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He rose from vengeance to empire, turning tribal blood feuds into the blueprint for a dynasty.
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A lone silver-armored rider carved his legend through chaos—Zhao Yun, the calm storm of a collapsing empire.
Rank - 199
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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 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
The Tang Imperial Guards lived and died as the empire’s steel conscience—glorious in its youth, decadent in its age, and always one heartbeat away from violence.
Group Rank - 189
In the dust-choked frontier where promises meant nothing and survival meant everything, the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry carved their legend by riding farther, fighting harder, and enduring longer than a nation that barely acknowledged their existence.
Group Rank - 190
The Burgundian Ordonnance Companies marched like a machine built from pride and gunpowder, only to shatter spectacularly when the future came at them with Swiss pikes and winter steel.
Group Rank - 191
The Sea Peoples were not a mystery—they were the knife that cut the Bronze Age’s throat.
Group Rank - 192
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
They moved as if the cold had carved secret truths into their bones, two brotherhoods built to appear where no one should exist and to leave before anyone realized they were there.
Group Rank - 194
A predator aristocracy on horseback, the Hunnic noble cavalry tore across late antiquity with speed, terror, and precision, unraveling empires before they could even form a shield wall.
Group Rank - 195
The Marinejegerkommandoen move through the world like a cold-water omen, leaving only the hush of their passing behind.
Group Rank - 196
Dropped into a doomed battle they didn’t start, the Polish 1st Parachute Brigade fought through smoke, chaos, and betrayal to become the fiercest ghosts of Arnhem.
Group Rank - 197
They fought like master craftsmen in a slaughterhouse, carving their legend in steel and smoke while serving a regime that was already rotting beneath their boots.
Group Rank - 198
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
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
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.
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