500 Greatest Generals in History: 200-101

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This video shows the 200th to 101st best military commanders by battles won, according to Wikipedia.

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:
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These old generals looking so cool in my eyes

Swagtorian
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"John French - ... United Kingdom"
Okay, I had a smile ahah
But I am glad to see Jeanne!!

joelpasjojo
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I feel like win-loss recording would be even more telling.

doookkk
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2:33 : John French - United Kingdom
*confused baguette noise*

flouy
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I did not expect Genghis Khan to be the 147th great general! His name is inferior to that of many unfamiliar commanders.
This list has one problem. The magnitude and importance of wars have not been taken into account.

armins
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France is so good at war, that even a French girl outranked many generals. 2:50

jormungandr
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History has seen many fearless races like Mongolian, French, Turkish, Russian and so on.Respect All

platon
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The only woman in these lists, Joan of Arc.

LuckyK
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"Olds are just for the objects, but the legend you carry never be old as long as you carry it carefully"

randomuserguy
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This is why you are one of my top 10 favourite channels

micahistory
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2:54 Idriss Déby (President of Chad)
The 7 battles he won... were fought by the French against Sudan...

BruneSixtine
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French Generals during WW1 looks so cool

striker
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People: Wow, I wish we had generals like this today
Idriss Déby: Am I a joke to you?

Edgeperor
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Number of victories alone is not the parameter to define the greatness of a general

microburst
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La France pèse tellement dans le game... fière d'être français...🇫🇷

onontiogoa
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2:46 "Jeanne, au secours !" Seuls les Français peuvent comprendre x).

PawPatrolTheLionGuardFan
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*France :* Just aim and shoot, it's simple ..
*Other nations :* Try to win France🇫🇷

_NoName
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3:23 "so i died before i was born" sounds like share my story title

ConsciousApostle
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the generals of this top: 6/7/8 wins
Bonaparte: 56 wins and 2 defeats

e.bayles
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France is always present with practically 30%, 40% haha

MichelOM