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Ibrahim Pasha
Ibrahim Pasha

Ibrahim Pasha was an Ottoman-Egyptian general and son of Muhammad Ali, famed for his modernized army and ruthless efficiency. He played a decisive, brutal role in suppressing revolts and reshaping power in Greece, Syria, and the eastern Mediterranean during the early 19th century.
Rank - 129

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Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce

The Scottish king who turned exile, defeat, and civil war into a long, grinding campaign for independence through patience, guerrilla warfare, and ruthless resolve. His victory at Bannockburn made him a national symbol of endurance, proving that stubborn survival can outlast empires built on force alone.
Rank - 130

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Paddy Mayne
Paddy Mayne

A founding member of the SAS and one of World War II’s most feared raiders, leading audacious nighttime attacks that destroyed enemy airfields and shattered the myth of rear-area safety. Brilliant, violent, and deeply unstable, he embodied the brutal effectiveness of irregular warfare and became a lasting archetype of special forces legend.
Rank - 131

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Saigō Takamori
Saigō Takamori

Saigō Takamori helped forge modern Japan, then died trying to stop it, leading the last samurai into a hopeless stand against rifles, artillery, and the future itself. His defeat at Shiroyama ended feudal warfare and transformed a failed rebel into an immortal symbol of honor crushed by progress.
Rank - 135

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Queen Amina of Zazzau
Queen Amina of Zazzau

She turned the savannah into her empire and built walls strong enough to outlast the men who doubted her.
Rank - 136

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Arminus
Arminus

He turned Rome’s order into chaos—and the forest into a grave that still whispers.
Rank - 142

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Hari Singh Nalwa
Hari Singh Nalwa

Hari Singh Nalwa was a leading general of the Sikh Empire who secured its northwest frontier and halted repeated Afghan incursions into Punjab. Serving under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, he became a symbol of Sikh military power and frontier rule, remembered for his campaigns from Kashmir to the Khyber Pass.
Rank - 143

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John Hunyadi
John Hunyadi

John Hunyadi (c. 1407–1456) was a Hungarian military commander and crusader who repeatedly halted Ottoman expansion into Central Europe. His decisive defense of Belgrade in 1456 delayed Ottoman advances for decades and cemented his reputation as the Balkans’ last great shield.
Rank - 144

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Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan

When the walls of Seringapatam fell, he didn’t flee—he fought until the tiger stripes faded from his own blood.
Rank - 146

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Mahmud of Ghazni
Mahmud of Ghazni

Mahmud of Ghazni (c. 971–1030) was a Turkic ruler and the first major sultan, renowned for his highly mobile cavalry campaigns that projected Ghaznavid power across Central Asia and deep into the Indian subcontinent. Both a fierce military raider and a calculated patron of Persian culture, he left a legacy shaped equally by conquest, wealth extraction, and enduring historical controversy.
Rank - 147

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Tiglath-Pileser I
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

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Baldwin I of Jerusalem
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

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Georgios Karaiskakis
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

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Haji Murad
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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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the soldier-statesman who crushed an invasion at Gallipoli and then dismantled a collapsing empire to build a fiercely secular modern Turkey.
Rank - 154

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Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui

He rebuilt the Andes into an orderly machine and made the world climb with him.
Rank - 159

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Topa Inca Yupanqui
Topa Inca Yupanqui

He conquered the Andes with mathematics, sunlight, and an unreasonable sense of direction.
Rank - 160

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Yusuf ibn Tashfin
Yusuf ibn Tashfin

Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn carved an empire from the Sahara to al-Andalus with austere discipline, relentless cavalry, and a quiet ruthlessness that outlived every king who underestimated him.
Rank - 162

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Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif
Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif

Moulay Ismail ruled Morocco like a furnace with a crown, forging unity through terror, the Black Guard, and a fifty-year rei gn where mercy was the only thing he never built.
Rank - 163

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Abd el-Krim
Abd el-Krim

Abd el-Krim was the Amazigh strategist who united the Rif tribes, shattered Spain at Annual, and became a defining symbol of 20th-century anti-colonial resistance.
Rank - 171

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Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon’s life reads like a battlefield map—bold advances, scorched retreats, and a legacy carved in dust, defiance, and the fine print of history’s moral gray zone.
Rank - 187

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Khalid ibn al-Walid
Khalid ibn al-Walid

Khalid ibn al-Walid, the undefeated “Sword of God,” carved an empire from the desert with speed, faith, and a blade that never once tasted defeat.
Rank - 189

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Basil II
Basil II

Basil II, the grim accountant of empire, turned vengeance into policy and left the Balkans blind to remind the world that mercy was never in his ledger.
Rank - 192

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Dihya (al-Kahina)
Dihya (al-Kahina)

Defiant to her final breath, Dihya united the Berber tribes and turned the desert itself into a weapon against the invading Caliphate.
Rank - 193

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Lozen
Lozen

Lozen rides through the burning haze of the desert, rifle raised and eyes fixed on the horizon — a warrior, a prophet, and the last whisper of Apache defiance.
Rank - 194

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Zenobia of Palmyra
Zenobia of Palmyra

She turned a desert outpost into an empire, crowned herself against Rome, and rode into history as the queen who made rebellion look divine.
Rank - 197

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Seljuk Ghulams
Seljuk Ghulams

The Seljuk ghulams were elite slave-soldiers forged into a professional cavalry core, bound by pay, training, and proximity to power rather than blood or tribe. As a disciplined hinge of the Seljuk war machine, they delivered controlled violence that reshaped battlefields from Iran to Anatolia and left a template later empires would copy without apology.

Group Rank - 174

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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga Brigades
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga Brigades

The Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga brigades were decentralized mountain infantry formations that emerged as the dominant Kurdish fighting force during the 1991 uprising and later partnered with U.S. forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Shaped by guerrilla warfare, clan loyalty, and survival after genocide, they combined local terrain mastery with political fragmentation to secure and hold northern Iraq.

Group Rank - 176

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Kurdish Peshmerga (Barzani & Talabani Forces)
Kurdish Peshmerga (Barzani & Talabani Forces)

The Kurdish Peshmerga are the armed forces of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, rooted in guerrilla traditions that emphasize mobility, local loyalty, and survival in mountainous terrain. Historically divided along Barzani (KDP) and Talabani (PUK) party lines, they have fought external threats and internal rivals alike while remaining central to Kurdish autonomy and defense.

Group Rank - 177

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Palmach (Haganah Elite Strike Force)
Palmach (Haganah Elite Strike Force)

The elite strike force of the Haganah, formed in 1941 to wage guerrilla war through sabotage, night raids, and rapid assaults during the final years of the British Mandate in Palestine. Hardened by scarcity and constant movement, its fighters helped shape the outcome of the 1948 war and left a lasting imprint on Israel’s military culture.

Group Rank - 178

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Fatimid & Ayyubid Mamluk Cavalry
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

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Egyptian New Kingdom Chariot Corps
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

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Spanish Guerrilleros
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

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Spanish Conquistadores
Spanish Conquistadores

They advanced like a single starving organism made of steel, superstition, and the certainty that the world existed only to be taken.

Group Rank - 193

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THE SOLOMONIC KNIGHTS
THE SOLOMONIC KNIGHTS

The Solomonic Knights fought for seven centuries with blades, faith, and terrifying resolve, carving Ethiopia’s destiny into the highlands one battlefield at a time.

Group Rank - 199

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Irish Ranger Wing / SAS in Ulster
Irish Ranger Wing / SAS in Ulster

In the end, they were the men who made the darkness blink first. Not knights, not villains—just professionals in a dirty century, paid to make silence possible again.

Group Rank - 200

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