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Top 10 Best Generals in the World

Through tens of thousands of years of human history, many talented and outstanding generals have appeared. They are geniuses in the military field that can change the world order. War is a part of history, it has caused death and great loss in human history. Besides, war is also the cradle that gives birth to many heroes. Who are they? Let's find out the Top best military genius generals in the world - Those who have changed the world order!

1. Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great or (July 20, 356 BC – June 11, 323 BC) was the 14th basileus (king) of the Argead dynasty of the ancient Kingdom of Macedonia. During his military career, Alexander conquered nearly the entire known world to Europeans before his death and is therefore often regarded as one of the most successful generals and military strategists in history. After the unification of the ancient Greek city-states under his father Philip II, Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Asia Minor, Syria, Phoenicia, Gaza, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia, and extended his empire's borders as far as present-day Punjab in India. His victory over the Persians at Gaugamela - his third decisive victory over the Persian king Darius III - is considered one of the most glorious victories of antiquity; he also routed the Scythians - a people who had always been invincible in battle.

Alexander's legacy includes the cultural diffusion and synthesis that resulted from his conquests, most notably Greek Buddhism. He founded some seventy cities in his name, the most prominent of which was Alexandria in Egypt. The new cities were populated by Greek immigrants, together with the spread of Greek culture in the east, creating a new Greek civilization, aspects of which are still evident in the customs of the Byzantine Empire nearly 2,000 years later. He himself lived on in the histories and legends of Greek and non-Greek cultures. During his lifetime, and especially after his death, his conquests inspired a literary tradition in which he appeared as a legendary hero in the tradition of Achilles. He was undefeated in battle and became the benchmark for military commanders. To this day, his tactics are taught in military academies around the world. Alexander the Great is often ranked among the most influential men of all time.
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2. Hanibal Barca

Hannibal was the son of Hamilcar Barca (247 BC - 183 BC), a Carthaginian general and military strategist. The name "Hannibal" means "joy of Baal" (the Carthaginian god), and his surname "Barca" means "lightning". Barca can be spelled "Barak" or "Barcas". His father Hamilcar Barca commanded the Carthaginians in the First Punic War, and his two younger brothers were Mago and Hasdrubal, and his brother-in-law was also named Hasdrubal. Hannibal lived during a period of turmoil in the Mediterranean, when the Roman Republic established its supremacy over major powers such as Carthage, the Kingdom of Macedonia, Syracuse, and the Seleucid Kingdom. Hannibal was the most famous Carthaginian general. His most notable achievement was when, at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, Hannibal led an army, including war elephants, from Iberia across the Pyrenees and Alps into northern Italy. During his invasion of Italy, Hannibal routed the Romans in a series of battles, including the battles of Trebia, Trasimene and Cannae. After Cannae, many of the allies of the Roman Republic joined Hannibal when he promised them independence and self-government.

According to some historians, Hannibal lacked the siege engines necessary to attack a fortified Roman city, but as J. F. Lazenby points out, it was not a lack of siege weapons but a lack of supplies and a political agenda. He maintained an army in Italy for over a decade and never lost a major battle, but was unable to force the Romans to accept terms for peace. A Roman counter-invasion of Spain and then Africa forced Hannibal to return to Carthage, where he was defeated at the Battle of Zama. After the war, he became a successful consul in Carthage. He enacted political and economic reforms to restore Carthage after paying the war indemnity to the Roman Republic. His reforms were opposed by the Carthaginian elite. Suspicious of members of the Roman Senate who feared Hannibal's military prowess, he was forced into exile by Rome. During his exile, he lived at the Seleucid court, where he became a military advisor to King Antiochus III in his war against Rome. After Antiochus III was defeated and forced to accept Roman terms, Hannibal stopped in Armenia, where he worked as a planner for the establishment of a new capital.
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3. Julius Cesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman who played a major role in the events that led to the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. Born into the Julia family, one of Rome's great aristocratic families, Caesar was exposed to and involved in political life at an early age. In 60 BC, he, along with Crassus and Pompeirus (Pompey), formed the First Triumvirate, a political alliance that dominated Rome for many years. Caesar's populist approach to power clashed with and led to opposition from Rome's ruling aristocracy, headed by Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's successful campaigns in Gaul opened Rome's access to the Atlantic Ocean. Julius Caesar is credited with being the first Roman general to successfully build the Rhine Bridge in 55 BC and becoming the first Roman general to cross the English Channel and invade Britain. Caesar's great military successes gave him supreme military power; threatening the position of Pompey, who had sided with the Senate after Crassus's death at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC. After the end of the Gallic Wars, Caesar was ordered to relinquish his military command and return to Rome. Caesar disobeyed this order and instead left his jurisdiction, crossing the Rubicon River into Rome with a Roman legion in 49 BC. The result was a civil war in Rome, with Caesar ultimately winning. After taking power in Rome, Caesar began a series of social and governmental reforms, including the creation and implementation of the Julian calendar. He also centralized power in the republican government and became a Dictator perpetuo (Dictator for life) with unprecedented powers. However, the political conflicts remained unresolved, and on the Idus Martiae (March 15) of 44 BC, a group of rebellious senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus successfully assassinated Caesar. This led to a series of civil wars that broke out in Rome, ending with the republican government never being restored and Gaius Octavius ​​Octavianus, Caesar's nephew and designated heir, assuming absolute power as Augustus after defeating all other rivals. Augustus' consolidation of power marked the beginning of the Roman Empire.
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4. Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan (1162 - 1227) was a Mongol Khan and the founder of the Mongol Empire after uniting the independent tribes of Northeast Asia in 1206. He was one of the most brilliant and influential military leaders in world history, and is revered by the Mongols as the leader who brought unification to Mongolia. His grandson and successor, Kublai Khan, founded the Yuan Dynasty of China. In October of the third year of Zhiyuan (1266), Kublai Khan posthumously honored Genghis Khan with the temple name Taizu, so he was also known as Yuan Taizu. The posthumous name at that time was Emperor Shengwu. In the second year of Zhida (1309), Emperor Wuzong of Yuan gave him the posthumous name Fatian Kaiyun. From then on, his posthumous name was Fatian Kaiyun Emperor Shengwu.

Genghis Khan's conquests across Eurasia to expand his territory brought unity and trade, and he also implemented a policy of religious freedom. However, Genghis Khan was also known for his brutality towards those who opposed him. Genghis Khan is considered by many peoples to be the embodiment of brutality, especially in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East (where the Mongol army had massacred people). It is estimated that Genghis Khan's army killed over 40 million people in the territories they conquered. Many famous figures are said to be descendants of Genghis Khan, such as Timur Lenk, the conqueror of the Turks; Babur, the founder of the Mongol Empire in Indian history. Other descendants of Genghis Khan continued to rule Mongolia into the 17th century, until it was conquered by the Manchu Qing Empire.
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5. Hung Dao Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan


Tran Hung Dao (1228 - 1300), real name Tran Quoc Tuan, title Hung Dao Dai Vuong, was a politician, military man, and royal member of Dai Viet during the Tran Dynasty. He is known in Vietnamese history for commanding the army to defeat two invasions by the Yuan - Mongol army in 1285 and 1288. Most historical research documents and later folklore often use the short name "Tran Hung Dao" instead of the full name "Hung Dao Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan", which includes the title bestowed upon him. He is one of the 14 typical heroes of the Vietnamese nation. As the son of Prince An Sinh Vuong Tran Lieu and the grandson of Tran Thai To, Tran Hung Dao had a close relationship with the Tran royal family and King Tran Nhan Tong called him uncle. In 1257, he was appointed by King Tran Thai Tong as a general to command the forces at the border to fight the invading Mongols. He then retreated to his fief in Van Kiep. In the 10th lunar month of 1283, the Yuan Dynasty (after the Mongols unified China) threatened to attack Dai Viet for the second time. Hung Dao Vuong was appointed as the National Duke by the Retired Emperor Tran Thanh Tong and King Tran Nhan Tong (respectively his cousin and nephew), commanding the army of the whole country. In this position, in 1285, he led the army to stop the invading army led by the ninth prince Thoat Hoan. After the initial failures, the Vietnamese army and people under the leadership of the two Tran Kings, General Thai Su Tran Quang Khai and Hung Dao Vuong counterattacked strongly, defeating the Yuan army in the battles of Ham Tu, Chuong Duong, Truong Yen, Van Kiep... completely driving the Yuan army away from the border. In 1288, the Yuan army returned to invade Dai Viet for the third time. When he continued to be awarded the title of Duke; Hung Dao Vuong affirmed to King Tran Nhan Tong "This year, fighting the enemy is easy". He successfully applied Ngo Quyen's tactics, completely defeated the Yuan navy led by generals Phan Tiep and O Ma Nhi in the naval battle on Bach Dang River, forcing the Yuan army to retreat and permanently abandon their ambition to annex the South. In the fourth lunar month of 1289, Tran Nhan Tong officially conferred on him the title of "Great King" although the highest position of the court at that time still belonged to the Supreme General and Grand Tutor Chieu Minh Dai Vuong Tran Quang Khai. After that, he retired to Van Kiep until his death in 1300. Before his death, he advised Tran Anh Tong: "We must be lenient and let the people have a deep and lasting plan". In addition, he also left behind classic works such as Proclamation to Soldiers, Essentials of Military Strategy and Secret Book of Van Kiep Tong, which laid the foundation for Vietnamese military art from the Tran Dynasty to the present day.
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6. Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English political and military leader who played a major role in the establishment of the republic in England and was later made Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was one of the commanders of the new army that defeated the Royalists in the English Civil War. After the execution of King Charles I of England in 1649, Cromwell conquered Ireland and Scotland and ruled as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658. Cromwell was born into a minor aristocratic family and lived in relative obscurity until his early 40s. He lived for a time as a small landowner, then prospered through an inheritance from an uncle. Also in his 40s, Cromwell converted to Puritanism. He was elected to the House of Commons at Cambridge and fought in the English Civil War on the side of the Parliamentarians. A brave warrior (nicknamed "Iron"), he first made his name by leading a cavalry charge against the entire royal army. Cromwell was the third signatory to the death warrant of Charles I in 1649 and was a member of the Rump Parliament from 1649 to 1653. He was given command of the campaign against Scotland in 1650-1651. On 20 April 1653, Cromwell forcibly dissolved the Rump Parliament and established the Barebone Parliament before becoming Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland on 16 December 1653 until his death. When the Royalists returned to power in 1660, his body was exhumed, hanged and beheaded. Cromwell is a controversial figure in British history. To historians such as David Hume and Christopher Hill, he is a tyrant who committed regicide, but to others such as Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Rawson Gardiner, he is a hero of liberty and democracy. In Britain, Cromwell was voted one of the 10 greatest Britons of all time in a BBC poll in 2002.
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7. Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte born Napoleone (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who led several successful campaigns during the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars. He was Emperor of the French as Napoleon I from 1804 to 1814 and returned to the throne in 1815 for nearly 100 days. Napoleon dominated much of Europe for more than a decade as he led France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He was victorious in most of these battles, creating a vast empire that dominated much of continental Europe before its collapse in 1815. He is considered one of the greatest military leaders in world history, and his campaigns have been studied by military schools around the world. Napoleon is also considered by many scholars to be one of the most controversial figures in human history.

Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica to an aristocratic Italian family. He served as an artilleryman in the French army when the French Revolution broke out in 1789. He rose rapidly through the ranks of the army, seizing the opportunities created by the French Revolution and becoming a senior general at the age of 24. The French Directory finally authorized Napoleon to lead a French army into Italy after he had crushed the Royalist rebels at the Battle of the 13 Vendémiaire against the Government. At the age of 26, he began his first military campaigns against Austria and the pro-Habsburg Italian king and won almost all of them, conquering the Italian peninsula in just one year and establishing sister republics with the support of local governments, becoming a war hero of France. In 1798 he led an expeditionary force to Egypt and this became a major highlight of his later political power. Napoleon led a coup in November 1799 and became First Consul of the French Republic.
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8. Mikhaiin Cutudop

Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (16 September 1745 – 28 April 1813) was a Russian military, politician and diplomat. With his intelligent and studious nature, family background and special passion for military engineering, Kutuzov quickly became an outstanding student at school. At the same time, Mikhail also studied French, Latin, Turkish, English, Swedish and Polish. He also showed a love for mathematics, history, philosophy and literature; this helped him to be admitted to a special class for elite students, where they learned more about military history and European diplomacy. In December 1759, the rector Pyotr Shuvalov appointed Kutuzov as an assistant teacher of arithmetic and geometry, when he was only 14 years old. Kutuzov held various military and foreign affairs posts under Empress Catherine II (1762–1797), King Paul I (1797–1801), and King Alexander I (1801–1825), notably commanding the Russian army in the Franco-Russian War (1812).

Mikhail Kutuzov was born into a military aristocratic family with a long tradition; in his youth, he participated in wars with Poland (1768), Turkey (1768–1774; 1787–1792), achieving military feats but was repeatedly injured in the right eye, resulting in permanent blindness. Kutuzov later carried out diplomatic missions in the Ottoman Empire, Prussia, and Sweden. In 1805, he became the commander-in-chief of the Russian-Austrian coalition against the French army of Emperor Napoleon I at the Battle of Austerlitz. From 1806 to 1812, Kutuzov commanded the Russian army in the war with the Ottomans in the Danube basin. In the Franco-Russian War of 1812, Kutuzov was chosen by Tsar Alexander I to replace Barclay de Tolly as commander-in-chief of the army. Under his leadership, the Russian army and people drove the French army out of the territory, creating a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars throughout Europe. Afterwards, Kutuzov was made Duke of Smolensk in honor of his achievements; but shortly after (1813), he died. In 1973, the government of the (former) Soviet Union built a monument to Kutuzov in Moscow. His name was also given to a combat medal of the Red Army of the Soviet Union during the Soviet-German war (1941-1945).
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9. Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a general officer and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defense, and a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party (later the Politburo). During World War II, Zhukov led several decisive campaigns of the Red Army. Born into a poor peasant family in central Russia, Zhukov joined the Imperial Russian Army and fought in World War I. He served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Gradually rising through the ranks, in 1939, Zhukov was given command of an army and won the decisive battle against the Japanese at Khalkhin Gol, the first of four Hero of the Soviet Union awards. In February 1941, Zhukov was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army.

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Zhukov lost his position as Chief of the General Staff. He then organized the defense of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. He helped plan several major offensives, including the Battle of Kursk and Operation Bagration. In 1945, Zhukov commanded the 1st Belorussian Front, which participated in the Vistula–Oder Offensive and the Battle of Berlin, which led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the war in Europe. In recognition of Zhukov's contributions to the war, he was chosen to accept the German surrender and inspect the Victory Parade in Moscow in 1945. After the war, Zhukov's success and popularity led Joseph Stalin to view him as a potential threat. Stalin stripped him of his positions and demoted him to less strategically important positions. After Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov supported Nikita Khrushchev's bid for leadership of the Soviet Union. In 1955, he was appointed Minister of Defense and a member of the Presidium. In 1957, Zhukov again fell out of favor and was forced to retire. He never returned to politics and died in 1974.
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10. General Vo Nguyen Giap

General Vo Nguyen Giap was born on August 25, 1911 in An Xa village, Loc Thuy commune, Le Thuy district, Quang Binh province, in a family of Confucian scholars, the son of Mr. Vo Quang Nghiem (Vo Nguyen Than), a virtuous Confucian scholar, and his mother, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Kien. Mr. Nghiem's ​​family was one of the poorest in the village, having to borrow heavily all year round from rich families such as Khoa Uy, a wealthy Chinese in the neighboring Tuy Loc village. Vo Nguyen Giap once followed his mother on a boat carrying rice to pay off the debt. Although he was still young, the stories his mother told him every night about General Ton That Thuyet assisting King Ham Nghi in issuing the Can Vuong edict, calling on scholars and people to rise up against the French to protect the country, and his father's touching story about the movement to fight the French through the poem "The Fall of the Capital" left an indelible impression on the boy, contributing to nurturing his will for the revolutionary cause later on. General Vo Nguyen Giap was a famous activist of the Communist Party and the State of Vietnam, an excellent commander and military theorist of Vietnam. He participated in revolutionary activities very early: in 1925, he participated in leading the Hue student movement. In 1929, he participated in reforming the Tan Viet Revolutionary Party into the Indochina Communist League. In 1930, he was arrested by the French colonialists. From 1936 to 1939, he participated in the Indochina Democratic Front Movement, participated in founding the newspapers "Labor", "Our Voice"; edited the newspapers "Tin Tuc", "Dan Chung". Chairman of the Northern Press Committee in the Indochina Congress movement. In 1940, General Vo Nguyen Giap joined the Indochina Communist Party. After May 1941, he built a revolutionary base, organized the Viet Minh in Cao Bang; participated in the armed uprising in the Cao - Bac - Lang Base. In 1942, he was in charge of the Southern Assault Committee, using armed propaganda activities to open communication routes between the mountains and the Northern Delta. General Vo Nguyen Giap has many military works of high research value such as: "Liberated Zone" (1946), "Liberation Army" (1947), "Liberation War and the People's Army, Three Strategic Stages" (1950), "Dien Bien Phu" (1964), "Some issues of the Party's military line" (1970), "Arming the revolutionary masses, building the people's army" (1972), "National Liberation War and the War to Defend the Fatherland" (1979), "Ho Chi Minh Thought and the Vietnamese Revolutionary Path" (2000)... With his extremely great contributions to the Vietnamese revolution, the General was awarded many noble awards by the Party and State such as: Gold Star Order, two Ho Chi Minh Orders, two First Class Military Exploit Orders, 70-year Party membership badge, and many other noble medals and awards...

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