History’s biggest Badasses

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Ark of Heroes & Martyrs

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Smedley D. Butler

Smedley D. Butler was a two-time Medal of Honor–winning U.S. Marine who spent decades fighting America’s overseas wars during the age of imperial expansion. After retiring, he became one of the nation’s fiercest critics of war profiteering, condemning the very system that had made him famous.
Rank - 148

Tiglath-Pileser I

Tiglath-Pileser I was an Assyrian king of the 12th century BCE who expanded his empire through relentless military campaigns and the calculated use of terror as state policy. His meticulously recorded conquests turned violence into propaganda and set the template for later Assyrian imperial power.
Rank - 149

Baldwin I of Jerusalem

Baldwin I of Jerusalem was the first king of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, a hard-edged Frankish warlord who turned conquest into governance. He secured and expanded the kingdom through relentless warfare, political pragmatism, and a clear-eyed understanding that survival mattered more than sanctity.
Rank - 150

Georgios Karaiskakis

Greek revolutionary commander of the War of Independence, famed for ruthless guerrilla tactics, obscene candor, and battlefield brilliance. A klepht turned national hero who fought the Ottoman Empire with ambushes, audacity, and a terminal disregard for authority.
Rank - 151

John III Sobieski

John III Sobieski was the Polish king who thundered downhill at Vienna and changed Europe’s fate in a single charge.
Rank - 152

Haji Murad

Mountain warlord, double-crossing survivor, and nightmare of the Russian Empire. He fought for faith, power, and family in that order—then died doing all three at once, proving the Caucasus never belonged to anyone who wanted it neatly.
Rank - 153

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Fatimid & Ayyubid Mamluk Cavalry

A professional cavalry brotherhood forged from enslaved youths, the Fatimid and Ayyubid Mamluk horsemen mastered discipline, mobility, and shock warfare to become the decisive military force of medieval Egypt and Syria.

Group Rank - 180

French Fusiliers Marins

The French Fusiliers Marins are naval infantry trained to fight ashore with the discipline of sailors, the endurance of infantry, and a collective refusal to break once committed.

Group Rank - 181

The Teutonic Knights

The Teutonic Knights were a medieval military order that fused monastic discipline with state-building warfare, conquering and ruling large parts of the Baltic through crusade, colonization, and fortified power.

Group Rank - 182

Egyptian New Kingdom Chariot Corps

The New Kingdom chariot corps turned speed into a weapon, using disciplined coordination and relentless mobility to carry Egyptian power far beyond the Nile.

Group Rank - 183

The Byzantine Cataphractoi

A disciplined wall of armored horsemen advances with relentless precision, embodying the Byzantine Empire’s doctrine of patience, weight, and inevitable force on the battlefield.

Group Rank - 184

Dutch States Army (Maurician Drill)

A brotherhood forged in revolt, the Dutch States Army turned geometry, discipline, and relentless volleys into the weapon that broke the old world’s battlefield logic.e.

Group Rank - 185

Spanish Guerrilleros

A brotherhood of Spanish Guerrilleros rises from the hills and hollows of Iberia to bleed an empire one ambush at a time.

Group Rank - 186

Russian Grenadiers

Russian Grenadiers advanced like a moving wall of frostbitten resolve, breaking armies through sheer inevitability long after the grenades themselves stopped mattering.

Group Rank - 187

The Tagmata

The Tagmata rode like a disciplined storm loosed from the palace gates, a brotherhood of armored precision that broke rebellions, crushed invasions, and outlived the emperors they served.

Group Rank - 188

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— Martha Stewart, in a tone that made her publicist nervous

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— Donald J. Trump, inventing a new entry called “Bone Spurs of Destiny”

“Reading the Warrior Index is like watching evolution lose its patience. So many apex predators… and not a single one learned manners.”
— Sir David Attenborough, whispering from the safety of a bunker

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— Vladimir Putin, while shirtless and misunderstood

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— The Dalai Lama, probably kidding (probably)