List of military commanders
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Antiquity
- Julius Caesar (Roman military leader and dictator)
- Pompey (Roman general)
- Marius (Roman general)
- Augustus Caesar (The first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar)
- Hannibal Barca (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the Second Punic War)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon)
- Cyrus the Great (King of Persia who conquered Babylon)
- Arminius (War chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci)
- Attila the Hun (King of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God")
Middle Ages
- Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
- Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
- Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor]]
- King William I of England (Duke of Normandy, also known as William the Conqueror)
- General Belisarius (Byzantine general during the reign of Justinian I)
- Narses (Another great general in service of Justinian I)
- George Maniaces (11th century Byzantine general)
- Richard I of England (King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, known for his participation in the Third Crusade)
- Saladin (Leader of the Muslims, known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the crusaders' hand)
- Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
- Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
- Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of Catholic Church)
- El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
- Tamerlane (Mongolian conqueror)
- King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen
Renaissance
- Hernan Cortes (Spanish conqueror)
- Ann Nzinga Mbande (Warrior Queen of the Mbundu people; kept Portugal at bay)
Great Empires
- Gustav II Adolf
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)
- Jean Baptiste Bessieres
- Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
- Joachim Murat
- Louis Nicolas Davout
- Louis Alexandre Berthier
- Michel Ney
- Jean Lannes
- Auguste Marmont
- Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
- Nicolas Oudinot
- Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
- Guillaume Brune
- Jean Baptiste Jourdan
- [[Andr� Mass�na]]
- Louis Gabriel Suchet
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
- George Washington
Early Modern Times
- Simon Bolivar
- P.G.T. Beauregard
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S. Grant
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Pancho Villa
- Horatio Kitchener
- Douglas Haig (WWI UK)
- Ferdinand Foch (WWI France)
- Erich Ludendorff (WWI Germany)
- Paul von Hindenburg (WWI Germany)
Mechanized Warfare
- Harold Alexander (WWII UK)
- Claude Auchinleck (WWII UK)
- Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US)
- William Gott (WWII UK)
- Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany)
- Field Marshal Gustav Mannerheim (WWII Finland)
- Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
- Leslie Morshead (Australia, WW II)
- George Patton (WWII US)
- "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine)
- Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany)
- Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany)
- Erich von Mainstein (WWII Germany)
- Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans)
- Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans)
- William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US)
- Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
- Georgi Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)
Early Space-Age Warfare
- Norman Schwarzkopf (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)
See also
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_military_commanders" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_commanders, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
