General · 1769 – 1852
Duke of Wellington
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94Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose during the French Revolution, crowned himself Emperor, and dominated European affairs for over a decade.
Why His great adversary, whom he defeated at Waterloo — the defining contest of both men's careers.
Horatio Nelson
86Horatio Nelson was the British naval commander whose victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 destroyed the French and Spanish combined fleet, secured British naval supremacy for a century, and made him the greatest hero of British military history — killed at the moment of his triumph.
Why His great contemporary and fellow British hero, the naval genius who won Trafalgar while Wellington was winning the land war.
Napoleon III
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Why The nephew of the emperor Wellington defeated, whose later reign Wellington lived to see begin.
Mark Antony
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Scipio Africanus
81Scipio Africanus was a Roman general who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama to win the Second Punic War, one of the greatest commanders of antiquity and the savior of the Roman Republic in its darkest hour.
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88Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first Prime Minister, who guided the country's independence from Britain, built its democratic institutions, launched industrialization and scientific development, and co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement of nations uncommitted to either Cold War superpower.
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Winston Churchill
90Winston Churchill was the British statesman who led the United Kingdom to victory in World War II — and a prolific historian and writer whose books and speeches won him the Nobel Prize in Literature, a rare honour for a man of action.
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Charles de Gaulle
89Charles de Gaulle was the French military and political leader who refused to accept France's defeat in 1940, led the Free French resistance from London, liberated Paris, and later founded the Fifth Republic as president, restoring French national pride and global standing.
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Chiang Kai-shek
82Chiang Kai-shek was the Chinese Nationalist leader who unified China in the late 1920s, led the country through the Japanese invasion in World War II, but lost the Chinese Civil War to Mao Zedong and retreated to Taiwan, which he ruled until his death.
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Francisco de Miranda
78Francisco de Miranda was the Venezuelan revolutionary who became the forerunner of Spanish American independence, fighting across three continents before returning home to lead Venezuela's first republic — a visionary who preceded Bolívar and inspired the liberation of Latin America.
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Joseph Stalin
91Joseph Stalin was the Soviet dictator who industrialized the USSR, led it to victory in World War II, and built a vast empire in Eastern Europe — but also presided over a totalitarian state that killed millions through purges, gulags, and engineered famine.
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
91Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the military commander who defeated the Allied partition of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923, and then transformed it through sweeping secular modernization reforms that reshaped Turkish society.
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88Simón Bolívar was the South American general and statesman who liberated six nations from Spanish colonial rule, earning the title El Libertador and shaping the independence of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia.
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George Washington
91George Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution and the first President of the United States, whose leadership and restraint shaped the new republic.
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Tecumseh
83Tecumseh was the Shawnee leader who built the largest Native American confederacy in history to resist US expansion, allied with the British in the War of 1812, and was killed at the Battle of the Thames — becoming the greatest pan-Indian leader America ever faced.
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92Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, who led the nation through its Civil War, preserved the Union, and abolished slavery before his assassination in 1865.
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Alexander Hamilton
87Alexander Hamilton was the American Founding Father who designed the United States financial system, co-wrote the Federalist Papers, founded the first national bank, served as the first Secretary of the Treasury, and was killed in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804.
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Deng Xiaoping
89Deng Xiaoping was the Chinese leader who reversed Mao Zedong's catastrophic policies after 1978, opening China to market reforms that transformed it from a poor agrarian country into the world's second-largest economy.
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Fidel Castro
84Fidel Castro was the Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959 and then ruled Cuba as a communist state for nearly five decades, becoming the longest-serving non-royal head of government in the 20th century and a towering symbol of Cold War confrontation.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
92Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States who led the country through the Great Depression with the New Deal and through most of World War II, serving an unprecedented four terms and reshaping the role of the federal government in American life.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
84Giuseppe Garibaldi was the Italian nationalist military leader who united southern Italy with the north through his bold expedition of the Thousand, becoming the military hero of Italian unification and one of the most celebrated revolutionary figures of the 19th century.
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Haile Selassie I
85Haile Selassie was the Emperor of Ethiopia who modernized his country, became the symbol of African resistance to European colonialism after surviving Mussolini's invasion, championed African unity at the UN and as founder of the African Union, and is venerated as a messiah by the Rastafari movement.
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Ho Chi Minh
88Ho Chi Minh was the Vietnamese revolutionary leader who led the resistance against French colonial rule and then American military intervention, founding the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and becoming the unifying symbol of Vietnamese independence.
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