John III Sobieski was the Polish king who thundered downhill at Vienna and changed Europe’s fate in a single charge.
Rank - 152
He rebuilt the Andes into an orderly machine and made the world climb with him.
Rank - 159
He conquered the Andes with mathematics, sunlight, and an unreasonable sense of direction.
Rank - 160
Blind, defiant, and tethered to his men by reins, John of Bohemia spurred his horse straight into the storm of arrows—because dying blind in battle still beat living to see chivalry die.
Rank - 182
A teenage peasant turned holy warlord, Joan of Arc burned her way from battlefield glory to martyrdom and sainthood.
Rank - 186
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
Pyrrhus of Epirus won battles so costly they broke his empire, turning his name into the eternal warning that victory can be the most elegant form of defeat.
Rank - 191
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
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
A Thracian slave turned gladiator who made Rome bleed before dying on his feet.
Rank - 195
Artemisia I of Caria led her boat through the chaos of Salamis, proving that cunning could strike harder than any bronze ram.
Rank - 196
Vercingetorix burned his world to save it—and when the ashes settled, even Caesar couldn’t put out the legend.
Rank - 198
A lone silver-armored rider carved his legend through chaos—Zhao Yun, the calm storm of a collapsing empire.
Rank - 199
Boudica, the fire-haired queen of the Iceni, rose from humiliation to torch Roman Britain in a rebellion that turned vengeance into legend.
Rank - 201
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
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