Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 19th of March 2019 to The Sounding Line.
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The following video, by YouTube creator Cottereau, reveals which generals have won the most battles throughout history. The video follows a previous one, also by Cottereau, which shows the location of every one of nearly 12,000 battles referenced on Wikipedia since 2,500 BC.
Cottereau describes the methodology as follows:
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
Limitations: Missing data. You probably noticed that Europe concentrates the majority of battles. Possible explanations include the fact that Wikipedia is used more in Europe, the ban of Wikipedia in China or Turkey, or the lack of documentation of military records in some countries. But still, Wikipedia remains one of the most comprehensive sources available.
The top five most victorious generals throughout history have been: Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Julius Caesar, and Alexander the Great.
It’s worth noting that the list doesn’t factor in whether generals also lost many battles.
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So this list ignore the military generals and campaigns of the largest empire known to history which is the mongol empire.
Mongol Empire wasn’t the largest empire, but I agree in that their accomplishments should be acknowledged, to a degree. However the mongols didn’t conquer civilization like other European empires, the just took land with hardly any centralization.
I believe that its considered the largest contiguous empire in history, though not the largest
This is a conversation about generals and their battles. Keep it in the topic. No matter how hard you wanna deny the Mongol Conquest, your favorite general didn’t achieve more than what Subude did on the battlefield. If you wanna talk about leaders, kings, and politicians who ruled big civilizations, you’re more than welcome to do it on the right topic.
Not the largest in terms of landmass
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Exactly, his entire life, he never lost a battle.