@@trollardo9720 in Caesar's case, rush Britain
You clearly have no clue what blitzkrieg means.
@@MaFd0n Blitzkrieg=Ligthing War lol
interesting, you have sent me on a quest..
You missed General Grievous, Supreme Commander of the Confederacy of Independent Systems' Droid Armies during the Clone Wars.
Won every battle. Too bad the Military genius general Kenobi killed him in the battle of Utapau.
@@rookield8077 in a very uncivilized way
Obi-Wan : Hello There
what about general kenobi?
I hope the Gengus Kan dies cause 喝 killed 65 million people
The amount of aura this video has is insane
Napoléon has won 56 battles, but generals under his orders like Ney Murat Masséna Kléber are very well classed as well, it shows juste how much strong his empire was
The main factor that led to napoléons great empire was that he believed in meritocracy instead of family relations getting you into a powerful position. He recognised talent in people, and promoted them instead of other nations at the time which only went on familial relations and not true talent.
@@tfw8738 i worship napoleon, but to say he promoted on merits while he made all his brothers, sisters and brothers-in-law kings, viceroys, marquees and sent them to govern places they never heard of, let alone know something about them, that seems a bit much don't you think? :D
@@gorgimiksa Not totally true. Most of the time he promoted his fellow companions who are trusted the must and members of his famlily who, even then, without being from the country they ruled, weren't as dumb as people like Olivier Véran or Sibeth Ndiaye (I'm from France).
Edit : I corrected a mistake.
@@gorgimiksa he put merit based promotion into french law but you’re right there’s an obvious irony/hypocrisy in making his siblings kings but he would have thought he needed people he could trust working in the vassal areas of his empire. Most of all he made his brothers kings as he wanted some allies.Napoleon had no allies among the throne inheriting monarchs of Europe who despised his merit based rise.
No, he placed his family members (Jerome & Eugene; his brother & step-son respectively) in charge of the formations moving into Russia in 1812. 500,000 men were lost in the biggest military humiliation of all time. Meritocratic my ass. For perspective, the number of US troops that died in the whole of World War 2 was 407,300 (and that was over a 4 year period in the age of the machine gun, the flying bomber, the RPG, and the tank)
Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte were born in the same year What a coincidence
H .H
Napoleon may have won more battles but it was the Duke who won in the end
Bardo Napoleon is the undisputed greatest artillery commander of all time but the French’s tactics of marching columns into British lines was madness
@@georgebardsley7129 It's a fallacious reasoning. Napoleon 1. didn't lose because of Wellington alone far from it, which btw wasn't there during the most decisive and the biggest battles of the conflicts (Borodino, Leipzig...) 2. changed military warfare forever, and had most of his military innovations copied by his ennemies, over time.
Napoleon was just in a very difficult, unfavorable situation (a bit like Hannibal), though he could still have "won" (before Leipzig though, after that it was too late and futile) but well, it's easy to say that now.
The great people are born together in order to balance eachother
@Rays How was he a coward he took the fight to France in Spain against some of Napoleons most distinguished marshalls? A coward would've stayed in Britain doing nothing, Wellington was not a coward, also a coward would not put his life on the line like he did at waterloo being exposed to 500+ French cannon bombardments of which could've killed him. Wellington fought a long side his men like a warrior.
0:21
Everyone: Nice drawings of themselves
Scipio Africanus:
He looks fine ask Charles V
He is suffering
He looks like he just layed a giant turd.
He's just scared of General Sherman right next to him, because Sherman implemented the scorched-earth strategy in the American Civil War, and Scipio remembers Carthaginians doing the same thing when they invaded the Roman Empire.
4:07 That's nothing in comparison with Takeda Shingen
Who's with me here listening to this soulness bit it reminds me of those famous people and victorious men who fought 😭 and died a soldier ❤❤❤ The world came from far and it's going very far may we pray to God 🙏 to guide us and there will be no more wars
France:
This isn't even my final form.
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This only proves that the best way to have the most victorious generals is internal revolution (hundreds of small battles).
Napoleon was so good that even his own people are on this list
Michel ney
@@TiestoCalvinHarris Louis Gabriel Suchet , Jean de Dieu Soult , Jean Lannes , Saint Cyr
@@hermann5485Jean Lannes neden listede yok acaba?
Napoleon, although of low Corsican nobility, was a soldier of the French Revolution who made a career in the French Republican Army who fought against the French royalists during a civil war in France, French royalists being supported by foreign monarchies hostile to the French revolution. Thus, he made himself noticed for the first time by contributing by his action to take back the port of Toulon that the French royalists had opened to the English fleet. Napoleon could thus be compared to the English Cromwell who led the armies of the parliament defeated the royal armies of the Stuart dynasty.But once he came to power, Napoleon while seeking to preserve the French revolutionary achievements as the principle of"equality among citizens, promulgated a broad amnesty for exiled aristocrats of France and contributed to the religious peace France between republicans and Catholics by signing in 1802 a concordat with the pope. If it is criticized in France for its multiple wars and the resulting conscription, it has always been considered as a peacemaker inside the country so much that a very large number of its multiple administrative reforms, Schools, legal as the Civil Code, survived in the following regimes some of which were initially hostile to it as royalty restored until our present time.
The best example of Napoleon’s spirit of national concord was on 22 June 1815 when he had been outvoted by the parliamentary chambers elected in the parliamentary elections of April 1815 where his political opponents were in the majority (because he had had the imprudence of not suspending or dissolving parliament before his departure for the military campaign) and while his brother Lucien and the minister Carnot asked him to arrest the parliamentarians and to establish the military dictatorship with the support of the arrest which was favorable to him in order to face the invasion of the territory,Napoleon preferred to abdicate to avoid a civil war between his numerous supporters and his royalist political opponents who supported the return of King Bourbon Louis XVIII.
@@kingdarwin8953hes here
When you won 364 battles in Rome Total War:
- Amateurs.
651
10k in Hearts of Iron 4
@@aupra9010 USA is OP now, cause of the oil mechanic...
@@zethicc7557 didn't play the US since 1.6
That is a game you can think better in there
It’s not about the Count of wins, it’s about the strategy and circumstances of the battles! Hannibal with his battle of Cannae alone should have been put at top of the list and Scipios victory at Zama makes him deserve a top 10 too…
Napoleon was just one of the most interesting leaders in history and seriously people think he would had a funny hat they have no idea how powerful this man was
Yes
Napoleon lost his pp lol
Napoleon was bisquits and tree lava over a hill on a plane and into the woods foraging for mountains under a river full of cats raining how powerful army.
@@yangfire7349 it was small anyways
Peoples have no idea how powerful Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great were in there time they control like 40 % of the world population in there time
Who else knew without ever looking at the facts that Napoleon was gonna be at top, also there are like 5 of his marshals in this list, a clear indication of how powerful the France was at that time
In this list I’ve seen Ney, Davout, Murat, Massena, Soult, Moreau, Lannes, Suchet, Saint Cyr, Kleber and of course Napoleon at first
I knew he would be #1 and also that a bunch of his marshals would be in there too. The First French Empire really steamrolled every other nation for a while there.
@@praetoriandorn3154 he was great but had need defeated by Russian
Well but all he did was a war crime.
@@karim4life72 firstly the term war crime didn't exist back then, Geneva convention was held much later after the end of Napoleonic wars.... Secondly whatever he did wasn't unique, everyone used to do that, it was common for that time
What is funny is that Napoleon, while visiting the grave of Fredrik the great, Ordered his generals to salute, saying “Gentlemen, If this man were still alive I would not be here”
Until he remembered he had artillery, and the guy he's talking about didn't. 😁
And he was beaten in his last battle by the second place Duke Wellington.
@@belisarius727 Yes. Napoleon's army was inexperienced, outnumbered and other factors I forgot, but yes he was beaten, there's no denying that.
But you still have to remember it took... A don't remember the how many coalitions made by the English, but this time Napoléon lost.
He was being humble, if napoleon and fredrick Were in the same age napoleon will smash Frederick the great
Military battles won doesn’t mean how good of a genera you were. In Napoleon’s time, battles were more common and he had more enemies and war time. Fredrick the great only participated in the seven years war where he held out against Russia, Austria, and France for the entire first part of the war.
Very original presentation/format. Well done!
"you Will face a man who love death as you love life"
~khalid bin walid
He should be ranked #1 THE SWORD OF GOD
Assalamu'alaikum
Alternative name for Khalid: Murderer
@@ahmadhussein2366 he shouldnt've even been ranked. This video is about generals not thugs.
@@aliazarmehralparslan6067 alternative name for you:stupid
Love him or hate it, Napoleon deserves respect. It’s not just how many battles he won, its who he beat, and how many times he humiliated his enemies through the 10 yrs that France was the hegemonic power of Europe. This man’s astute brain power singlehandedly defeated numerous coalition armies of the most developed countries of the world at that time in history, practically dominated his rivals with the help of his Marshals many of whom appear on this list as well, just illustrates just how dominant The French Empire was at its height. He was a brilliant strategist and master tactician that outmaneuvered his enemies on the battlefield on most occasions before most of them even had a chance to react. His greatest enemy was his own ego and Hubris in the end as we all know, however his flaws should not understate the force of nature this man truly was, As the great Theodore Dodge called him one of the great captains in history.
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How did his “ego” or “hubris” lead him down? I just hear good things about him except when he claimed to be emperor even though Ppl loved it lol
@@CutieZalbu
His ego like invading russia and spain.
I couldn't blame napoleon for doing this after all the enemies kept declaring war.
Peace would not have mattered if they broke it again.
not gonna lie but when i saw napolien in no 1 I got really happy
he deserves the best general
@@marshalsoult3860 he declared war on them because they were not really his real friends and always turned on his back
I didn't see Erich von Manstein.
Manstein should be the best German general in WW2
True
@@rastellikk oh no...do your research
@@rastellikk is correct, Paulus created his own plan, Operation Donnerschlag or Thunderclap to meet up with Manstein relieving force. But Manstein either believing the Luftwaffe's claim to supply Stalingrad from the air or not understanding the situation told his Subordinate, Paulus, to stand his ground in the city.
@@rastellikk like you say...their progress to free them. This shows that he wasnt the cause of its destruction because the 6st army already was in trouble or encircled.
”People are castles, people are stone walls, people are moats, compassion is an ally, hostility is an enemy.”
-Takeda Shingen
Napoleon was just something else entirely. Even his generals are on this list.
Leonardo Datore google yi sun shin, him hannibal and alexander are the best in my book
@The School of Everything Gengis khan is the beastt
Marshall Davout his best Marshall by himself is a legend :
- Anihilated the main Prussian army by himself outnumbered 3 to 1.
- Never beaten
- Even when the coalition was winning at the end, Davout held all of Germany and the allies were unable to beat him.
- After the abdication of Napoléon, Davout placed his troop on the Loire river, when the allies learned the French were commanded by Davout the got scared and didn't cross the river.
And just imagine Napoléon was on top of this man, a military genius that will be remembered even in 3000 years just like Alexander.
Suvorov kicked all his generals.
@@tonyhawk94 Devout kicked by Russian Army in Krasnoi. Lost 6 times more men than Russians.
Napoleon + his marshals + his generals = 30% of the list
+ поражение от России
@@mahmoudobaid9773 Actually there were many more Generals who never lost a battle
@@ОлегКуманев and the Byzantines probably had 15.000 to 150.000 troops. Not 300.000
It's probably propaganda or the numbers just aren't clear
@@faisalnehal372 give me a name of a commander who never lost a battle?!
you said probably the number was 150000 so your never sure. where do you get your info from?!
@@mahmoudobaid9773 well, Alexander never lost a battle and I'm pretty sure there are others out there. Also you can do research on the real estimates of the Roman and Persian armies that Khaled fought. 300000 is simply unrealistic considering the context of the time period.
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Thanks for 700 likes! Really appreciate you guys.
There were never any doubt who was going to be #1
@@masselfur thank god he was first
Music please
@@rogerpenroset.blaine4233 three steps from hell - victory
@@hamizanhussin4904 two steps from hell
Showing generals: 😮
The music: AHHH UHUUUUU AAA AAAAAAAAA UHUHUUUU AAAAAA
When Napoleon was exiled for the second time, Marshal Ney was arrested and put on trial for treason. In his trial, his lawyer said that he was now Prussian and could not be tried for treason because Ney's hometown Sarrelouis had been annexed by Prussia in the Treaty of Paris. Ney ruined his lawyer's effort by interrupting him and saying "I am French and I will remain French." He was executed by firing squad in Paris. But he refused to wear a blindfold and was allowed the right to give the order to fire, reportedly saying "Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her ... Soldiers, fire!"
great man
@@waruiseishin953 he was a man of culture and loyalty😌
Wow! Sir a movie should be made of his gallantry and loyalty to France..
@@conradmanove8749 yes it should be!
The bravest of the brave.
Nobody:
Caesar: Won 23 times, was stabbed 23 times
Frank Castle yes
didnt realize that
That got to be hurts!!!
they probably did it on purpose
@@ilsey4733 I doubt it. Not all the planned assassins stabbed him so if the plan was carried out perfectly and all the assassins stabbed him, he would have had more than 23.
When France has the most victories In Europe but is remembered for that time they surrender
Heard about polish victories?
Sorry but nobody likes the french
@@propolacy2137 yes, about 20 of them in this vid (sorry actually 29 piłsudski exists)
@@bartekmostek4850 right.
@m n Turkish on blood , Dutch on paper but i hate both countries! soon in the future i will be an American citizen 🤡 i love America
So glad to see Marshal Ney on here. Such an underrated commander!
*_"We are surrounded, General !"_*
*_"Then we can attack in all directions."_*
ico what general said that?
@@danielcunningham648 The french general Marie-Pierre Koenig during the battle of Bir Hakeim in 1942.
@@danielcunningham648 Zivojin Misic
@valoxy it was actually Colonel Chesty Puller (USMC)
And you realized you are fucked in every possible holes!
Napoleon was so good at fighting wars that the only way to defeat him is by NOT attacking him.
He not god war only he is father modern Law that we still use till now it called "Napolean CODEX"
Haiti defeated Napoleon 😂😂🇭🇹🇭🇹
That's what the Russian did and in Road to Leipzig
@You Fat dont cry pls, we arent kids
@You Fat are u crying more? Take it, for u🧻
"If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
And Hercules envied Jhonny sins, and that man DID exist.
Alexander envied/looked up to Cyrus
@@jordanplays-transitandgame1690no he didnt. He just respected him But it was no where near as having a barbarian as his idol. His idol was achilles
- Bertrand Russell
Barbarian? @@Thomas.Nikolaidis10
“My glory is not that I won forty battles and dictated the law to kings… Waterloo wipes out the memory of all my victories… But what will be wiped out by nothing and will live forever is my Civil Code.”
-Napoleon
"Shit it's Napoleon RUN"
-Sun Tzu Art of War
If fighting is sure to result in victory then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that!
@@ΧΑΡΟΥΛΑΓΙΑΝΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ-ε5ν And I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do pal because he invented it
@@ΧΑΡΟΥΛΑΓΙΑΝΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ-ε5ν and i think he knows a little more about fighting than you doo paaal
Coz he invented it...and then he perfected it so that no living man can best him in the ring of honor
"When he approaches, we run, away"
-Sun Tzu
@@oneofakindconner7224 *warcry*
"to the left"
MAGGOTS
France Germany and great Britain : 75% of the list
*laughs* *in* *baguette,* *tea* *and* *bretzel*
Lol
usa mc donals
jordan gilles ?
@@H_man.. Really have internet in Mongolia?
@@planenjoyer ho DAMN lmao 😂😂
You missed the best: General Kenobi. But that's okay.
Obiwan Kenobi
Don't forget general griveous too
We ain’t gonna talk about general lando calrisen
Lmao
But what about General Organa?
Everyone: hating france
France: had the best General, made perfume brands, (and some other brands)
Stopped and defeated by the Bosnian Ahmed Jazzar, 1799. in Acre. This is where the fall and disintegration of Napoleon's dreams began
Should be noted that Alexander the Great is probably _the_ figure revered most by generals throughout history, from Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus (who named himself Magnus (“the Great”) in imitation of Alexander), to Napoleon who only invaded Egypt because Alexander had done so. He’s one of the very few who can claim to have never lost a single battle, he helped his father conquer much of southern Greece then conquered all of Persia by 32, and had his army not forced him to turn back he would have continued moving east through India.
Also, come on, Genghis Khan should be on here too, he transformed the Mongols into an army that went on to conquer much of Eurasia, in lightning speed thanks to their skill with bows and horses.
Pretty sure napoleon invaded Egypt to get to india
Pompey didn’t actually name himself ‘Magnus’, it was bestowed upon him by Sulla however it was a nod toward Pompey’s boyhood hero, Alexander the Great
Fun fact: Pompey’s enemies also gave him the sobriquet of ‘adulescentulus carnifex’ meaning ‘the teenage butcher’ as a result of his sheer ruthlessness in battle.
@@gunter6377 quite sure that there's a better route to India than marching throug a country that isn't even in the direction of India
@@gunter6377 bruh thats not true at all fym
You right this list is stupid asf, but Napoleon is number 1, he faces much harder opposition without the advantages Alexander had like 18’ spears that made the phalanx almost unbreakable
not surprised that alexander the great, julius caeser and Napoleon were both in the top 5
BOTH. NAMES THREE PEOPLE
@@ITryToLookLikeYou lol
Were all*
Very true
Suvorov fucked napoleon in 1812 and Romania and Moldova never lost to otomans ithen theiar army was 4/5times biger , this top is a shit
Damn that’s a lot of french, an entire generation of history memes done in vain
🇲🇫🇲🇫
Cottereau is a french youtube channel that might explain why
@@lezrocket9446 no, the French just have great generals. Look at Napoleon and his marshals, they basically took over Europe
🏳️🏳️🏳️ France when germans arrived in paris
Suvorov won 63 battles
*"Wise people learn when they can, fools learn when they must"*
-Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke Of Wellington 🇬🇧
" May the eyes of cowards never sleep"
~Khalid ibn al-Walid
As a muslim, I place Khalid ibn al walid first and place Alexander of Macedon 2nd, and then Napoleon, and then Baibars. These men changed the world we live in drastically by their wins in battles.
Edit: for those of you who think I placed him first because he is a better General, no! I placed him first because he changed the world drastically through his conquests ultimately commanded by prophet Muhammad (upon him be peace) sure, Napoleon changed the world we live in so much, But Napoleon lived only 200 years ago while Khalid lived 1400 years ago, so in terms of hiatory he changed that more.
@@user-yk4ji True bro
@@user-yk4ji Nah. Napoleon literally destroyed 5 great powers of the world while france's government was still in shambles.
Napoleon was so strong that the only way to defeat him was running away
@@user-yk4ji don’t be biased
It's not true. He said, "The eyes of cowards never sleep."
Damn Napoleon was so badass that the whole Europe nations united just to defeat him.
He was becoming annoying. The British were tired of throwing money at Europe to fight him
@@isziahs5951 The Brits was the cause of making the others fight right?
@@KanekiKen-by8rb in some cases. They gave lots of money to Hungary to fight Napoleon. Failed every time until they actually joined
@@isziahs5951 Especially the Austrians......I mean all they did was running until Napoleons army was exhausted.....
@@KanekiKen-by8rb it was smart though
1:55 they are literally same person
Black Frost lol
haha but u need to admit that Polish nobles from XVII century would look quite cool today with their haircuts :D
57 and 56
Stefan Wpierdol Czarniecki
Might be cousin or something
Hands down the French won all the fashion wars
When you realized general had more fashion than most fashion show nowadays
Patton is my favorite fashionista
That’s not very hard to believe.
like the 17-18th fashion and Napoleon wears a cape.
Dress like them then if you think it's so cool
@@spinetta0010 people will laught at you :(
"Alright guys, Napoleon is coming for us, so I got good plan. See if you can follow me on this. When he approaches, we run away."
"Sir, you're a genius."
Oversimplified
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well
@@idotso Woah,its a stumpy little manlet
Marshall Barack Obama
@@jamesandersonmuega9137 HEY. IM ACTUALY AVERAGE HEIGHT FOR THE TIME. HUHUHU
Napoleon Bonaparte fucking sweep the competition so hard.
Couldn’t defeat no2 though
@@definitelynotatroll246 ?XD
"Couldn't defeat no2" yeahhh let's take a look at the sides shall we?
Team 1: Napoleon
Team 2: the United Kingdom, the Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Spain, Kingdom of Naples, Kingdom of Sicily, Kingdom of Sardinia, Dutch Republic, Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Portugal, Kingdom of Sweden.
you look like a clown right now KEKW
A simple man
He did defeat him, but the Prussians sealed his fate
@@luc4606 and you look like a salty Frenchman haha
Where's Genghis Khan?
He didn’t actually lead any campaigns. He was ruler, you can see his generals on the list though like subutai.
@@mamamia5668 I guess if nothing else, he was a genius for picking out good talent.
@@mamamia5668That’s not true, Temujin/Genghis Khan led campaigns. During Genghis’s own lifetime Muqali and Jebe were considered above Subodei.
@@archivesoffantasy5560 Those campaigns were not comparable to that of his generals
@@mamamia5668 Genghis led his own campaigns during his lifetime. He’s the one who united the mongol tribes, structured the army, invaded Jin China and crushed the Khwarazmians.
Napoleon and his 9 generals are ranked in top 100.
No wonder Napoleon has banished from Europe...
His generals were nothing special without him, Murat for example - great cavalry commander under Napoleon, but shit when commanding alone. Davout was the only one who deserve to be on this list. But the list itself is a joke, Douglas Haig n.11??? David Petraeus???
@ LOL and Jean Lannes ?
I'd say Louis-Nicolas Davout was second to Napoleon, maybe even better than him (at certain points) Napoleons marshals often did most to win the battle than Napoleon, they who were in the thick of fighting and responsible for tactical victories. But Napoleon was the brain, and they were the body, so Napoleon is superior. Davout proved himself at the twin battles of Jena-Auerstadt, it has been said: " At Jena, Napoleon won a battle he could not lose. At Auerstadt, Davout won a battle he could not win." Davout was a brilliant, cunning and stern disciplinarian, who led the Grande Armée III corps, in the most trying and difficult battles, succeeding at the greatest odds. So much, that Napoleon called the III corps "my X legion." A reference to Julius Caesars tenth legion, the most reliable unit of his army.
Napoleon is best général that world knew so Vive la République et vive la France 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵
正確でない北条時宗は含まれていませんモングル軍団を２回追い返した
そして世界で例のない一方的に勝利した日本海海戦の
東郷平八郎がない
The inaccurate one does include
Kamito tokuyasu there isno
HeihachiroTogo of the japan Sea
naval battle that caused the worlds
unilateralnebound by overturning the
Mongolian corps twice
It’s a testament to Napoleon’s capabilities that like a dozen of the other guys on this list were just his subordinate officers.
Unfortunately, this fact has been ignored by many.
Many historical personalities known to people as great military geniuses actually owe their reputation to their skilful commanders.
Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and some others rose thanks to the skills of their commanders.
In my eyes, the greatest military geniuses of history are as follows:
1.Khalid ibn Walid
2. Hannibal Barca
3.genghis khan
4. tamerlane
5. Julius Caesar.
@@ahmedsaidali1919 It’s to you to demonstrate your claim I fear..
@@ahmedsaidali1919 you probably skipped history class 💀...
@@jdbtabouret.218 ok
@@SirBojo4 I already said it was my opinion.
When you realise that the top two entries got a significant proportion of their wins against each other.
Yea
Hey no cross teaming
Mostly against each others scrubby teammates.
quit feeding kills bro
Well, they only actually fought each other once.
If that is your logic, might as well give Napoleon all of the victories of his Marshals as well.
Even I have to concede, it is fitting that Wellington and Napoleon hold the top 2 spots.
Rename “Most battles won by generals”
cmon bro give him another way how to show how great generals were, this isn't that bad
@@el_gabron Still not as accurate
@@el_gabron overall effect on the war maybe? I mean you can win 10 more battles than the other side and still lose the war like Vietnam
the overall effect on war doesn't necessarily indicate commanders' abilities. It might be casualties inflicted due to war with consideration of world's population at battles timeframe but still, this is better than what you have suggested.
@@thegreatnest3308 a battle can simply be 3 soldiers against an armada lol, that doesn’t always measure ability. How about tactics and strategy.
This video should be titled: "how to consider History as a game of Risk"
Since a lot have different or incomplete history making space for a lot of misleading so known *Facts* that may be wrong
It's good to remind that Alexander The Great has a Perfect KDA and 100% winrate, he just disconnected the server too early.
yea he forget his password
Same with Khalid ibn al walid
Mobile legends is life😂
Ik never lost 1 it's impressive tbh
As Alexander Suvorov
'A commander can't be judged by the count of victories but by their historical impact, implications and complications in victory'
fun fact: Khalid Ibn al-walid won 28 battles out of 28
@@stentbeefclench he still lost at Waterloo tho
@@gioojisba2758 he still won 56
@@stentbeefclench he still lost at Waterloo, which invalidated all his previous victories as it destroyed his empire.
alexander too
@@johnnyroyal6404 well no, he couldnt have an heir and so his empire died with him. He was still undefeated in battle.
In 1813: the European coalition finally realize the only way to beat Napoleon was to avoid him, targeting his generals instead.
But during the battle of Dresden, Austria ignored the plans and got humiliated even when Napoleon was out numbered.
They had over 100K numerical advantage and lost 4 times as many casualties. On numbers probably napoelons single greatest victory and that’s in a war he lost. If he had no horse shortages the coalition woulda been destroyed after Dresden
@@fredbarker9201 and imagine Davout in the battle of leipzig or waterloo
@@wilmerbesitan1200 the iron marshall if he was apart of waterloo france would of won before the prussians even came to the field and won the day, davout was the best marshall he had with talent and leadership sure ney has massive balls for telling the troops who killed him via firing squad when to fire instead of their officer but davout is just a great general
@@wilmerbesitan1200 doubt it would change much if Davout was at Leipzig France was surrounded by many armies
Austria, the country who surrendered 178 340 times to France.
Napoleon battles won: 56
Napoleon height: 5’6”
Man really hated those short jokes huh
L'Aigle dont be a debbie downer
@L'Aigle It Was British Propaganda..
@@y0urs03pic yeah
He was taller than Nelson.
@L'Aigle don't be homophobic
I'm shocked that Genghis khan is not on the list
Yeah😮
I was wondering about that too
He's in another video, though batu Khan of Mongolia empire is there with fifteen battles
Me too
“If you want something done well, do it yourself”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
💪
That's a my style. Prefer to get things done well
When we want, we can, when we can we must
Did he want the invasion of Russia to be done well?
@@ssrmy1782 Yep he wanted it to be done well
Measuring generals by the number of battles they won is a bit like measuring authors by the number of pages they've written.
yeah I mean like if you have an army with like 50k troops and then you win against an army with 2k troops you dont have to be a good commander I mean even I could win this war
not even all of them are generals
How are we supposed to rank them then ?
@@alexism.7441 by how hard were the battles or what odds they had to win.
@@maximilianheiss5684 Not really. Numbers don't equal victory, The 300 is a perfect example. The Persians weren't amateurs either, it's all about who you are against.
Half of Napoleon wins are basically Austria’s pain
You’re not even wrong. I mean it may not be 50% but off the top of my head I can think of 24 battles he won against Austria. 17 of them within a year 1796-1797. Then Marengo Ulm Austerlitz Eckmuhl Regensburg Wagram and Znaim take it up to 24. And that’s before the sixth coalition when you made Schwarzenburg- an austrian commander- run away many times. So I’d say nearly half are vs the Austrian Empire
And then an Austrian painter borns
@@theprobe9752 Lmao
Wide austrian painter did revenge and conquered France whithin one month
@@hamidezzebda9067 france occupied part of germany after that
Fun fact: 95 (scipio) defeated 15 (hannibal)
Wait so The greatest general to enter is 8 won battles?
Bro I would be no 1 for winning 284 matches in total war
But how many generals died during all that time?
Battles, not skirmishes. Battles can last from 1 day too like 1 year. Or even a battle can be a campaign. Or a battle can be multiple skirmish’s into one. The battle has to happen at the same time and in a great affect. Like the African campaign was mostly skirmish but patton and Rommel won lots of skirmishes. But the battle of the bulge lasted like a month with heavy fighting constantly. The battle of verdun lasted like 1-2 years, I don’t remember the exact date
Hell there are wars with almost no battles but loads of skirmishes.
@@mrshovelbottom7475 like the quick soccer war
Good... Now try win it with no radar, map or AI assistance with perspective of your troop... Main reason to do this is because almost all general in this list didnt fly...
Imagine have all these generals in one room and just have them talk strategy
Edit: this kinda exploded glad to see everyone’s opinions
@@cojz you are so funny
They’ve beat 10 battalions with only one unit every single time
Napoleon would still find a way to come up with the smartest plan, and command immeadieate respect from others.
You never know
@@cojz you're so funny im dying right now 😐
I'm dead now 😐😐😐😐
“If you want something done right do it yourself” - Napoleon (It’s an actual quote of his)
v@@AK-47ISTHEWAY A man can hold a 7v1 for only so long
Nah man OJ Simpson actually said that, not napoleon
What happened in 1812?
"From the sublime to the ridiculous. It's just one step"
Have a guess who said that...
@@tom_demarco No,Napoleon said that.
George being 100th is a crime
Victory is not equal to another victory, just as failure is not equal to other failure.
Who are said that ?
Winston Churchill
@@duckeatsbread5644 Thanks
@@HIP-wv8nu Me, Ansuz. This is not a quote. Odin inspired me. ;)
@@duckeatsbread5644 Yes, yes, Santa Claus