500 Greatest Generals in History: 400-301

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 400th to 301st 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:

[aliyldrm]

Sultan Suleiman 4 Battles Won???? Suleiman conquered only 350 Castles in 16th Century Europa during his Campaigns 1420-1466. Only Conquest's of Belgrdad 1521, Rhodes 1522, Baghdad 1534 and the Conquest of Graz 1529 makes 4 together

Dipnot Books:
Joseph Hammer, Ottoman History 10 volumes,
Nicolae Jorga, Osmanlı imparatorluğu Tarihi 5 cilt (History of The Ottoman Empire 5 volumes)
Wilhelm Zinkeissen, Osmanlı imparatorluğu 7 cilt
Harold Lamb, Suleiman The Magnificent

[ardaaslan]

Guys this info based on Wikipedia. Thus, Suleiman the magnificent and Mehmet the conqueror are not accurate. Mehmed led more than 12 campaigns which he won as he became Sultan in a young age.

[bigsmokethegreat]

States conquered by Fatih Sultan Mehmet:
-Karamanids
-The Byzantine Empire
-Trabzon Empire
-Serbian Kingdom
-Kingdom of Bosnia
-Albania
-Isfendiyarids
-Another little Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Slavic states.
How could Fatih Sultan Mehmet have won only 4 battles?Sultan Suleiman fought even more war than Mehmed

[hasansabbah]

SULEİMAN THE GREAT ONLY 4 BATTLE WON EXCUSE ME WTF

[micahistory]

I am just so thankful to you for making this list. I have always wondered who the bets generals in history were

[emirhanhakkoymaz]

There are many good generals in history. But we have to interpret these generals not by the number of battles won, but by the size of the war they won.

[LambertCadoc]

For all the turkish guys who complain about the rank of suleiman and mehmet ii, there is just the battles that have a wikipedia pag. If you want your generals to be more known you just have to create pages about his battles

[micahistory]

Man, these videos are so informative and amazing. Keep up the great work!

[micahistory]

I have rarely ever been so excited for a video on my life

[kailanthecartographer]

Mehmed II and Suleiman I definetely won more battles than that

[ezra]

I have won more battles than these guys in battlefield 5

[nucainchicksaw]

Nice video!
A video about the best generals in the last centry would be interesting.

[kaskaiskaap]

Beyler biz Türklerin başarılı olması bazılarının zoruna gidiyor

[lanavita]

Marking the ones I know
Peter the Great (1672-1725)🇷🇺
Suleiman I (1494-1566)🇹🇷
Richard Neville (1428-1471)🇬🇧

[redamehdihassan]

good greeting . Many thanks for this military historical encyclopedia. With the utmost thanks and respect.

[finifens]

Make it like this: Battles participated/battles won

[danny]

This is so wrong!

1. Stefan cel Mare had 36 fights in his life and he lost 2 (he wrote a book.. HE said this NOT that shitty Wikipedia)
First battle that he lost was the siege of Cetatea Chilia (1462)
The second was the battle of Valea Alba (1476)


2. Suleiman had 13 campaigns, who the fuck knows how many battles took place in those 13 campaigns??? could be 15, 20, 10000.. but not 4.

[sheikhlouncenyalsoudaiscon]

Spy : I have good news and bad news ;
Heraclius : What's the good news ??
Spy: our troops are more than enemy's troops ;
Heraclius : And what's the bad news ??
Spy: KHALID IBN AL-WALID

[johnwilmarkconda]

The beat @2:16 was so Hard, my computer shut down a few times while on that part lol

[doookkk]

How can you put some general with 4 won battles over another with 4 won battles too?!