100 Most Powerful Militaries of All Time

This video shows the countries that have won the most battles in history, as documented by Wikipedia. List of battles won by country: Sequence and location of battles: Rules Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article Each country can only have 1 predecessor state at the same time (eg. the UK s predecessor is England, but not Scotland) 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, Pol