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Titus Quinctius Flamininus

Titus Quinctius Flamininus

Roman Republic

c. 229 BCE – 174 BCE (~55 years old)

Roman general and statesman who defeated Philip V of Macedon at Cynoscephalae and proclaimed the 'Freedom of the Greeks' at the Isthmian Games.

Rome, Italy

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Marcus Furius Camillus

Marcus Furius Camillus

Roman Republic

c. 446 BCE – 365 BCE (~81 years old)

Roman soldier and statesman honored as the 'Second Founder of Rome' who captured Veii, drove Brennus's Gauls from the sacked city, and reorganized the legions.

Rome, Italy

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Lucius Licinius Lucullus

Lucius Licinius Lucullus

Roman Republic

118 BCE – 56 BCE (~62 years old)

Brilliant Roman general and conqueror of the eastern kingdoms in the Third Mithridatic War, celebrated for his tactical genius and opulent luxury.

Tusculum, Italy

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Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio Africanus the Younger)

Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus

Roman Republic

185 BCE – 129 BCE (~56 years old)

Roman consul and general who commanded the final siege and destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War and subdued Numantia in Hispania.

Rome, Italy

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator

Roman Republic

c. 280 BCE – 203 BCE (~77 years old)

Roman statesman and dictator known as 'The Delayer' (Cunctator) whose strategy of attrition saved the Roman Republic from destruction by Hannibal.

Rome, Italy

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Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Roman Republic

c. 268 BCE – 208 BCE (~60 years old)

Five-time Roman consul celebrated as 'The Sword of Rome' who won the Spolia Opima, captured Syracuse after overcoming Archimedes' war engines, and fought Hannibal.

Rome, Italy

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Brasidas of Sparta

Βρασίδας

Greece

c. 460 BCE – 422 BCE (~38 years old)

Legendary Spartan general whose daring Northern Thracian campaign, oratorical brilliance, and victory at Amphipolis compelled the Peace of Nicias.

Amphipolis, Greece

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Lysander of Sparta

Λύσανδρος

Greece

c. 454 BCE – 395 BCE (~59 years old)

Spartan admiral (nauarchos) and master strategist who won the Battle of Aegospotami, forced the surrender of Athens, and ended the Peloponnesian War.

Panopeus, Greece

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Cimon of Athens

Κίμων

Greece

c. 510 BCE – c. 450 BCE (~60 years old)

Athenian general, admiral, and leader of the Delian League who shattered Persian naval power at the Battle of the Eurymedon.

Athens, Greece

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Miltiades the Younger

Μιλτιάδης

Greece

c. 550 BCE – c. 489 BCE (~61 years old)

Athenian general and strategist who devised the historic double-envelopment phalanx tactic to defeat Darius I's Persian invasion force at the Battle of Marathon.

Marathon, Greece

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Võ Nguyên Giáp

Võ Nguyên Giáp

Vietnam

25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013 (~102 years old)

Self-taught Vietnamese general and revolutionary strategist hailed as the "Red Napoleon." Defeated the French expeditionary corps at Dien Bien Phu (1954) and orchestrated the long people's war that unified Vietnam.

Hanoi, Vietnam

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Bernard Law Montgomery

United Kingdom

17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 (~89 years old)

British field marshal celebrated as "Monty." Transformed morale in the British Eighth Army, decisively defeating Erwin Rommel at the Second Battle of El Alamein, and commanding all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord in Normandy.

Isington (Hampshire), United Kingdom

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Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov

Георгий Константинович Жуков

Russia

1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974 (~78 years old)

Marshal of the Soviet Union and the premier operational architect of Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Commanded the defenses of Leningrad and Moscow, planned the encirclements at Stalingrad and Kursk, and captured Berlin in 1945.

Moscow, Russia

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George Smith Patton Jr.

George S. Patton Jr.

United States

11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945 (~60 years old)

Celebrated U.S. Army general who commanded the U.S. Third Army across France and Germany in World War II. Renowned for ruthless speed, relentless armored offensive doctrine, and the dramatic winter relief of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

Heidelberg, Germany

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Greece

19 May 1881 – 10 November 1938 (~57 years old)

Ottoman commander and founding father of the Republic of Turkey. Victorious hero of the Gallipoli Campaign (1915) who led the Turkish War of Independence, liberating the Anatolian homeland and creating a modern secular republic.

Dolmabahçe Palace (Istanbul), Turkey

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Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg

Paul von Hindenburg

Poland

2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934 (~87 years old)

German field marshal and national hero of the Battle of Tannenberg in World War I. Commanded the German Supreme Army Command alongside Erich Ludendorff and served as President of the Weimar Republic.

Neudeck (Ogrodzieniec), Poland

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Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch

France

2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929 (~78 years old)

Marshal of France and Supreme Allied Commander who coordinated French, British, American, and Belgian forces in 1918 to defeat the German spring offensives and execute the Hundred Days Offensive that won World War I.

Paris, France

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Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke

Helmuth von Moltke der Ältere

Germany

26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891 (~91 years old)

Chief of the Prussian General Staff for thirty years who pioneered the modern General Staff system, exploitation of railways and telegraphs, and decentralized "mission-type tactics" (Auftragstaktik), winning the Wars of German Unification.

Berlin, Germany

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