Roy Benavidez was a U.S. Army Special Forces medic who, in May 1968, fought for six hours while grievously wounded to rescue surrounded comrades in Vietnam.
His actions redefined battlefield courage, turning sheer willpower and self-sacrifice into living legend.
Rank - 127
Albert Jacka was an Australian soldier and the first from his nation to receive the Victoria Cross in World War I for recapturing a trench at Gallipoli in 1915. He survived extraordinary frontline violence only to die young in peacetime, his legend growing larger as his body finally gave out.
Rank - 128
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
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
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
A British Army officer in World War II who went into combat armed with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes, turning audacity and spectacle into battlefield weapons. He became legendary for leading commando raids and capturing enemy soldiers through sheer nerve in an age dominated by guns, tanks, and artillery.
Rank - 132
A brilliant guerrilla commander who fought to restore imperial rule in medieval Japan. He became a legend by obeying a hopeless order and dying at Minatogawa, immortalized as the embodiment of samurai loyalty.
Rank - 133
The Viking who died in a snake pit but lived forever in fear, fire, and legend.
Rank - 134
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
U.S. Army officer whose calm, uncompromising leadership at the Battle of Ia Drang defined modern airmobile warfare and the brutal reality of command under fire.
Rank - 139
He turned Rome’s order into chaos—and the forest into a grave that still whispers.
Rank - 142
Lê Lợi (1385–1433) was a Vietnamese patriot-king who led the Lam Sơn uprising and successfully expelled Ming Chinese rule from Vietnam in the early 15th century. He founded the Later Lê dynasty, securing Vietnamese independence and shaping the nation’s political identity for centuries.
Rank - 145
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
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
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
He rose from vengeance to empire, turning tribal blood feuds into the blueprint for a dynasty.
Rank - 161
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
Askia Muhammad I rose from seasoned commander to empire-shaping monarch, forging the largest realm in West African history through ruthless discipline, political precision, and relentless conquest.
Rank - 164
Vlad III Țepeș turned a bleeding borderland into a kingdom defended by terror, crafting a legacy where strategy and brutality became the same blade.
Rank - 168
Banda Singh Bahadur was a fearless Sikh revolutionary who rose from ascetic origins to lead a populist uprising that shattered Mughal power and redefined resistance in 18th-century India.
Rank - 170
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
A walking catalogue of injuries, Adrian Carton de Wiart charged through the twentieth century’s worst battles with the attitude of a man personally offended by mortality.
Rank - 175
Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts was the ruthless, impeccably dressed Welsh pirate who terrorized the Atlantic before dying in a blaze of cannon fire in 1722.
Rank - 178
Otto Skorzeny (1908–1975) was an Austrian SS commando famed for his audacious World War II special operations.
Rank - 179
Che Guevara was an Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla commander who became both a symbol of global rebellion and a cautionary tale of how conviction can burn a man alive from the inside out.
Rank - 181
In the steaming chaos of East Africa, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck fought the entire British Empire to a standstill with nothing but mosquitoes, discipline, and pure Prussian spite.
Rank - 185
He died on his feet so Ireland wouldn’t have to—but she did anyway, again and again, just to keep him company.
Rank - 190
Defiant to her final breath, Dihya united the Berber tribes and turned the desert itself into a weapon against the invading Caliphate.
Rank - 193
The Escadrille Lafayette was a World War I fighter squadron formed in 1916 by American volunteer pilots flying for France before the United States formally entered the war. Celebrated as both a combat unit and a propaganda symbol, it helped shape early air combat doctrine while cementing the myth of the fighter pilot as a modern warrior.
Group Rank - 175
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Francis Pegahmagabow was a quiet Ojibwe sniper who turned World War I’s chaos into a disciplined ledger of survival and fear. He came home decorated, unheard, and spent the rest of his life fighting a country that loved his kills more than his voice.
Rank - 126