Introduction: Military leadership -- The ancient world. Cyrus the Great : founder of the Achaemenid Persian empire -- Alexander the Great : Macedonian conqueror of Western Asia -- Chandragupta : creator of the Mauryan empire in India -- Shi Huangdi : first emperor of China -- Hannibal : daring Carthaginian general who challenged the might of Rome -- Julius Caesar : conqueror of Gaul and dictator -- Augustus : the first emperor of Rome -- Trajan : Roman emperor who expanded the imperial domains to their greatest extent -- Belisarius : Byzantine general who conquered Italy and North Africa -- The medieval world. Charlemagne : leader of the Franks and first Holy Roman empire -- Otto the Great : German Holy Roman emperor who defeated the Magyars -- William the Conqueror : Norman invader of England -- Saladin : Muslim victor over the Crusaders -- Frederick Barbarossa : German Holy Roman emperor who died on crusade -- Chingiz Khan : fearsome Mongol leader who created the largest empire in Europe -- Timur : creator of a great central Asian empire -- Edward I : King of England who conquered Wales and campaigned in Scotland -- Robert Bruce : Scottish king who defeated the English -- Jan Žižka : Czech general who never lost a battle -- János Hunyadi : Hungarian national hero who defeated the Turks -- The age of empires and revolution. Hernando Cortés : Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs -- Francisco Pizarro : destroyer of the Inca empire -- Sultan Selim I : supreme Ottoman leader who vanquished the Mamluks of Egypt -- Süleyman the Magnificent : supreme Ottoman sultan who waged the Italian wars -- Babur : Maghal conqueror of northern India -- Akbar : builder of the Mughal empire -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi : great unifier of Japan -- Shah Abbas I : Safavid ruler tho built Iran into a great power -- Gustavus Adolphus : great Swedish commander and king during the Thirty Years' War -- Turenne : able French marshal in the age of Louis XIV -- Oliver Cromwell : victorious general in the British civil wars -- Jan Sobieski : Polish king who triumphed over the Turks at Vienna -- Peter the Great :Russian tsar who defeated the Swedes in the great northern war -- Duke of Marlborough : English victor of the Battle of Blenheim -- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia who defeated the Austrians -- Nader Shah : Iranian king and great 18-th century warrior -- Qianlong Emperor : expansionist ruler of the Qing dynasty -- George Washington : inspiring rebel commander and first American president -- Napoleon : Emperor of France and conqueror of much of Europe -- Horatio Nelson : British naval hero against France -- Duke of Wellington : British victor over Napoleon -- The modern age. Shaka Zulu : leader who forged a new force in southern Africa -- Simón Bolívar : hero of the Latin American Wars of Independence --Giuseppe Garibaldi : flamboyant Nationalist general in the Wars of Italian Unification -- Moltke the Elder : key Prussian general in the Wars of German unification -- Ulysses S. Grant : victorious Union general in the American Civil War -- Robert E. Lee : masterful Confederate commander of the army of northern Virginia -- Menelik : Ethiopian ruler who repulsed the Italian invasion -- Garnet Wolseley : key general of British imperialism -- Admiral Togo : Japanese commander who destroyed the Russian fleet -- Marshal Foch : French general and commander of Allied Forces in World War I -- Erich Ludendorff : leading German general of World War I -- Mustafa Kemal : great Turkish Nationalist leader -- Erich von Manstein : ablest of Hitler's generals -- Dwight D. Eisenhower : supreme Allied commander during World War II -- Georgy Zhukov : greatest Soviet general of World War II -- Admiral Nimitz L successful commander of American naval forces against Japan -- Vo Nguyen Giap : North Vietamese general who defeated the French and Americans