Introduction: Military leadership
The ancient world. Cyrus the Great : founder of the Achaemenid Persian empire
Alexander the Great : Macedonian conqueror of Western Asia
Chandragupta : creator of the Mauryan empire in India
Shi Huangdi : first emperor of China
Hannibal : daring Carthaginian general who challenged the might of Rome
Julius Caesar : conqueror of Gaul and dictator
Augustus : the first emperor of Rome
Trajan : Roman emperor who expanded the imperial domains to their greatest extent
Belisarius : Byzantine general who conquered Italy and North Africa
The medieval world. Charlemagne : leader of the Franks and first Holy Roman empire
Otto the Great : German Holy Roman emperor who defeated the Magyars
William the Conqueror : Norman invader of England
Saladin : Muslim victor over the Crusaders
Frederick Barbarossa : German Holy Roman emperor who died on crusade
Chingiz Khan : fearsome Mongol leader who created the largest empire in Europe
Timur : creator of a great central Asian empire
Edward I : King of England who conquered Wales and campaigned in Scotland
Robert Bruce : Scottish king who defeated the English
Jan ¿ưi¿ka : Czech general who never lost a battle
J©Łnos Hunyadi : Hungarian national hero who defeated the Turks
The age of empires and revolution. Hernando Cort©♭s : Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro : destroyer of the Inca empire
Sultan Selim I : supreme Ottoman leader who vanquished the Mamluks of Egypt
S©ơleyman the Magnificent : supreme Ottoman sultan who waged the Italian wars
Babur : Maghal conqueror of northern India
Akbar : builder of the Mughal empire
Toyotomi Hideyoshi : great unifier of Japan
Shah Abbas I : Safavid ruler tho built Iran into a great power
Gustavus Adolphus : great Swedish commander and king during the Thirty Years' War
Turenne : able French marshal in the age of Louis XIV
Oliver Cromwell : victorious general in the British civil wars
Jan Sobieski : Polish king who triumphed over the Turks at Vienna
Peter the Great :Russian tsar who defeated the Swedes in the great northern war
Duke of Marlborough : English victor of the Battle of Blenheim
Frederick the Great : King of Prussia who defeated the Austrians
Nader Shah : Iranian king and great 18-th century warrior
Qianlong Emperor : expansionist ruler of the Qing dynasty
George Washington : inspiring rebel commander and first American president
Napolean : Emperor of France and conqueror of much of Europe
Horatio Nelson : British naval hero against France
Duke of Wellington : British victor over Napolean
The modern age. Shaka Zulu : leader who forged a new force in southern Africa
Sim©đn Bol©Ưvar : hero of the Latin American Wars of Independence
Giuseppe Garibaldi : flamboyant Nationalist general in the Wars of Italian Unification
Moltke the Elder : key Prussian general in the Wars of German unification
Ulysses S. Grant : victorious Union general in the American Civil War
Robert E. Lee : masterful Confederate commander of the army of northern Virginia
Menelik : Ethiopian ruler who repulsed the Italian invasion
Garnet Wolseley : key general of British imperialism
Admiral Togo : Japanese commander who destroyed the Russian fleet
Marshal Foch : French general and commander of Allied Forces in World War I
Erich Ludendorff : leading German general of World War I
Mustafa Kemal : great Turkish Nationalist leader
Erich von Manstein : ablest of Hitler's generals
Dwight D. Eisenhower : supreme Allied commander during World War II
Georgy Zhukov : greatest Soviet general of World War II
Admiral Nimitz L successful commander of American naval forces against Japan
Vo Nguyen Giap : North Vietamese general who defeated the French and Americans.
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