List of famous military commanders

Antiquity

• Julius Caesar (Roman military leader and dictator)
• Pompey (Roman general)
• Marius (Roman general)
• Augustus Caesar (The first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar)
• Hannibal Barca (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the Second Punic War)
• Alexander the Great (King of Macedon)
• Cyrus the Great (King of Persia who conquered Babylon)
• Arminius (War chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci)
• Attila the Hun (King of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God")

Middle Ages

• Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
• Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
• Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor]]
• King William I of England (Duke of Normandy, also known as William the Conqueror)
• General Belisarius (Byzantine general during the reign of Justinian I)
• Narses (Another great general in service of Justinian I)
• George Maniaces (11th century Byzantine general)
• Richard I of England (King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, known for his participation in the Third Crusade)
• Saladin (Leader of the Muslims, known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the crusaders' hand)
• Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
• Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
• Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
• Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of Catholic Church)
• El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
• Tamerlane (Mongolian conqueror)
• King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen

Renaissance

• Hernan Cortes (Spanish conqueror)
• Ann Nzinga Mbande (Warrior Queen of the Mbundu people; kept Portugal at bay)

Great Empires

• Gustav II Adolf
• Charles XII of Sweden
• Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)
  • Jean Baptiste Bessieres
  • Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
  • Joachim Murat
  • Louis Nicolas Davout
  • Louis Alexandre Berthier
  • Michel Ney
  • Jean Lannes
  • Auguste Marmont
  • Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
  • Nicolas Oudinot
  • Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
  • Guillaume Brune
  • Jean Baptiste Jourdan
  • André Masséna
  • Louis Gabriel Suchet
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
• Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
• George Washington

Early Modern Times

• Simon Bolivar
• P.G.T. Beauregard
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Pancho Villa
• Horatio Kitchener
• Douglas Haig (WWI UK)
• Ferdinand Foch (WWI France)
• Erich Ludendorff (WWI Germany)
• Paul von Hindenburg (WWI Germany)

Mechanized Warfare

• Harold Alexander (WWII UK)
• Claude Auchinleck (WWII UK)
• Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US)
• William Gott (WWII UK)
• Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany)
• Douglas MacArthur (WWII and Korea, US)
• Field Marshal Gustav Mannerheim (WWII Finland)
• Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
• Leslie Morshead (WW II Australia)
• Chester Nimitz (WWII US Navy)
• George Patton (WWII US)
• "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine)
• Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany)
• Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany)
• Erich von Mainstein (WWII Germany)
• Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans)
• Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans)
• William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US)
• Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
• Georgi Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)

Early Space-Age Warfare

• Norman Schwarzkopf (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)

See also

• List of British Field Marshals
• List of German Field Marshals
• List of Swedish Field Marshals

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