500 Greatest Generals in History: 516-401

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.

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:

[ofamily]

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

[jacobloke]

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

[thomasturner]

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

[xuanzongoftang]

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

[micahistory]

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

[janhalvorundlien]

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

[senorlaerteslozanocorrales]

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

[Sr_Robert_Nehireta]

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.

[HeulGaming]

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

[micahistory]

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

[scoutrelic]

2:41 "Crazy Horse" great name

[ahsanal-khalidi]

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

[redamehdihassan]

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

[ПовелительНалоговойИмперии]

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..."

[krajeskus]

Johannes Blaskowitz was born in 1883 not in 1833. 👍

[andreabarberis]

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

[micahistory]

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

[phenom]

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

[dead_eye]

"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

[saraixchicken]

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