Military Leader · 1768 – 1813
Tecumseh
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Sitting Bull
84Sitting Bull was the Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man who united the Sioux nations against American expansion, led the coalition that defeated Custer at the Little Bighorn in 1876, and became a symbol of Native American resistance to US conquest.
Why A later Native American leader who similarly built coalitions to resist US expansion, continuing the resistance tradition Tecumseh began.
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.
Why The American founder whose nation's westward expansion Tecumseh dedicated his life to stopping.
Simón Bolívar
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.
Why A near-contemporary who similarly sought to unify diverse peoples against a dominant power, though with very different results.
Charles Martel
81Charles Martel was the Frankish military leader who halted the Muslim advance into Western Europe at the Battle of Tours in 732, laying the foundations of the Carolingian dynasty that his grandson Charlemagne would raise to empire.
Why Also a military leader & statesman · Comparable historical impact
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.
Why Also a military leader & statesman · Comparable historical impact
Oliver Cromwell
81Oliver Cromwell was the English military and political leader who helped overthrow and execute King Charles I in the English Civil War, then ruled England as Lord Protector in its only period as a republic — a deeply divisive figure ever since.
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Suleiman I
90Suleiman the Magnificent was the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who led it to the height of its power through military conquest, legal reform and a brilliant flowering of art and architecture.
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Themistocles
79Themistocles was an Athenian statesman and general whose foresight built the navy that saved Greece, and whose brilliant strategy at the Battle of Salamis destroyed the Persian fleet and turned back Xerxes's invasion.
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
81Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the warrior-statesman who completed the unification of Japan begun by Oda Nobunaga, rising from peasant origins to rule the entire country before launching ambitious and ill-fated invasions of Korea.
Why Also a statesman & military leader · Comparable historical impact
Same Field or Discipline
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.
Why Also a statesman & military leader · Active in the same era
Geronimo
81Geronimo was the Apache leader whose decade-long guerrilla resistance against the United States and Mexico made him the most feared and pursued Native American fighter of the 19th century, requiring 5,000 US troops to finally capture 38 warriors.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
John Brown
81John Brown was the American abolitionist who believed that slavery could only be ended by armed violence, led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, was hanged for treason, and became the most polarizing and prophetic figure of the American antislavery movement.
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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.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
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.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
Che Guevara
83Che Guevara was the Argentine Marxist revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba, theorized guerrilla warfare as the path to revolution in the developing world, and became an iconic symbol of rebellion after his execution in Bolivia in 1967.
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Theodore Roosevelt
85Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, a soldier, conservationist and reformer — and a remarkably prolific author who wrote around forty books on history, nature, politics and exploration alongside his public career.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
Thomas Jefferson
88Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, who was also a prolific writer, architect and scholar whose Notes on the State of Virginia was a landmark of early American letters.
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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.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
Duke of Wellington
87The Duke of Wellington was the British general who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, ending the Napoleonic Wars, and who subsequently served as Prime Minister of Britain — the only man to hold both the highest military and civilian offices in British history.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
Shaka Zulu
80Shaka Zulu was the founder and greatest king of the Zulu Kingdom, a military revolutionary whose new tactics and weapons transformed warfare in southern Africa and forged a small clan into a powerful nation.
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Adolf Hitler
90Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, whose ideology of racial supremacy and aggressive expansionism plunged the world into World War II and caused the Holocaust — the genocide of six million Jews and millions of others.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
Benjamin Franklin
90Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath — a founding father, scientist, inventor, writer and diplomat — whose work on electricity and statesmanship made him one of the most admired figures of the 18th century.
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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.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era