100 Greatest Generals in History

This video shows the 100 generals that have won the most battles in history (according to Wikipedia).
To make that video, I created a query that searches every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the general that won the battle.

Methodology:
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

[michaelchristidis]

A great Commander is not Judged by the count of his victories but of how he anchieved them and how important they were

[christopherf]

The fact that more than a fourth of the top 20 was just Napoleon and his marshals is just funny.

[svessien]

Hannibals victory at Cannae and Caesars victories at Alesia and Carrhae were incredible feats.

[freddyfazballstheultimate]

“I have defeated the Austrians by simply marching” -Nepoleon Bonaparte

[alialghazi]

“I am average height for the time” Napoleon Bonaparte

[kasanyaultimate]

Honorable mention:
“When I was sixteen I won a great victory”
“I felt in that moment I would live to be hundred”
“Now I know I shall not see thirty”
- The Leper King (Baldwin IV)

[PresidentAutumn]

“My enemies are many, my equals are none…” Napoleon Total War

[marcobinolirao]

''23 battles won, 23 stabbed''

-Julius Caesar

[fangeltim]

This video should be titled "Top 100 Greatest Generals In History By Battles Won According To Wikipedia"

[General.]

“Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself”

-Napoleon Bonaparte

[coenris]

As a Dutch man, I am proud to see that our tiny nation had one of the greatest military leaders in history, Maurice of Nassau. He was such a capable commander on the battlefield and won a lot of battles against the Spanish forces. Spain at that time was one of the most powerful nations on the globe. His victories over the Spanish eventually leads to the independence of the Netherlands from the Spanish occupation in 1648.

[barricade]

France:
This isn't even my final form.

[justintimbersaw]

Most of Napoleon's gang are here. Most of his Marshals.

[s.p.q.r]

Scipio should be in the top 10 for the sole fact of never losing a battle in his career and for having beaten one of the best generals of antiquity

[hakon]

Forgot Flavius Belisarius, won 16 battles most of them with forces less than half of the enemy.

[shelv]

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”
-Napoleon Bonaparte

[IDunno-yopq]

This just goes to show how underrated Maurice of Nassau was

[thecitizenoftheinternet]

You forgot to mention three more russian generals: December, January and February

[kingpenguin]

"Soldiers generally win battles generals get credit for them.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

[jeanluccaaguiar]

"Why is Waterloo so important?"
Duke Wellington Vs Napoléon