500 Greatest Generals in History: 516-401

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  • čas přidán 30. 05. 2019
  • I created a query that looks at every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the military commander who won the battle.
    This video shows the 516th to 401st military commanders that won the most battles.
    List of battles won by general: docs.google.com/document/d/1N...
    Rules
    • Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article
    Methodology:
    I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:
    1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles
    2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean
    3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries :
    4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states:

Komentáře • 813

  • @thomasturner6980
    @thomasturner6980 Před 5 lety +258

    Clickbait, I was promised 500 top generals but I got 516

  • @ofamily8180
    @ofamily8180 Před 5 lety +443

    Is there any point in ranking them 400-516 if they all won 4 battles?

    • @adolfstalin2363
      @adolfstalin2363 Před 5 lety +68

      Importances of the wars are different.

    • @thathistoryiscoolguy
      @thathistoryiscoolguy Před 5 lety +38

      It's because 517th probably won 3

    • @krunchykarim
      @krunchykarim Před 4 lety +12

      @@adolfstalin2363 That's very subjective. But nonetheless, I kind of expected some to have won 6-8.

    • @klutzyblubber9877
      @klutzyblubber9877 Před 4 lety +7

      It's probably the number of battles won vs how much battles they lost.

    • @kamilszadkowski8864
      @kamilszadkowski8864 Před 4 lety +8

      A lot of them most likely won more than 4. Jan Sobieski for example definitely won a couple more than that but English Wikipedia doesn't have articles about those battles. This whole list is flawed.

  • @jacobloke204
    @jacobloke204 Před 5 lety +76

    Napoleon lll:"I've won 4 battles"
    Otto Von Bismark:"You heard of chislehurst prison"

  • @reinatr4848
    @reinatr4848 Před 5 lety +156

    4 B A T T L E S

  • @HeulGaming
    @HeulGaming Před 5 lety +20

    I love your series
    Im french and i love what you do

  • @xuanzongoftang7856
    @xuanzongoftang7856 Před 3 lety +16

    Han xin: i probably win 4 battles but i never lose single one

  • @gkspain1
    @gkspain1 Před 5 lety +2

    Very nice video, thanks for sharing, have subscribed, all the best Garry.

  • @_xpawix_hdvideomapper7838

    Good video!

  • @Gunth_Chramn
    @Gunth_Chramn Před 5 lety +11

    Bon boulot, encore.

  • @redamehdihassan1113
    @redamehdihassan1113 Před 4 lety +4

    good greeting . Thank you very much for this historic military time. With the utmost thanks and respect.

  • @jonnywoche5937
    @jonnywoche5937 Před 5 lety +3

    Ayyy you're back

  • @blotas1904
    @blotas1904 Před 5 lety +4

    how do you do theses videos? (I already checked the description)

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory Před 5 lety +34

    Man, I love this series, I am so glad you made it

  • @scoutrelic1537
    @scoutrelic1537 Před 5 lety +10

    2:41 "Crazy Horse" great name

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory Před 5 lety +9

    Thanks for going through all that work to find out who this generals were. It has been something I had always wondered about and now I finally know

  • @kokak6017
    @kokak6017 Před 5 lety +3

    What software you use bro

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory Před 5 lety +14

    This was definitely one of the best series ever made on CZcams great job!

  • @phenom5164
    @phenom5164 Před 2 lety +2

    Is there any chance that this list will be updated in the future ? Considering these russian and ukrainian dudes fighting as well as others

  • @user-nx2ig5ri2g
    @user-nx2ig5ri2g Před 4 lety +1

    hello,how did you statistical the battles won of the every ?

  • @janhalvorundlien2831
    @janhalvorundlien2831 Před 5 lety +56

    All of them had four battles won then why are we watching this video 🤦‍♂️

    • @chriskelly9361
      @chriskelly9361 Před 4 lety +5

      It's more about the names than the little number below them...

  • @krajeskus1574
    @krajeskus1574 Před 5 lety +27

    Johannes Blaskowitz was born in 1883 not in 1833. 👍

  • @oveeeeeeer
    @oveeeeeeer Před 3 lety +8

    2:07 *Arthur MacArthur*
    Me : *what* ?

    • @AgerioBoss
      @AgerioBoss Před 3 lety +4

      He's the father of douglas macarthur

  • @user-cf8zd7rs1g
    @user-cf8zd7rs1g Před 5 lety +13

    Napoleonic Wars. Patriotic War 1812:
    Barclay De Tolly - "We must destroy Napoleon with a powerful blow and throw him back to Paris!".
    Kutuzov - "Or maybe just retreat and burn Moscow?"
    Barclay De Tolly - "WHAT?! The Russian mind can't understand..."

  • @adriancampos8640
    @adriancampos8640 Před 3 lety +1

    Does this also count sieges or just field battles? Because if it also counts sieges then there is a lot of information missing.

  • @DDd-vg9gt
    @DDd-vg9gt Před 2 lety +1

    Hey! What program do you use to make a video?

  • @mrkbgld
    @mrkbgld Před rokem

    Nice

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory Před 5 lety +2

    I learned so much from this video

  • @generalflaviusaetius1997
    @generalflaviusaetius1997 Před 5 lety +8

    CZcams is at its finest when we get content like this.
    All if these are great Generals but moment of silence for Parmenion. 😔

    • @nekhlioudovbolkonsky2901
      @nekhlioudovbolkonsky2901 Před 5 lety +1

      Why was he special? I read a book about a guy named parmenion who was a son a Macedonian and a foreign who wasn't accepted by his community... He was crazy about a girl named Derae and he fought against some enemies? Is it him?

    • @maesmydog6691
      @maesmydog6691 Před 4 lety +1

      @@nekhlioudovbolkonsky2901 I know the book you are talking about. Its a historical novel but not very accurate (he never rose up in Sparta for example). But anyway: Parmenion was a Macedonian general and basically the 2nd in command of Philipp II. and his son, Alexander the Great.

  • @BiggusDickusthe15th
    @BiggusDickusthe15th Před 5 lety +1

    Can you please make more every year videos

  • @statue1128
    @statue1128 Před 5 lety

    Will you upload only one video of 5 video?

  • @ja_shurka
    @ja_shurka Před 4 lety +5

    3:16
    Robert Downey Jr. after 5 years, he reincarnated

  • @user-tq2cx6cr1q
    @user-tq2cx6cr1q Před 4 lety +1

    Where did you find these high quality pictures?

  • @senorlaerteslozanocorrales2812

    Wrong at 2:47 top 453 the image is a image of cesare Borgia not a image of Gonzalo de Córdoba ✌

    • @JuanPablo-vw7ko
      @JuanPablo-vw7ko Před 4 lety

      He tried to put the picture of some recognizable person...

  • @andreabarberis8779
    @andreabarberis8779 Před 5 lety +16

    At minute 2:44 there is "Gonzalo de Cordoba", but that is a picture of Cesare Borgia

  • @ahsanal-khalidi1614
    @ahsanal-khalidi1614 Před 4 lety +24

    Ali Ibn Abi Talib is one of the bravest and greatest Muslim leaders, he also was both scientist and poet

  • @PerryboytheDisneyfan
    @PerryboytheDisneyfan Před 2 lety

    What music did you use

  • @youssefbouraha7026
    @youssefbouraha7026 Před 4 lety

    There is Anyone knows what tool is used in the video to display these data ??

  • @shinsenshogun900
    @shinsenshogun900 Před 5 lety +1

    Do the Top Generals per Wins of Each registered Country according to Wikipedia, makes sense to rank each nationalities

  • @dragospopovici7337
    @dragospopovici7337 Před 5 lety +3

    In the other videos I have seen some generals that I know but in this video the only general I have heard about is Michael the brave and probably because he is from my country lol

  • @rick7856
    @rick7856 Před 4 lety +3

    Those *numbers of wins* sometimes not as important as those generals' roles in the *decisive battles* that they've won.

  • @firstaidsack
    @firstaidsack Před 5 lety +1

    Did you count Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Hashiba Hideyoshi as 2 different persons?

  • @dooxford
    @dooxford Před 9 měsíci +1

    What is the music in this video?

  • @matid9687
    @matid9687 Před 4 lety +1

    Hey, how about Don José de San Martín, why isn't on any of your 5 tops?

  • @gabrielfrancisco3055
    @gabrielfrancisco3055 Před 5 lety +13

    Where is Duke of Caxias?

  • @ayasofyakedisi6289
    @ayasofyakedisi6289 Před 3 lety +19

    Özbek han, Turgut reis , Enver paşa , Kazım Karabekir 👍

    • @3yleex472
      @3yleex472 Před 2 lety

      @@alipasa631 kankam fevzi paşa değilde çoğu osmanlı padişahı yok o kadar savaş kazanıp başarı elde etmelerine rağmen

  • @philipp8574
    @philipp8574 Před 5 lety +5

    3:30 Thats not Johannes Blaskowitz. It's Friedrich Fromm

  • @discoviking4255
    @discoviking4255 Před 5 lety +3

    Is there any Norwegian generals on the list. Theres many Norwegian born generals who has won many battles.

    • @mattep74
      @mattep74 Před 4 lety

      Not many. There are a ton of Swedish generals missing. Stenbock that won at Helsingborg only have two independent wins. Rhensköld spent most of his time as a wing commander for Charles xii and only have one win.

  • @edjmtown
    @edjmtown Před 5 lety

    THANK YOU FOR THIS LIST! HOW ABOUT SOME MORE LISTS LIKE THIS?!

  • @hellionus
    @hellionus Před 4 lety +3

    420: Ah. La Hire wishes to kill something.

  • @WestTNConfed
    @WestTNConfed Před 4 lety

    Whats the music in this called?

  • @furkand1088
    @furkand1088 Před 5 lety +118

    🇹🇷Kazım Karabekir🇹🇷

    • @suren2313
      @suren2313 Před 5 lety

      Furkan Muhammet Doğan karaçoban

    • @alpertuyan4047
      @alpertuyan4047 Před 5 lety +2

      Bu kanal tarafsız değil yalnız Atatürk ü ilk 100 de 61.mi ne yapmıştı

    • @Nashkelov
      @Nashkelov Před 5 lety +5

      Alper Tuyan Bu kanal muharebe niteliklerine göre değil kazanılan muharebelere göre sıralıyor.öbür türlü İleride olmayı hakkeden bir sürü komutan var

    • @Aysd2332
      @Aysd2332 Před 5 lety

      @@alpertuyan4047 kardesim muharebe sayıları baz alınarak listeler hazırlanıyor. Yoksa Cengiz Handa tarihin en büyük 2 3 kumandanından biri ama kazandığı savaş sayısı birkac tane(tabi çoğu da büyük savaşlar oyle kücük savaşlar falan da degil adam gerçekten büyük komutan)

    • @DoofyGilmore1299
      @DoofyGilmore1299 Před 5 lety +10

      @@alpertuyan4047 lan mal mısın 10 savaş kazandı ve normal bir şekilde koyuldu yerine

  • @onlopine
    @onlopine Před 5 lety

    Do another video where they are categorized by the number of people they've killed.

  • @erdemosx
    @erdemosx Před 5 lety +13

    1:02 İşte geliyor kahraman enver paşa.2:27 turgut reis. 3:37 Altın orda hanı jani beg . 4:20 özbek kağanı 5:08 kazım karabekir . Turk

    • @user-qp8bq1eh3m
      @user-qp8bq1eh3m Před 3 lety +3

      Ali bin Abi Talib 2:46
      😎💪❤

    • @mercedessevdals9212
      @mercedessevdals9212 Před 3 lety +6

      @@user-qp8bq1eh3m ♿♿♿🦍🦍🦍🦍

    • @3yleex472
      @3yleex472 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mercedessevdals9212 gücünü vergiden alan reçel teyip ersoğan ülkeyi katara sattı sattı sattı

    • @mercedessevdals9212
      @mercedessevdals9212 Před 2 lety +1

      @@3yleex472 satmadık karşim cehapenin gündem değiştirme çabaları

    • @alexsander856
      @alexsander856 Před 2 lety

      @@user-qp8bq1eh3m 5:06 Kazım karabekir 🇹🇷💪😎

  • @RepublikBaden
    @RepublikBaden Před 5 měsíci

    Honorable mentions

  • @noahb4109
    @noahb4109 Před 2 lety +1

    What is music please ! 🙏🏻🥺
    I find it too dark ! 😉😏

  • @user-hq2nv1zz6k
    @user-hq2nv1zz6k Před 5 lety +5

    Enver Pasha

  • @matiluyon6797
    @matiluyon6797 Před 3 lety +3

    where is Jose de San Martin
    that Argentina, Chile and Peru became independent and also won 4 battles
    aunasi good video

  • @NehiretaJugadordeAoE2
    @NehiretaJugadordeAoE2 Před 3 měsíci +1

    It is good that South America has representation among these generals, maybe missing one from the War of the Pacific between Chile and Perú/Bolivia (1879-1883), i think General Baquedano from Chile won 4 battles:
    - Battle of Los Ángeles
    - Battle of Tacna
    - Battle of Chorrillos
    - Battle of Miraflores
    There´s also the Battle of Arica, but that one probably doesn't count because Baquedano did not command directly and put colonel Pedro Lagos on charge.
    I´ll guess Baquedano was not here because he only became a general after his victory on Los Ángeles, kinda unfortunate.

  • @quake1262
    @quake1262 Před 9 měsíci

    What Music is this ?

  • @xuanzongoftang7856
    @xuanzongoftang7856 Před 3 lety +4

    1:48
    Han Xin 💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥

  • @haison865
    @haison865 Před 2 lety

    Name of music please🙏

  • @saraixchicken
    @saraixchicken Před 4 lety +39

    I’m so confused and I have a genuine question. If they’ve had only 4 battles what makes them the greatest? I really wanna know

    • @omnesviaeroman
      @omnesviaeroman Před 3 lety +5

      sarai There are 5 videos, watch it and u will know.

    • @jonnywoche609
      @jonnywoche609 Před 3 lety +3

      @@omnesviaeroman still I think these videos are really misleading

    • @palamera4860
      @palamera4860 Před 3 lety +15

      @@jonnywoche609 maybe to you seems easy but winning 4 battles and no dying is medium good

    • @DanishKhan-vu5je
      @DanishKhan-vu5je Před 3 lety +8

      difficulty and the importance of the battle

    • @memelover1084
      @memelover1084 Před 3 lety +2

      Those strategy of fighting make them great

  • @Sun-AiKhan
    @Sun-AiKhan Před 3 lety +4

    Akbar, Abul Ghazi,Enver Pasha,Dragut,Crazy Horse,Chief Joseph,Jani Beg,Kuchum khan Uzbek and Kazım Karabekir is great Turkic generals

    • @danielvilla2332
      @danielvilla2332 Před 2 lety +1

      Crazy Horse he was the chief of the Oglala Sioux, an indigenous tribe of North America

    • @Sun-AiKhan
      @Sun-AiKhan Před 2 lety

      @@danielvilla2332 indians hablogroup q

  • @turkceceviri6409
    @turkceceviri6409 Před 5 lety +33

    two generals armenians love the most. enver pasha and kazım karabekir.

  • @rome2433
    @rome2433 Před 3 lety +1

    I was very surprised when I saw mark antony only won 4 battles!

  • @jabloko992
    @jabloko992 Před 4 lety +1

    Where's Belisarius from any of your lists? He won a lot more than 4 battles:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius

  • @xxanime_loverxx8044
    @xxanime_loverxx8044 Před 5 lety +1

    Alright, nice video, but where are Georgian (next to Turkey) kings who have won so many fights?
    I am dissapointed ;(

  • @sandrosilva1798
    @sandrosilva1798 Před 2 lety

    I'd like to ask you, where's Ahmose, the first Pharaoh of 18th dynasty?

  • @dead_eye2311
    @dead_eye2311 Před 3 lety +3

    "4 battles won" in the video 1:24
    Generalissimo Emilio Aguinaldo has a military record of winning all the battles he led/fought in the Philippine Revolution and when the americans came, he only lost one battle because of the superiority of the technology of the enemy in the battle.
    Win-Lose ratio of
    •25 Victories(if all major and minor battles combined, 15 if major battles only)
    • 1 Defeat

  • @gabrielcauzzi8547
    @gabrielcauzzi8547 Před 4 lety

    Song?

  • @temporality_
    @temporality_ Před 4 lety +4

    War games on mobile phones: 4:05

  • @user-fd7re8zp5z
    @user-fd7re8zp5z Před 3 lety +5

    2:46 Ali Ibn Abi Talib ❤

    • @scientificmeow
      @scientificmeow Před 3 lety +2

      لقد صورو عليا رضي الله عنه 💚💚

  • @thenotifier572
    @thenotifier572 Před 2 lety

    Soundtrack, pls?

  • @kingfureur4374
    @kingfureur4374 Před 5 lety +52

    Il y a trop de generaux français c'est abusé ! A croire que de 1789-1815 c'était l'âge d'or de la France

    • @leroiarouf1142
      @leroiarouf1142 Před 5 lety +1

      Le 17eme siecle c mage dor de louix 14 on apelle cette époque l'ère de louis 14
      Après la chute de napoleon a verdun la france est devenu un pay de merde

    • @kingfureur4374
      @kingfureur4374 Před 5 lety +6

      @@leroiarouf1142
      Ok merci pour les infos , je suis pas d'accord avec toi , après la chute de l'Empire colonial français c'est devenu de la merde

    • @kingfureur4374
      @kingfureur4374 Před 5 lety +2

      @@leroiarouf1142
      Je sais pas si t'as remarqué mais tu vois dans la 2 ème partie des 500 meilleures généraux ?

    • @kingfureur4374
      @kingfureur4374 Před 5 lety +2

      @@leroiarouf1142
      Auguste Marmont ressemble beaucoup au youtuber CemCem 😂😂

    • @jeremiemarion3966
      @jeremiemarion3966 Před 5 lety +4

      Je pense que la France est toujours dans un âge d'or potentiel, sauf qu'aujourd'hui ce n'est plus les dirigeants seuls ou alors la combinaison de dirigeants et de la population qui pourraient en faire la grandeur mais la population en a la capacité et elle doit gagner un droit qui n'a jamais existé depuis 2200 ans à savoir la démocratie la vraie, DU PEUPLE PAR LE PEUPLE POUR LE PEUPLE les GJ l'ont montré il n'y a pas de démocratie il n'y a plus que le pouvoir d'un seul quand celui ci est un minable on va pas très loin...

  • @munchnerkindl7480
    @munchnerkindl7480 Před 3 lety +1

    3:28
    Johannes Blaskowitz became 115 years old.
    Interesting.🤔

  • @traco-1198
    @traco-1198 Před 5 lety +9

    Da proxima vc pode colocar lideres do Brasil

  • @L.P.1987
    @L.P.1987 Před 5 lety +1

    En 2:45, la pintura que representa a Gonzalo de Córdoba parece César Borgia.

  • @pierremacquet543
    @pierremacquet543 Před 4 lety +4

    26/ 100 franchement on n'a rien à envier des autres pays niveaux histoire

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory Před 5 lety +3

    I am so glad I now know who the top 500 generals in history were. It's extremely interesting

    • @jonnywoche5937
      @jonnywoche5937 Před 5 lety +1

      Me too

    • @micahistory
      @micahistory Před 5 lety +2

      @@jonnywoche5937 great

    • @jonnywoche5937
      @jonnywoche5937 Před 5 lety +1

      @@micahistory it'll be great if they go on

    • @micahistory
      @micahistory Před 5 lety +1

      @@jonnywoche5937 i hope so. Btw, would you be interested in checking out micahistory 2?

  • @alan4640
    @alan4640 Před 4 lety +1

    What’s the name of this music?

  • @hyruleslink2235
    @hyruleslink2235 Před 4 lety

    Music??

  • @JedForge
    @JedForge Před 3 lety +4

    Late to the party here, but after viewing the entire series, I have to ask what the tiebreaker criteria was?

  • @chrislemuelpaz4645
    @chrislemuelpaz4645 Před 4 lety +3

    Beginner
    Amateur
    Pro
    Allstar
    World Class
    Hall Of Fame
    And The Hardest Difficulty...
    *FOUR*

  • @atlasbeko1799
    @atlasbeko1799 Před 2 lety +1

    Almnzor : does I won 4 great battle and 50 small battle but I never lose a one single battle

  • @ffarkasm
    @ffarkasm Před 2 lety +1

    2:50 that hurts.

  • @moscoweagle2846
    @moscoweagle2846 Před 5 lety +1

    You forgot János Pálffy

  • @amrouche5184
    @amrouche5184 Před 4 lety +9

    Dragut and el amir abd elkader car from Algeria 🇩🇿 🇩🇿 🇩🇿

  • @cisicisi4842
    @cisicisi4842 Před 4 lety

    Why Gonzalo de Cordoba has as profile pic Cesare Borgia?

  • @arturs2436
    @arturs2436 Před 4 lety +5

    A very nice list.Of what i saw, when it comes to Gonzalo de Cordoba(around 2:45)...the image in question is an painting from Cesare/Cesar Borgia

  • @martijn3514
    @martijn3514 Před 4 lety +1

    3:33 johannes blaskowitz was born in 1883 not 1833 wich made him 115 years old...

  • @not-bie
    @not-bie Před 2 lety +1

    Johannes Blaskowitz was born in 1883 not 1833 but he died in 1948

  • @runierdelannoy5474
    @runierdelannoy5474 Před 5 lety +8

    Mexican : French can't fight without revolution
    Napoleon III : Hold my baguette !

  • @rumbleice9467
    @rumbleice9467 Před 5 lety

    Name of the song?

  • @rickenbacker660
    @rickenbacker660 Před rokem +1

    0:24 Hashiba Hideyoshi is Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Same person.

  • @mazarikhan6079
    @mazarikhan6079 Před 4 lety +1

    What about Khalid ibn Walid ( sword of Lord)???

  • @babona2010
    @babona2010 Před 4 lety

    Я ничего не понял. А где Наполеон?
    I do not understand anything. Where is Napoleon Bonapard?

  • @jawad.k.r
    @jawad.k.r Před 5 lety +3

    نتمنى إضافة اللغة العربية لهذا الأسماء حتى نستفاد

  • @mihaiapostol4351
    @mihaiapostol4351 Před 5 lety +9

    2:23 Wallachian General, good thing you haven't forgotten Romanian power

  • @kosovoisalbania2410
    @kosovoisalbania2410 Před 5 lety +4

    #1 Karl von Bülow
    #2 Ottavio Piccolomini
    #3 Napoléon III

    • @bozkurt1441
      @bozkurt1441 Před 4 lety +1

      Sen napolyonu akka da yenen Cezzar Ahmed Paşayı nereden bileceksin

  • @stanisawzokiewski707
    @stanisawzokiewski707 Před 3 lety +2

    Silly to see Napoleon III and Alexander I as "Greatest Generals"