500 Greatest Generals in History: 300 201
I created a query that looks at every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the military commander who won the battle. This video shows the 300th to 201st military commanders that won the most battles. List of battles won by general: Rules Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article Methodology: I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles: 1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as battle by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12, 000 battles 2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, SerboCroatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque,
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