Seventy-six years ago Polish soldiers under the command of General W?adys?aw Anders spilt their blood for a free Europe storming and capturing the German-occupied abbey on top of Monte Cassino, Italy.
"We are convinced that we must show our gratitude to Poles, especially to the heroic soldiers who fought 76 years ago at Monte Cassino," said Enzo Salera, the mayor of Cassino, adding "Thus the construction of the memorial to General Anders and 1,057 soldiers under his command who fell fighting for freedom, will help preserve the memory of their deeds for future generations."
Polish athlete Bogus?aw Mami?ski is one of the initiators of the construction of the monument and the organiser of the "Monte Cassino Run".
"We managed to convince the town authorities that the tourist tour route should start not at the car park by the cemetery of the Polish soldiers but by the memorial in the town itself," said Mr Mami?ski, adding that the monument will also be the first stop on an educational path that will guide tourists, when they arrive, through the most important Monte Cassino sites.
Golden letters forming the names of the fallen Polish soldiers will be engraved on a 19-metre-long black granite wall.
Stones brought from Poland will be placed on a surface of 144 square metres to symbolise young people, who fell in the battle of Monte Cassino.
Rank | Name | DOB | DOD | Nation | Greatest Achievement |
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1 | Temujin/Genghiz Khan | 1162 | 1227 | Mongol | Khwarezmian Empire, 1221 |
2 | Alexander III "the Great" | 356BC | 323BC | Macedon | Gaugamela, 331 BC |
3 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769 | 1821 | France | Ulm/Austerlitz, 1805 |
4 | Hannibal Barca | 247BC | 183BC | Carthage | Cannae, 216 BC |
5 | Julius Caesar | 100BC | 44BC | Rome | Alesia, 52 BC |
6 | Khalid ibn al-Walid | 584 | 642 | Arab/Rashidun Caliphate | Yarmouk, 636 |
7 | Subutai | 1175 | 1248 | Mongol | Legnica-Mohi, 1241 |
8 | Publius Cornelius Scipio "Scipio Africanus" | 236BC | 183BC | Rome | Ilipa, 206 BC |
9 | Frederick II "the Great" | 1712 | 1780 | Prussia | Leuthen, 1757 |
10 | Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus) | 1591 | 1632 | Sweden | Breitenfeld, 1631 |
11 | John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | 1650 | 1722 | Great Britain | Blenheim, 1704 |
12 | Belisarius | 505 | 565 | Byzantine | Dara, 530 |
13 | Jan Zizka | 1370 | 1424 | Bohemian/Hussite | Kutna Hora, 1421 |
14 | Philip II | 382BC | 336BC | Macedon | Chaeronea, 338 BC |
15 | Oda Nobunaga | 1534 | 1582 | Japan (Sengoku) | Nagashino, 1575 |
16 | Cyrus "the Great" | 590BC | 529BC | Persia (Achaemenid) | Thymbra, 546 BC |
17 | Alexander Suvorov | 1729 | 1800 | Russia | Rymnik, 1789 |
18 | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | 1769 | 1852 | Great Britain | Salamanca, 1812 |
19 | Han Xin (Han Hsin) | N/A | 196BC | China (Han Dynasty) | Jingxing, 206 BC |
20 | Timur (Tamerlane) | 1336 | 1405 | Turco-Mongol | Ankara, 1402 |
21 | Heraclius | 575 | 641 | Byzantine | Nineveh, 627 |
22 | Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne | 1611 | 1675 | France | Upper Rhine, 1674-1675 |
23 | Nader Shah | 1688 | 1747 | Persia (Afsharid) | Karnal, 1739 |
24 | Eugene of Savoy | 1663 | 1736 | Austria | Zenta, 1697 |
25 | Helmuth Bernhard von Moltke "Moltke the Elder" | 1800 | 1891 | Prussia | Sedan, 1870 |
26 | Chandragupta Maurya | 340BC | 298BC | India (Maurya) | Pataliputra, 322 BC |
27 | Tiglath-Pileser III | N/A | 727BC | Assyria | Babylonia, 745 BC |
28 | Toyotomi Hideyoshi | 1536 | 1598 | Japan (Sengoku) | Shizugatake, 1583 |
29 | Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba “El Gran Capitan” | 1453 | 1515 | Spain | Cerignola, 1503 |
30 | Maurice de Saxe, Count of Saxony | 1696 | 1750 | France | Fontenoy, 1745 |
31 | Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov | 1896 | 1973 | Russia/Soviet Union | Moscow, 1941 |
32 | Selim I | 1470 | 1520 | Ottoman | Marj Dabiq, 1517 |
33 | Shivaji Bhonsle (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj) | 1627 | 1680 | Marathas | Pratapgarh, 1659 |
34 | Sun Tzu | 544BC | 496BC | China (Spring & Autumn Period) | Art of War, written 490 BC (?) |
35 | Epaminondas | 418BC | 362BC | Thebes | Leuctra, 371 BC |
36 | Shaka | 1787 | 1828 | Zulu | Ghoxli Hill, 1818 |
37 | Robert Edward Lee | 1807 | 1870 | USA (Confederate) | Chancellorsville, 1863 |
38 | Erich von Manstein | 1887 | 1973 | German | 3rd Kharkov, 1943 |
39 | Babur (Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad) | 1483 | 1530 | Mughal | 1st Panipat, 1526 |
40 | Tran Hung Dao | 1228 | 1300 | Vietnam (Dai Viet) | Bach Dang, 1288 |
41 | Gaius Marius | 157BC | 86BC | Rome (Populares) | Vercellae, 101 BC |
42 | John III Sobieski | 1629 | 1696 | Poland-Lithuania | Vienna, 1683 |
43 | Guo Ziyi | 697 | 781 | China (Tang Dynasty) | Xiyuan, 765 |
44 | Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange | 1567 | 1625 | Dutch | Nieuwpoort, 1600 |
45 | Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Conde | 1621 | 1688 | France | Rocroi, 1643 |
46 | Thutmose III | N/A | 1479BC | Egypt (New Kingdom) | Megiddo, 1457 BC |
47 | Charles XII (Carolus Rex) | 1682 | 1718 | Sweden | Narva, 1701 |
48 | Bai Qi | N/A | 257BC | China (Warring States - Qin) | Changping, 257 BC |
49 | Heinz Guderian | 1880 | 1954 | Germany | Smolensk, 1941 |
50 | Nurhaci | 1559 | 1626 | Manchu | Sarhu, 1619 |
51 | Yue Fei | 1103 | 1142 | China (Song Dynasty) | Yancheng, 1140 |
52 | George Castriot “Skanderbeg” | 1405 | 1468 | Albania | 2nd Kruge, 1466-1467 |
53 | Stanislaw Koniecpolski | 1590 | 1646 | Poland-Lithuania | Ochmatow, 1644 |
54 | Lucius Cornelius Sulla | 138BC | 78BC | Rome (Optimates) | Orchomenus, 88 BC |
55 | Vo Nguyen Giap | 1911 | 2013 | Vietnam | Dien Bien Phu, 1954 |
56 | Winfield Scott | 1786 | 1866 | USA | Mexico City, 1847 |
57 | Bayinnaung Kyawhtin Nawrahta | 1516 | 1581 | Burma | Naungyo, 1538 |
58 | Ulysses S. Grant | 1822 | 1885 | USA (Union) | Vicksburg, 1863 |
59 | Stephen III “the Great” (Stefan cel Mare) | 1433 | 1504 | Moldavia | Vaslui, 1471 |
60 | Li Jing | 571 | 649 | China (Tang Dynasty) | Eastern Tujue, 630 |
61 | Baji Rao I | 1700 | 1740 | Marathas | Palkhed, 1728 |
62 | Louis Nicholas Davout | 1770 | 1823 | France | Auerstadt, 1806 |
63 | Simeon I "the Great" | 864 | 927 | Bulgaria | Achelous, 917 |
64 | Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck | 1870 | 1964 | Germany | Tanga, 1914 |
65 | Jebe "the Arrow" | N/A | 1223 | Mongol | Kalka River, 1223 |
66 | Charlemagne (Karolus Magnus) | 748 | 814 | Franks | Pavia, 773-774 |
67 | Alexander Vasilevsky | 1895 | 1977 | Russia/Soviet Union | Stalingrad, 1942 |
68 | Narses | 478 | 573 | Byzantine | Taginae, 552 |
69 | Li Shi-Min (Taizong Emperor) | 599 | 649 | China (Tang Dynasty) | Hulao, 621 |
70 | Aurelian (Lucius Domitius Aurelianus) | 214 | 275 | Rome | Emesa, 272 |
71 | Charles Martel | 688 | 741 | Franks | Tours, 732 |
72 | Takeda Shingen | 1521 | 1573 | Japan (Sengoku) | Mikatagahara, 1573 |
73 | Baibars | 1223 | 1277 | Egypt (Mamluk) | Ain Jalut, 1260 |
74 | Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma | 1545 | 1592 | Spain | Antwerp, 1584-1585 |
75 | Mehmed II “the Conqueror” | 1432 | 1481 | Ottoman | Constantinople, 1453 |
76 | Samudragupta | 335 | 375 | India (Gupta) | Southern Expedition, 360? |
77 | Xiang Yu | 232BC | 202BC | China (Qin Dynasty/Western Chu) | Julu, 207 BC |
78 | Constantine I “The Great” | 272 | 337 | Rome | Milvian Bridge, 312 |
79 | Sargon | N/A | 2279BC | Akkad | Uruk, 2290? BC |
80 | Edward I | 1239 | 1307 | England | Evesham, 1265 |
81 | George Washington | 1732 | 1799 | USA | Yorktown, 1781 |
82 | James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose | 1612 | 1650 | Scotland (Royalist) | Auldearn, 1645 |
83 | ‘Amr ibn al-‘As | 583 | 664 | Arab/Rashidun Caliphate | Heliopolis, 640 |
84 | Francois-Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg | 1628 | 1695 | France | Neerwinden, 1693 |
85 | Ban Chao (Pan Ch’ao) | 32 | 102 | China (Han Dynasty) | Invasion of the Kushans/Yuezhi, 90 |
86 | Raimondo Montecuccoli | 1609 | 1680 | Austria | St. Gotthard, 1664 |
87 | William I “the Conqueror” | 1027 | 1087 | Norman/England | Hastings, 1066 |
88 | Mustafa Kemal “Ataturk” | 1881 | 1938 | Turkey | Sakarya, 1923 |
89 | Claude Louis Hector de Villars | 1653 | 1734 | France | Denain, 1712 |
90 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890 | 1969 | USA | Normandy, 1944 |
91 | Lautaro | N/A | 1557 | Mapuche | Tucapel, 1553 |
92 | Nikephoros II Phokas | 912 | 969 | Byzantine | Aleppo, 962 |
93 | Oliver Cromwell | 1599 | 1658 | England (Parliamentarian) | Dunbar, 1650 |
94 | Cao Cao | 155 | 220 | China (Three Kingdoms-Cao Wei) | Guandu, 200 |
95 | Erwin Rommel | 1891 | 1944 | Germany | Gazala, 1942 |
96 | Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein | 1583 | 1634 | Bohemia/Austria | Wolgast, 1628 |
97 | Robert Clive “Clive of India” | 1723 | 1773 | Great Britain | Plassey, 1757 |
98 | Ranjit Singh | 1780 | 1839 | Sikh | Nowshera, 1823 |
99 | Moshe Dayan | 1915 | 1981 | Israeli | Six-Day War, 1967 |
100 | Mahmud of Ghazni | 971 | 1030 | Turco-Persian/Ghaznavid | Peshawar, 1002 |
101 | Basil II “Bulgar-Slayer” | 958 | 1025 | Byzantine | Kleidon, 1014 |
102 | Mao Zedong | 1893 | 1976 | China (Communist/PRC) | Long March, 1934-1935 |
103 | Trajan | 53 | 117 | Rome | Parthian Campaign, 115-117 |
104 | Suleiman I | 1494 | 1566 | Ottoman | Mohacs, 1526 |
105 | Robert Guiscard de Hauteville | 1015 | 1085 | Norman | Dyrrhachium, 1081 |
106 | Wanyan Aguda (Taizu of Jin) | 1068 | 1123 | Jurchen/China (Jin Dynasty) | Hubudabang, 1115 |
107 | William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim | 1891 | 1970 | Great Britain | Meiktila-Mandalay, 1945 |
108 | 1824 | 1863 | USA (Confederate) | Shenandoah Valley, 1862 | |
109 | Sher Shah Suri (Farid Khan) | 1486 | 1545 | Mughal/Afghan | Kannauj, 1540 |
110 | Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim | 1867 | 1951 | Finland | Winter War, 1939-1940 |
111 | Shapur I | N/A | 272 | Persian (Sasanian) | Edessa, 260 |
112 | Janos Hunyadi | 1406 | 1456 | Hungarian | Belgrade, 1456 |
113 | George S. Patton | 1885 | 1945 | USA | Ardennes, 1944 |
114 | Raja Raja Chola I | N/A | 1014 | Tamil (Chola Dynasty) | Anuradhapura, 993 |
115 | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | 1861 | 1936 | Great Britain | Megiddo, 1918 |
116 | Hernan Cortes | 1485 | 1547 | Spain | Tenochtitlan, 1521 |
117 | Pyrrhus | 319BC | 272BC | Epirus | Heraclea, 280 BC |
118 | Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor) | 1328 | 1398 | China (Ming Dynasty) | Lake Poyang, 1363 |
119 | Ahmad Shah Durrani (Ahmad Khan Abdali) | 1722 | 1772 | Afghanistan | Panipat III, 1761 |
120 | Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri (Alp Arslan) | 1029 | 1072 | Turks (Seljuks) | Manzikert, 1071 |
121 | Nguyen Hue (Quang Trung) | 1753 | 1792 | Vietnam | Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da, 1788-1789 |
122 | Henry V | 1387 | 1422 | England | Agincourt, 1415 |
123 | Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui | N/A | 1471 | Inca | Cuzco, 1433? |
124 | Leo III the Isaurian | 675 | 741 | Byzantine | Constantinople, 717-718 |
125 | Andre Massena | 1758 | 1817 | France | Zurich II, 1799 |
126 | Sun Bin | N/A | 316 BC | China (Warring States - Qi) | Maling, 342 BC |
127 | Philopoemen | 253BC | 183BC | Greece (Achaean League) | Mantinea, 207 BC |
128 | 1274 | 1329 | Scotland | Bannockburn, 1314 | |
129 | Huo Qubing | 140BC | 117BC | China (Han Dynasty) | Expedition to Lake Baikal, 119 BC |
130 | Sonni Ali (Ali Kolon) | N/A | 1492 | Songhai | Timbuktu, 1468 |
131 | Erich Ludendorff | 1865 | 1937 | Germany | Western Front, 1917 |
132 | Hamilcar Barca | 275BC | 228BC | Carthage | The Saw, 238 BC |
133 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | 1543 | 1616 | Japan (Sengoku) | Sekigahara, 1600 |
134 | Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar “El Cid” | 1043 | 1099 | Spain | Tebar, 1090 |
135 | Suppiluliuma I | N/A | 1322BC | Hittite | Great Syrian Campaign, 1340? BC |
136 | Pulakeshin II | 597 | 642 | India (Chalukyas) | Narmada River, 619 |
137 | Flavius Stilicho | 359 | 408 | Rome | Pollentia, 402 |
138 | Saladin | 1137 | 1193 | Egypt (Ayyubid)/Kurdish | Hattin, 1187 |
139 | Christiaan de Wet | 1854 | 1922 | Boer | Guerrilla Campaign, 1900-1902 |
140 | Yusuf ibn Tashfin | 1061 | 1106 | Morocco (Almoravids) | Sagrajas, 1086 |
141 | Murad IV | 1612 | 1640 | Ottoman | Baghdad, 1638 |
142 | Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban | 1633 | 1707 | France | Namur, 1692 |
143 | Edward, the “Black Prince” | 1330 | 1376 | England | Poitiers, 1356 |
144 | John Monash | 1865 | 1931 | Australia | St. Quentin, 1918 |
145 | Douglas MacArthur | 1880 | 1964 | USA | Inchon, 1950 |
146 | Giuseppe Garibaldi | 1807 | 1882 | Italy | Expedition of the Thousand, 1860 |
147 | 1654 | 1722 | China (Qing Dynasty) | Jao Modo, 1696 | |
148 | Ahuitzotl | N/A | 1502 | Aztec | Southern Expedition, 1494 |
149 | Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen | 1771 | 1847 | Austria | Aspern-Essling, 1809 |
150 | William Tecumseh Sherman | 1820 | 1891 | USA (Union) | March to the Sea, 1864 |
151 | Uesugi Kenshin | 1530 | 1578 | Japan (Sengoku) | Tedorigawa, 1577 |
152 | Lin Biao | 1907 | 1971 | China (Communist/PRC) | Pingjin Campaign, 1948-1949 |
153 | Hinmatoowyalahtqit “Chief Joseph” | 1840 | 1904 | Nez Perce | Nez Perce War, 1877 |
154 | Richard I “Lionheart” | 1157 | 1199 | England/Crusader | Arsuf, 1191 |
155 | Judar Pasha | N/A | 1606 | Morocco | Tondibi, 1591 |
156 | Ariel Sharon | 1928 | 2014 | Israel | Abu-Ageila, 1967 |
157 | Lucius Septimius Severus | 146 | 211 | Rome | Lugdunum, 197 |
158 | Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias | 1803 | 1880 | Brazil | War of the Triple Alliance, 1866-1870 |
159 | Wei Qing | N/A | 106BC | China (Han Dynasty) | Mobei, 117 BC |
160 | Chormagan | N/A | 1241 | Mongol | Invasions of Armenia and Georgia, 1238 |
161 | Ferdinand Foch | 1851 | 1929 | France | Hindenburg Line, 1918 |
162 | Abbas I “the Great” | 1571 | 1629 | Persia (Safavid Dynasty) | Urmia, 1604 |
163 | Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas | 595 | 674 | Arab/Rashidun Caliphate | al-Qadisiyyah, 636 |
164 | Minamoto no Yoshitsune | 1159 | 1189 | Japan (Kamakura Shogunate) | Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 |
165 | Konstantin Rokossovsky | 1896 | 1968 | Russia/Soviet Union | Operation Bagration, 1944 |
166 | Shihab ad-Din (Muhammad of Ghor) | 1149 | 1206 | Tajik/Ghurid Empire | Tarain II, 1192 |
167 | John I Tzimiskes | 925 | 976 | Byzantine | Dorostolon, 971 |
168 | Paul von Hindenburg | 1847 | 1934 | Germany | Tannenberg, 1914 |
169 | Rajendra Chola I | N/A | 1044 | Tamil (Chola Dynasty) | Southeast Asian Expedition, 1025 |
170 | Lennart Torstensson | 1603 | 1651 | Sweden | Jankau, 1645 |
171 | Taksin | N/A | 1782 | Siam | Ratchaburi, 1774 |
172 | Jose de San Martin | 1778 | 1850 | Argentina | Maipu, 1818` |
173 | Quintus Sertorius | 123BC | 72BC | Roman (Populares) | Baetis River, 80 BC |
174 | Kujula Kadphises | 4 BC | 80 | Kushan/Yuezhi | Invasion of Northern India, 40 |
175 | 1569 | 1630 | Spain | Breda, 1624-1625 | |
176 | George Catlett Marshall | 1880 | 1959 | USA | World War II, 1939-1945 |
177 | Akbar | 1542 | 1605 | Mughal | Chittorgarh, 1567-1568 |
178 | Gwanggaeto “the Great” | 378 | 413 | Korea (Goguryeo) | War with Later Yan, 400 |
179 | Modu (Maodun) Chanyu | 234BC | 174BC | Xiongnu | Baideng, 200 BC |
180 | Attila | 406 | 453 | Huns | Invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, 443-445 |
181 | Lucius Licinius Lucullus | 118BC | 56BC | Rome | Tigranocerta, 69 BC |
182 | Bertrand du Guesclin | 1320 | 1380 | France | Pontvallain, 1370 |
183 | Qi Jiguang | 1528 | 1588 | China (Ming Dynasty) | Fujian Province, 1562-1563 |
184 | Nathanael Greene | 1742 | 1786 | USA | Southern Campaign, 1780 |
185 | Sargon II | 765BC | 705BC | Assyria | Babylon, 710 BC |
186 | 1221 | 1263 | Russia (Novgorod) | Lake Peipus (“Battle on the Ice”), 1242 | |
187 | Parmenion | 400BC | 330BC | Macedon | Gaugamela, 331 BC |
188 | Walter Model | 1891 | 1945 | Germany | Operation Market-Garden, 1944 |
189 | Geronimo | 1829 | 1909 | Apache | The Reservation Breakout, 1885-1886 |
190 | Piye (Piankhi) | N/A | 714 BC | Kushite | Herakleopolis, 724 BC |
191 | Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov | 1853 | 1926 | Russia | Brusilov Offensive, 1916 |
192 | 358BC | 281BC | Macedon/Seleucid | Ipsus, 301 BC | |
193 | Zhou Yu | 175 | 210 | China (Three Kingdoms-Eastern Wu) | Red Cliff, 208 |
194 | Mihai Viteazu (Michael the Brave) | 1558 | 1601 | Wallachia/Romania | Selimbar, 1599 |
195 | Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell | 1883 | 1950 | Great Britain | Operation Compass, 1940 |
196 | Jan Karol Chodkiewicz | 1560 | 1621 | Poland-Lithuania | Kirchholm, 1605 |
197 | Flavius Aetius | 391 | 454 | Rome | Catalaunian Plains, 451 |
198 | Louis-Joseph de Montcalm | 1712 | 1759 | France | Ticonderoga, 1758 |
199 | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz | 1766 | 1858 | Austria | Novara, 1849 |
200 | Wang Jian | N/A | 223BC | China (Qin Dynasty) | Conquest of Chu, 224-223 BC |
201 | Eulji Mundeok | N/A | 620 | Korea (Goguryeo) | Salsu, 612 |
202 | Edward III | 1312 | 1377 | England | Crecy, 1346 |
203 | 1584 | 1630 | China (Ming Dynasty) | Ningyuan, 1626 | |
204 | Naresuan (Sanphet II) | 1556 | 1605 | Siam (Ayutthaya Kingdom) | Bueng Nong Sarai, 1593 |
205 | Prokop the Great | 1380 | 1434 | Bohemian/Hussite | Domazlice, 1431` |
206 | Mori Motonari | 1497 | 1571 | Japan (Sengoku) | Miyajima, 1555 |
207 | Su Dingfang | 591 | 667 | China (Tang Dynasty) | Irtysh River, 657 |
208 | Nathan Bedford Forrest | 1821 | 1876 | USA (Confederate) | Brice’s Cross Roads, 1864 |
209 | 1401 | 1466 | Italy/Mercenary (Milan) | Caravaggio, 1448 | |
210 | Quizquiz | N/A | 1534 | Inca | Quipaipan, 1532 |
211 | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery | 1887 | 1976 | Great Britain | El Alamein, 1942 |
212 | 1654 | 1722 | France | Villaviciosa, 1710 | |
213 | 849 | 899 | England | Edington, 878 | |
214 | Murong Ke | N/A | 367 | China (Former Yan Kingdom) | Defeat of Ran Min, 352 |
215 | Ivan Stepanovich Konev | 1897 | 1973 | Russia/Soviet Union | Kursk, 1943 |
216 | Charles X Gustav (Carl Gustav) | 1622 | 1660 | Sweden | Warsaw, 1656 |
217 | Ramesses II (Ozymandias) | 1303BC | 1213BC | Egypt (New Kingdom | Qadesh, 1274 BC |
218 | Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher | 1742 | 1819 | Prussia | Katzbach, 1813 |
219 | Radomir Putnik | 1847 | 1917 | Serbia | Kolubara, 1914 |
220 | Koos de la Rey | 1847 | 1914 | Boer | Magersfontein, 1899 |
221 | 268BC | 208BC | Rome | Syracuse, 214-212 BC | |
222 | Sir Thomas Fairfax | 1612 | 1671 | England (Parliamentarian) | Naseby, 1645 |
223 | Henry IV of France (Henry of Navarre) | 1553 | 1610 | France (Huguenot) | Ivry, 1590 |
224 | 1048 | 1118 | Byzantine | Philomelion, 1117 | |
225 | Ibrahim Pasha | 1789 | 1848 | Egypt (Mamluk/Ottoman) | Konya, 1832 |
226 | 1412 | 1431 | France | Orleans, 1429 | |
227 | Gerd von Rundstedt | 1875 | 1953 | Germany | Kiev, 1941 |
228 | Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba “Iron Duke” | 1507 | 1582 | Spain | Alcantara, 1580 |
229 | Wolter von Plettenberg | 1450 | 1535 | Livonian Order (Teutonic Knights) | Siritsa River, 1501 |
230 | James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick | 1670 | 1734 | France/English Exile | Almanza, 1707 |
231 | Mihira Bhoja I | 836 | 885 | India (Gurjara Pratihara) | Annexation of Bihar, 876? |
232 | Ana Nzinga | 1583 | 1663 | Angola (Ndongo/Matamba) | Kombi, 1647 |
233 | Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus | 185BC | 129BC | Rome | Carthage, 149-146 BC |
234 | Mahpiya Luta (Red Cloud) | 1822 | 1909 | Lakota | Red Cloud’s War, 1866-1868 |
235 | Arthur Currie | 1875 | 1933 | Canada | Hill 70 (part of 3rd Ypres), 1917 |
236 | Mukhali | 1170 | 1223 | Mongol | Conquest of Jin, 1217-1222 |
237 | Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal | 1810 | 1900 | Prussia | Koniggratz/Sadowa, 1866 |
238 | Hyder Ali | 1721 | 1782 | Mysore | First Anglo-Mysore War, 1767-1768 |
239 | Eumenes | 362 BC | 316 BC | Greek/Macedon | Hellespont, 321 BC |
240 | Hizabruddin (Zafar Khan) | N/A | 1299 | India (Delhi Sultanate) | Sivistan, 1298 |
241 | Ivan III Vasilyevich “the Great” | 1440 | 1505 | Russia/Moscow | Conquest of Novgorod, 1471 |
242 | 685 BC | 627 BC | Assyria | Conquest of Elam, 640-639 BC | |
243 | Philip Henry Sheridan | 1831 | 1888 | USA (Union) | Cedar Creek, 1864 |
244 | David IV “the Builder” | 1073 | 1125 | Georgia | Didgori, 1121 |
245 | Michael Collins | 1890 | 1922 | Ireland | Irish War of Independence, 1919-1922 |
246 | Ashikaga Takauji | 1305 | 1358 | Japan (Ashikaga Shogunate) | Minatogawa, 1336 |
247 | Pyotr Rumyantsev | 1725 | 1796 | Russia | Kagul, 1770 |
248 | Dorgon (Prince Rui) | 1612 | 1650 | Manchu/China (Qing Dynasty) | Shanhai Pass, 1644 |
249 | Tomoyuki Yamashita | 1885 | 1946 | Japan | Malaya & Singapore, 1941-1942` |
250 | Tariq ibn Ziyad | 670 | 720 | Arab/Umayyad Caliphate | Guadalete, 711 |
251 | Antigonus I Monophthalmus | 382BC | 301BC | Macedon | Gabiene, 316 BC |
252 | Murad II | 1404 | 1451 | Ottoman | Varna, 1444 |
253 | Anawrahta Minsaw | 1014 | 1077 | Burma (Pagan Empire) | Thaton, 1057 |
254 | Jozef Klemens Pilsudski | 1867 | 1935 | Poland | Warsaw, 1920 |
255 | Simon Bolivar “El Libertador” | 1783 | 1830 | Venezuela/New Granada | Boyaca, 1819 |
256 | Hermann (Arminius) | 18BC | 21 | Cherusci (Germanic) | Teutoberg Forest, 9 |
257 | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | 1833 | 1913 | Great Britain | Tell El Kebir, 1882 |
258 | Askia Mohammad I (Muhammad Ture) | 1443 | 1538 | Songhai | Anfao, 1493 |
259 | Francisco Pizarro | 1471 | 1541 | Spain | Cajamarca, 1532 |
260 | Zynoviy Bohdan Khmelnytsky | 1595 | 1657 | Ukrainian/Cossack | Batih, 1652 |
261 | Yelu Dashi (Yeh-Lu Ta-Shih) | 1087 | 1143 | Khitan/China (Qara Khitai) | Qatwan, 1141 |
262 | Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke | 1883 | 1963 | Great Britain | World War II, 1939-1945 |
263 | Jean-de-Dieu Soult | 1769 | 1851 | France | Ocana, 1809 |
264 | Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (El Djezairi) | 1808 | 1883 | Algeria | Macta, 1835 |
265 | Ma Yuan | 14BC | 49 | China (Han Dynasty) | Expeditions against the Qiang, 34-35 |
266 | Albert Kesselring | 1885 | 1960 | Germany | Monte Cassino & Anzio, 1944 |
267 | Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly | 1559 | 1632 | Austria/Bavaria | White Mountain, 1620 |
268 | Sun Li-jen | 1900 | 1990 | China (Nationalist/Kuomintang) | Ledo Road, 1943-1944 |
269 | Gaius Claudius Nero | N/A | 200BC | Rome | Metaurus River, 207 BC |
270 | Abu Aamir al-Mansur (Almanzor) | 938 | 1002 | Arab (Caliphate of Cordoba) | Cervera, 1000 |
271 | Eduard Totleben | 1818 | 1884 | Russia | Sevastopol, 1854-1855 |
272 | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | 1832 | 1914 | Great Britain | Kandahar, 1880 |
273 | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus “Pompey” | 106BC | 48BC | Rome (Optimates) | Lycus, 66 BC |
274 | Lachit Borpukan | 1622 | 1671 | India (Ahom Kingdom) | Saraighat, 1671 |
275 | Leonidas I | N/A | 480BC | Sparta | Thermopylae, 480 BC |
276 | Matthew B. Ridgway | 1895 | 1993 | USA | Chinese Spring Offensive, 1951 |
277 | Mithridates VI | 135BC | 63BC | Pontus | Zela, 67 BC |
278 | Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad (Aurangzeb) | 1618 | 1707 | Mughal | Samugarh, 1658 |
279 | August von Mackensen | 1849 | 1945 | Germany | Gorlice-Tarnow, 1915 |
280 | Shimazu Yoshihisa | 1533 | 1611 | Japan (Sengoku) | Mimigawa, 1578 |
281 | Tecumseh | 1769 | 1813 | Shawnee | Tecumseh’s War, 1811-1813 |
282 | Krum | N/A | 814 | Bulgaria | Pliska, 811 |
283 | Peng Dehuai | 1898 | 1974 | China (Communist/PRC) | Second Phase Campaign, 1950 |
284 | 1655 | 1707 | Austria | Slankamen, 1691 | |
285 | Manius Curius Dentatus | N/A | 270BC | Rome | Beneventum, 275 BC |
286 | Nabopolassar | 658BC | 605BC | Babylon | Nineveh, 612 BC |
287 | Cnut (Canute the Great) | 995 | 1035 | Denmark/England | Conquest of England, 1015-1016 |
288 | Bairam Khan | 1501 | 1561 | Mughal | Panipat II, 1556 |
289 | 1443 | 1490 | Hungary | Vienna, 1485 | |
290 | Sima Yan (Emperor Wu) | 236 | 290 | China (Jin Dynasty) | Conquest of Eastern Wu, 279-280 |
291 | 1769 | 1809 | France | Tudela, 1808 | |
292 | Ernst Gideon von Laudon | 1717 | 1790 | Austria | Kunersdorf, 1759 |
293 | Omar Bradley | 1893 | 1981 | USA | Rhineland, 1945 |
294 | Vercingetorix | 82BC | 46BC | Arverni (Gaul) | Gergovia, 53 BC |
295 | Marcus Aurelius | 121 | 180 | Rome | Defeat of the Marcomanni, 172 |
296 | Yitzhak Rabin | 1922 | 1995 | Israel | Six-Day War, 1967 |
297 | Pyotr Bagration | 1765 | 1812 | Russia/Georgia | Schongrabern, 1805 |
298 | Ismail I | 1487 | 1524 | Persia (Safavid) | Sarur, 1500 |
299 | Meng Tian | N/A | 210 BC | China (Qin Dynasty) | Creation of the Great Wall, 215 BC |
300 | John J. Pershing | 1860 | 1948 | USA | Meuse-Argonne, 1918 |
Name | DOB | DOD | Nation | Greatest Achievement |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thutmose I | N/A | 1493BC | Egypt (New Kingdom) | Conquest of Kush, 1502? BC |
Muwatalli II | N/A | 1272BC | Hittite | Kadesh, 1274 BC |
David | 1040BC | 970BC | Israel | Defeat of the Philistines, 1020? BC |
Nebuchadnezzar II | 634BC | 562BC | Babylon | Carchemish, 605 BC |
Harpagus | N/A | 540BC | Persia (Achaemenid) | Conquest of Asia Minor, 542 BC |
Darius I | 550BC | 486BC | Persia (Achaemenid) | Conquest of the Indus Valley, 516 BC |
440 BC | 381 BC | China (Warring States - Chu) | Wuxi, written 390 BC? | |
Dionysius I | 432 BC | 367 BC | Syracuse | Siege of Syracuse, 397-396 BC |
Xenophon | 430 BC | 354 BC | Athens/Mercenary | Anabasis of the Ten Thousand, 401-399 BC |
Lysimachus | 360 BC | 281 BC | Macedon | Ipsus, 301 BC |
Lian Po | N/A | 260 BC | China (Warring States – Zhao) | Changping Stalemate, 262-260 BC |
Li Mu | N/A | 229 BC | China (Warring States – Zhao) | Fei, 233 BC |
Quintus Fabius Maximus “Cunctator” | 288 BC | 203 BC | Rome | Fabian Strategy, 217-216 BC |
Antiochus III | 241 BC | 187 BC | Seleucid | Panium, 198 BC |
Lucius Aemilius Paullus “Macedonicus” | 229 BC | 160 BC | Rome | Pydna, 168 BC |
Spartacus | 111 BC | 71 BC | Rome (Slave) | Defeat of the Consular Armies, 72 BC |
Surena | 84 BC | 52 BC | Parthia | Carrhae, 53 BC |
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo | N/A | 67 | Rome | Conquest of Armenia, 58-59 |
Kanishka “the Great” | N/A | 150 | Kushan | Conquest of the Upper Ganges, 120? |
181 | 234 | China (Three Kingdoms) | Southern Campaign, 225 | |
Ardashir I “the Unifier” | 180 | 242 | Persia (Sasanian) | Hormozdgan, 224 |
Septimius Udaynath (Odaenathus) | N/A | 267 | Palmyra | Zeugma, 260 |
Probus | 232 | 282 | Rome | Tarsus, 276 |
Ran Min (Shi Min) | N/A | 352 | China (Ran Wei State) | Xiangguo, 351 |
Tuoba Gui (Daowu Emperor) | 371 | 409 | China (Northern Wei Dynasty) | Canhe Slope, 395 |
Totila (Baduila) | N/A | 552 | Goth | Mucellium, 542 |
Uqbah ibn Nafi | 622 | 683 | Arab (Rashidun Caliphate) | Conquest of the Maghreb, 670-682 |
Constantine V | 718 | 775 | Byzantine | Marcellae, 756 |
Harun al-Rashid | 763 | 809 | Arab (Abbasid Caliphate) | Abbasid Invasion of Asia Minor, 806 |
Abaoji (Taizu Emperor) | 872 | 926 | Khitan/China (Liao Dynasty) | Mongolian Expedition, 924-925 |
Otto I “the Great” | 912 | 973 | German/Holy Roman Empire | Lechfeld, 955 |
Zhao Kuangyin (Taizu Emperor) | 927 | 976 | China (Song Dynasty) | Gaoping, 954 |
Brian Boruma mac Cennetig | 941 | 1014 | Ireland | Glenmama, 999 |
Tughril Beg | 990 | 1063 | Turks (Seljuks) | Dandanaqan, 1040 |
Vladimir II Monomakh | 1053 | 1125 | Russia (Kievan Rus) | Sula, 1107 |
Nur ad-Din (Nureddin) Zengi | 1118 | 1174 | Turks (Seljuks) | Second Crusade, 1147-1149 |
Taira no Kiyomori | 1118 | 1181 | Japan (Heian Period) | Heiji Rebellion, 1160 |
Frederick I “Barbarossa” | 1122 | 1190 | Germany/Holy Roman Empire | Iconium, 1190 |
Prithviraj III Chauhan | 1166 | 1192 | India (Chahamana) | Tarain I, 1190 |
Bayan of the Baarin | 1236 | 1295 | Mongol | Conquest of the Song, 1274-1276 |
Stefan Uros IV Dusan | 1308 | 1355 | Serbia | Velbazhd, 1330 |
John Hawkwood | 1320 | 1394 | England/Mercenary | Castagnaro, 1387 |
Bayezid I | 1360 | 1403 | Ottoman | Nicopolis, 1396 |
Tokhtamysh | N/A | 1406 | Mongol/Golden Horde | Moscow, 1382 |
Zhu Di (Yongle Emperor) | 1360 | 1424 | China (Ming Dynasty) | Jingnan Campaign, 1399-1402 |
Bartolomeo Colleoni | 1400 | 1475 | Italy/Mercenary (Venice) | Bosco Marengo, 1447 |
1442 | 1483 | England (Yorkist) | Tewkesbury, 1471 | |
Huayna Capac (Wayna Qhapaq) | 1464 | 1527 | Inca | Conquest of Ecuador, 1500? |
Krishnadevaraya | 1471 | 1529 | India (Vijayanagara) | Raichur, 1520 |
Setthathirath (Xaysettha) | 1534 | 1571 | Laos (Lan Xang) | Burmese Invasion of Laos, 1565 |
William I, Prince of Orange (William the Silent) | 1533 | 1584 | Dutch | Leiden, 1574 |
Giorgio Basta, Count of Huszt | 1540 | 1607 | Austria | Miraslau, 1600 |
Man Singh I | 1550 | 1614 | Mughal | Medinipur, 1592 |
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar | 1604 | 1639 | German/Mercenary | Breisach, 1638 |
Johan Baner | 1596 | 1641 | Sweden | Wittstock, 1636 |
Stefan Czarniecki | 1599 | 1665 | Poland-Lithuania | Jaroslaw, 1656 |
Carl Gustav Wrangel | 1613 | 1676 | Sweden | Zusmarshausen, 1648 |
Pope | 1630 | 1688 | Pueblo | Pueblo Revolt, 1680 |
Menno, Baron van Coehoorn | 1641 | 1704 | Dutch | Namur, 1695 |
Nicolas Catinat | 1637 | 1712 | France | Staffarda, 1690 |
Chimaji Appa | 1707 | 1740 | Maratha | Vasai, 1739 |
Leopold Joseph von Daun | 1705 | 1766 | Austria | Kolin, 1757 |
Obwandiyag (Pontiac) | 1720 | 1769 | Ottawa | Pontiac’s War 1763-1764 |
Jassa Singh Ahluwalia | 1718 | 1783 | Sikh | Amritsar, 1762 |
Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu (Tipu Sultan) | 1750 | 1799 | Mysore | Pollilur, 1780 |
Daniel Morgan | 1736 | 1802 | USA | Cowpens, 1780 |
Touissant L’Ouverture | 1743 | 1803 | Haiti | Saint-Domingue Slave Revolt, 1791-1794 |
1745 | 1813 | Russia | French Invasion of Russia, 1812 | |
Louis-Gabriel Suchet | 1770 | 1826 | France | Saguntum, 1811 |
Antonio Jose de Sucre | 1795 | 1830 | Venezuela | Ayacucho, 1824 |
Jose Joaquin de Arredondo | 1776 | 1837 | Spain | Medina, 1813 |
Andrew Jackson | 1767 | 1845 | USA | New Orleans, 1815 |
Hone Wiremu Heke Pokai (Hone Heke) | 1808 | 1850 | Maori | Ruapekapeka, 1845-1846 |
Yang Xiuqing | 1821 | 1856 | China (Taiping Rebellion) | Nanjing, 1853 |
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde | 1792 | 1863 | Great Britain | Lucknow, 1858 |
Moshoeshoe I | 1786 | 1870 | Lesotho | Viervoet, 1851 |
George Henry Thomas | 1816 | 1870 | USA (Union) | Nashville, 1864 |
Imam Shamil | 1797 | 1871 | Dagestan | Dargo Campaign, 1845 |
A-da-tli-chi (Cochise) | 1805 | 1874 | Apache | Guerrilla Campaign, 1863-1873 |
Samori Ture | 1830 | 1900 | Guinea (Wassoulou) | Second Mandingo War, 1894-1895 |
Piet Joubert | 1831 | 1900 | Boer | Majuba, 1881 |
Charles George Gordon “Chinese Gordon” | 1833 | 1885 | Great Britain | Changzhou, 1864 |
Menelik II (Sahle Maryam) | 1844 | 1913 | Ethiopia | Adwa, 1896 |
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | 1850 | 1916 | Great Britain | Omdurman, 1898 |
Oyama Iwao | 1842 | 1916 | Japan | Mukden, 1905 |
Louis Botha | 1862 | 1919 | Boer | Colenso, 1900 |
Svetozar Boroevic | 1856 | 1920 | Austria-Hungary | Battles of the Isonzo I-XI, 1915-1917 |
Erich von Falkenhayn | 1861 | 1922 | Germany | Romanian Offensive, 1916-1917 |
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | 1861 | 1928 | United Kingdom | Amiens, 1918 |
Joseph Joffre | 1852 | 1931 | France | The Marne, 1914 |
Louis Franchet d’Esperey | 1856 | 1942 | France | Balkan Campaign, 1918 |
Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin | 1901 | 1944 | Russia/Soviet Union | Korsun-Shevchenko, 1944 |
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque | 1902 | 1947 | France | Strasbourg, 1944 |
Sudirman | 1916 | 1950 | Indonesia | Ambarawa, 1945 |
Holland McTyeire Smith “Howlin’ Mad” | 1882 | 1967 | USA | Marianas, 1944 |
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander | 1891 | 1969 | Great Britain | Tunisia, 1943 |
Gotthard Heinrici | 1886 | 1971 | Germany | Dukla Pass, 1944 |
Chen Yi | 1901 | 1972 | China (Communist/PRC) | Huaihai, 1948-1949 |
Jacob Loucks Devers | 1887 | 1979 | USA | Colmar Pocket, 1944-1945 |
Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf “Stormin’ Norman” | 1934 | 2012 | USA | Operation Desert Storm, 1991 |
Rank | Name | DOB | DOD | Nation | Greatest Achievement |
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1 | Yi Sun-Sin | 1545 | 1598 | Korea (Joseon Dynasty) | Myeongnyang, 1597 |
2 | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | 1758 | 1805 | Great Britain | Trafalgar, 1805 |
3 | Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter | 1607 | 1676 | Dutch | Texel, 1673 |
4 | Robert Blake | 1598 | 1657 | England (Parliamentarian) | Kentish Knock, 1652 |
5 | Togo Heihachiro | 1848 | 1934 | Japan | Tsushima, 1905 |
6 | Chester A. Nimitz | 1885 | 1966 | USA | Midway, 1942 |
7 | Themistocles | 524 BC | 459 BC | Athens | Salamis, 480 BC |
8 | Niels Juel | 1629 | 1697 | Denmark | Koge Bay, 1677 |
9 | Alvaro de Bazan, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz | 1526 | 1588 | Spain | Ponta Delgada, 1582 |
10 | Khayr ad-Din (Hayreddin) “Barbarossa” | 1478 | 1546 | Ottoman | Preveza, 1538 |
11 | Ruggiero di Lauria (Roger of Lauria) | 1245 | 1305 | Aragon | The Counts, 1287 |
12 | Affonso de Albuquerque | 1453 | 1515 | Portugal | Malacca, 1511 |
13 | Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp | 1598 | 1653 | Dutch | The Downs, 1639 |
14 | Phormio | N/A | 428 BC | Athens | Naupactus, 429 BC |
15 | Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke | 1705 | 1781 | Great Britain | Quiberon Bay, 1759 |
16 | Zheng He | 1371 | 1435 | China (Ming Dynasty) | Kotte, 1411 |
17 | Pierre Andre de Suffren | 1729 | 1788 | France | Cuddalore, 1783 |
18 | George Anson, 1st Baron Anson | 1697 | 1762 | Great Britain | Cape Finisterre I, 1747 |
19 | Alcibiades | 450 BC | 404 BC | Athens/basically anyone | Cyzicus, 410 BC |
20 | Isoroku Yamamoto | 1884 | 1943 | Japan | Pearl Harbor, 1941 |
21 | Don Juan de Austria | 1547 | 1578 | Spain | Lepanto, 1571 |
22 | Raymond A. Spruance | 1886 | 1969 | USA | Philippine Sea, 1944 |
23 | George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney | 1718 | 1792 | Great Britain | The Saintes, 1782 |
24 | George Monck | 1608 | 1670 | England | The Gabbard, 1653 |
25 | Anne Hilarion de Tourville | 1642 | 1701 | France | Beachy Head, 1690 |
26 | Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa | 64 BC | 12 BC | Rome | Actium, 31 BC |
27 | Wilhelm von Tegetthoff | 1827 | 1871 | Austria | Lissa, 1866 |
28 | Dom Francisco de Almeida | 1450 | 1510 | Portugal | Diu, 1509 |
29 | Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald | 1775 | 1860 | Great Britain/Chile | Valdivia, 1820 |
30 | Cimon | 510 BC | 450 BC | Athens | Eurymedon River, 466 BC |
31 | Sir Francis Drake | 1540 | 1596 | England | Cadiz, 1587 |
32 | Karl Donitz | 1891 | 1980 | Germany | Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945 |
33 | Fyodor Apraksin | 1661 | 1728 | Russia | Gangut, 1714 |
34 | David Glasgow Farragut | 1801 | 1870 | USA (Union) | Mobile Bay, 1864 |
35 | Gaius Duilius | 300 BC | 225 BC | Roman | Mylae, 260 BC |
36 | Abraham Duquesne | 1610 | 1688 | France | Augusta, 1676 |
37 | Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham | 1883 | 1963 | Great Britain | Cape Matapan, 1941 |
38 | Lysander | N/A | 395 BC | Sparta | Aegospotami, 404 BC |
39 | Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp | 1629 | 1691 | Dutch | Oland, 1676 |
40 | John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher | 1841 | 1920 | Great Britain | Preparation for WWI, 1902-1914 |
41 | Philips van Almonde | 1644 | 1711 | Dutch | Vigo Bay, 1702 |
42 | Demosthenes | N/A | 413 BC | Athens | Pylos & Sphacteria, 425 BC |
43 | Andrea Doria | 1466 | 1560 | Genoa | Pianosa, 1519 |
44 | Oruc Reis | 1474 | 1518 | Ottoman | Tlemcen, 1517 |
45 | John Jervis, 1st Earl of St. Vincent | 1735 | 1823 | Great Britain | Cape St. Vincent, 1797 |
46 | Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov | 1737 | 1808 | Russia | Chesma, 1770 |
47 | Raizo Tanaka | 1892 | 1969 | Japan | Tassafaronga, 1942 |
48 | Edward Boscawen | 1711 | 1761 | Great Britain | Lagos, 1759 |
49 | Marc A. Mitscher | 1887 | 1947 | USA | Philippine Sea, 1944 |
50 | Herluf Trolle | 1516 | 1565 | Denmark | Fehmarn, 1565 |
Name | DOB | DOD | Nation | Greatest Achievement |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nearchus | 360 BC | 300 BC | Macedon | Indian Ocean Voyage, 326-324 BC |
Lodewijk van Boisot | N/A | 1576 | Dutch | Scheldt, 1574 |
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham | 1536 | 1624 | England | Spanish Armada, 1588 |
Antonio de Oquendo | 1577 | 1630 | Spain | Albrolhos, 1631 |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 1619 | 1682 | England (Royalist) | St. James’ Day Battle, 1666 |
John Narborough | 1640 | 1688 | England | Tripoli, 1675 |
Jean Bart | 1650 | 1702 | France | Dogger Bank, 1696 |
Peter Tordenskjold | 1690 | 1720 | Denmark/Norway | Dynekilen, 1716 |
Blas de Lezo | 1689 | 1741 | Spain | Cartagena, 1741 |
Edward Vernon | 1684 | 1757 | Great Britain | Porto Bello, 1739 |
Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse | 1723 | 1788 | France | The Chesapeake, 1781 |
John Paul Jones | 1747 | 1792 | USA/Russia | Flamborough Head, 1779 |
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe | 1726 | 1799 | Great Britain | Glorious First of June, 1794 |
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood | 1724 | 1816 | Great Britain | Mona Passage, 1782 |
Stephen Decatur | 1779 | 1820 | USA | Tripoli, 1804 |
Carl-Olof Cronstedt | 1756 | 1820 | Sweden | Svensksund, 1790 |
William Sidney Smith | 1764 | 1840 | Great Britain | Acre, 1799 |
Robert Stopford | 1768 | 1847 | Great Britain | Java, 1811 |
Amedee Courbet | 1827 | 1885 | France | Shipu, 1885 |
Tsuboi Kozo | 1843 | 1898 | Japan | Yalu River, 1894 |
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe | 1859 | 1935 | Great Britain | Jutland, 1916 |
Clifton Sprague | 1896 | 1955 | USA | Samar, 1944 |
Ernest J. King | 1878 | 1956 | USA | World War II, 1939-1945 |
Richmond K. Turner | 1885 | 1961 | USA | Amphibious War in the Pacific, 1942-1945 |
Jisaburo Ozawa | 1886 | 1966 | Japan | Indian Ocean Expedition, 1942 |
Rank | Name | DOB | DOD | Nation | Greatest Achievement |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | 1892 | 1984 | Great Britain | Strategic Bombing-Europe, 1942-1945 |
2 | Jimmy Doolittle | 1896 | 1993 | USA | Doolittle Raid, 1942 |
3 | Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding | 1882 | 1970 | Great Britain | Battle of Britain, 1940 |
4 | Carl Andrew Spaatz | 1891 | 1974 | USA | Strategic Bombing-Europe, 1943-1945 |
5 | Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen | 1895 | 1945 | Germany | France, 1940 |
6 | Alexander Novikov | 1900 | 1976 | Russia/Soviet Union | World War II, 1941-1945 |
7 | Billy Mitchell | 1879 | 1936 | USA | Saint-Mihiel, 1918 |
8 | Mordechai Hod | 1926 | 2003 | Israel | Six-Day War, 1967 |
9 | Giulio Douhet | 1869 | 1930 | Italy | The Command of the Air, 1921 |
10 | Curtis LeMay | 1906 | 1990 | USA | Strategic Bombing-Japan, 1944-1945 |
11 | Marina Raskova | 1912 | 1943 | Russia/Soviet Union | Stalingrad, 1942 |
12 | Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | 1890 | 1967 | Great Britain | El Alamein, 1942 |
13 | George Kenney | 1889 | 1977 | USA | Bismarck Sea, 1943 |
14 | Henry “Hap” Arnold | 1886 | 1950 | USA | World War II, 1941-1945 |
15 | Robert Ritter von Greim | 1892 | 1945 | Germany | Kursk, 1943 |
Following the landings at Salerno in September 1943 during Operation Avalanche, Winston Churchill saw Italy as the ‘soft under-belly’ of the Third Reich. However, it became a costly WW2 battlefield with thousands of casualties involving iconic battles like the landings at Anzio and the fighting for Monte Cassino. Dr Danila Bracaglia, historian and licensed guide, monte cassino war tours, monte cassino battlefield tours, following the footsteps of the 36th texas divsion, t-patchers and red bull tours, fssf monte la defensa, monte sammucro, mount trocchio, monte cassino tours, battlefiled tours cassino, ww2 tours italy, ww2 tours salerno, ww2 tours anzio, operation shingle, operation avalanche, tours ww2 Our 7 day Italy in the Second World War tour is guided by Patrick Mercer. We visit Salerno, Cassino, Anzio and much more on this stunning tour of Italy. Rated 98% based on 707 reviews Cassino Tourism: Tripadvisor has 20,631 reviews of Cassino Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Cassino resource. Built on the site of a sixth-century monastery, Monte Cassino was designed by some of southeastern Europe's finest artists before its papal consecration in 1041. The abbey has been restored since its destruction in 1944 during the Battle of Monte Cassino. View relics, mosaics, manuscripts, and other Italy was already a tough campaign but there were tougher moments such as the fighting around Monte Cassino which delayed the allied advance for many more weeks. Even after these obstacles had been overcome the Allies faced the formidable Gothic Line of defences and the Italian campaign dragged on until 29th April 1945 when the Germans finally The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino) was a costly series of four battles during World War II fought by the Allies with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome. About Monte Cassino War Tours Qualified licensed tourist guides German,English, Italian, French speaking. Personalised interesting itineraries at Montecassino, ww2 cemeteries and the Ciociaria Region created for private visitors or group up to 50. About Monte Cassino Battlefield Tours Battlefield tours in Cassino, Anzio and Rome organized by fully licensed tour guide specialized in historical tours available both for groups & individuals. You will have a WW2 guide at your disposal for a full day not only a driver. Dr Danila Bracaglia, historian and licensed guide, monte cassino war tours, monte cassino battlefield tours, following the footsteps of the 36th texas divsion, t-patchers and red bull tours, fssf monte la defensa, monte sammucro, mount trocchio, monte cassino tours, battlefiled tours cassino, ww2 tours italy, ww2 tours salerno, ww2 tours anzio, operation shingle, operation avalanche, tours ww2
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