Some of these men held a line for four years; others crossed a continent and never lost a battle. Ancient generals sit alongside people who ran wars by telephone.
1Napoleon BonaparteFought some sixty battles and reshaped European law and borders between them.1000pts
2Winston ChurchillTook office in May 1940 with Britain alone and turned refusal to negotiate into national policy.794pts
3Horatio NelsonBroke the Franco-Spanish line at Trafalgar and ended the threat of invasion.741pts
4Franklin D. RooseveltThe only US president elected four times, who ran the American war effort from a wheelchair.600pts
5Queen Elizabeth IRallied her troops at Tilbury with the Spanish Armada in the Channel.529pts
6Duke of WellingtonBeat Napoleon at Waterloo after grinding down French armies across Spain and Portugal.529pts
7BoudicaLed the Iceni revolt that burned Roman London to the ground.448pts
8George WashingtonHeld a ragged Continental Army together for eight years against the world's strongest navy.448pts
9Genghis KhanBuilt the largest contiguous land empire in history from a fractured steppe.448pts
10Julius CaesarConquered Gaul, wrote the account himself, and made his own commentaries a Latin set text.448pts
11Alexander the GreatTook the Macedonian army from Greece to the Indus without losing a major battle.448pts
12Charles de GaulleBroadcast from London in 1940 to declare that France had lost a battle, not the war.353pts
13Dwight D. EisenhowerSupreme Allied Commander who planned and launched the Normandy landings.240pts
14Hannibal BarcaMarched elephants over the Alps and beat Rome at Cannae with a smaller army.240pts
15Simón BolívarFreed six South American countries from Spanish rule in a fifteen-year campaign.240pts
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Fifteen names, and one of them ran his war from a basement in Whitehall while another commanded in the field for eight years: https://youpick.best/articles/washington-vs-lincoln-ranked https://youpick.best/articles/winston-churchill-ranked-many-ways
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