The Military 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Military Leaders of All TimeTHEY WERE CONQUERERS. LIBERATORS. HEROES. MADMEN.ALL CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE This compelling study by Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (U.S. Army, Ret.) lists the hundred most influential military leaders not by their victories, their combat prowess, or even their legacies, but by the lasting impact that their lives had upon the world, the lives they affected, and the historical significance of their actions in war. Warriors from every corner of the globe and every era are profiled, both glorious and notorious, modern and ancient, good and evil, including: George Washington Attila the Hun Adolf Hitler Napoleon Hannibal Alexander the Great H. Norman Schwarzkopf Ghengis Khan George S. Patton Sun Tzu Oliver CromwellILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOS AND PORTRAITS Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (U.S. Army, Ret.) served as public affairs officer for General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. He has spent more than twenty years on active duty in the U.S. Army. He is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, in which he served as an infantry platoon leader and a company commander. The author of twelve books, Lanning lives in Phoenix, Arizona. |
Contents
George Washington | 3 |
Napoleon I | 7 |
Alexander the Great | 14 |
Genghis Khan | 18 |
Julius Caesar | 22 |
Gustavus Adolphus | 25 |
Francisco Pizarro | 29 |
Charlemagne Charles the Great | 33 |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | 197 |
Ivan Stepanovich Konev | 201 |
Suleiman I | 204 |
Colin Campbell | 208 |
Samuel Sam Houston | 212 |
Richard I the LionHearted | 216 |
Shaka | 219 |
Robert Edward Lee | 223 |
Hernando Cortés | 37 |
Cyrus the Great | 41 |
Frederick the Great Frederick II | 44 |
Simón Bolívar | 49 |
William the Conqueror | 53 |
Adolf Hitler | 56 |
Attila the Hun | 60 |
George Catlett Marshall | 64 |
Peter the Great | 68 |
Dwight David Eisenhower | 72 |
Oliver Cromwell | 76 |
Douglas MacArthur | 80 |
Karl von Clausewitz | 85 |
Arthur Wellesley First Duke of Wellington | 88 |
Sun Tzu | 92 |
HermannMaurice Comte de Saxe | 95 |
Tamerlane | 99 |
Antoine Henri Jomini | 102 |
Eugene of Savoy | 106 |
Fernández Gonzalo de Córdoba | 109 |
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban | 112 |
Hannibal | 115 |
John Churchill Duke of Marlborough | 119 |
Winfield Scott | 123 |
Ulysses Simpson Grant | 127 |
Scipio Africanus | 132 |
Horatio Nelson | 135 |
John Frederick Charles Fuller | 139 |
Henri de la Tour dAuvergne de Turenne | 143 |
Alfred Thayer Mahan | 147 |
Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke | 150 |
Vo Nguyen Giap | 154 |
John Joseph Pershing | 158 |
Maurice of Nassau | 162 |
Joan of Arc | 165 |
Alan Francis Brooke Alanbrooke | 168 |
Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval | 171 |
Omar Nelson Bradley | 174 |
Ralph Abercromby | 177 |
Mao Zedong | 180 |
H Norman Schwarzkopf | 184 |
Alexander Vasilevich Suvorov | 187 |
Louis Alexandre Berthier | 191 |
José de San Martín | 194 |
Chester William Nimitz | 227 |
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | 231 |
Bernard Law Montgomery | 234 |
Carl Gustav Emil von Mannerheim | 238 |
H H Hap Arnold | 242 |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 245 |
John Arbuthnot Fisher | 249 |
Heihachiro Togo | 252 |
Moshe Dayan | 255 |
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov | 259 |
Ferdinand Foch | 263 |
Edward I | 266 |
Selim I | 270 |
Giulio Douhet | 273 |
Heinz Guderian | 276 |
Lin Piao | 280 |
Isoroku Yamamoto | 283 |
Harold Rupert Alexander | 287 |
Erwin Rommel | 291 |
Lennart Torstensson | 295 |
Saddam Hussein | 298 |
Fidel Castro | 302 |
Horatio Herbert Kitchener | 306 |
Tito | 310 |
Karl Doenitz | 313 |
Kim II Sung | 317 |
David Glasgow Farragut | 320 |
Garnet Joseph Wolseley | 323 |
Chiang Kaishek | 326 |
Frederick Sleigh Roberts | 329 |
Saladin | 332 |
George Dewey | 335 |
Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Condé | 338 |
Kurt Student | 341 |
George S Patton | 345 |
Michel Ney | 349 |
Charles XII | 353 |
Thomas Cochrane | 356 |
Johann Tserclaes von Tilly | 359 |
Edmund Henry H Allenby | 362 |
PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 365 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 366 |
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