Ibbi-Sin
King of Ur, last of the Ur III dynasty
- 2004 BCFall of Ur (Sack of Ur, end of Ur III) — Ur III state under Ibbi-Sin: defeat
The Commanders
Volume II — 172names, each carried here by the battles that record them. Nothing on this page was written about a commander; every line is a battle's own entry, gathered.
6 entries areset in a second form. The book's usual line names a side and reports how the day went for it, which assumes two armed parties. Where that was not the case, the entry is written as an event instead.
The Bronze Age
Kindattu
King of Shimashki
- 2004 BCFall of Ur (Sack of Ur, end of Ur III) — Elam and Shimashki under Kindattu: victory
Thutmose III
Pharaoh and field commander · house: New Kingdom of Egypt
- 1457 BCBattle of Megiddo — New Kingdom Egypt: victory on the field, followed by a ~7-month siege to take the city
Muwatalli II
King of the Hittites
- 1274 BCBattle of Kadesh — Hittite Empire (Hatti) under Muwatalli II: inflicted a near-disaster on Egypt via ambush but failed to destroy the Egyptian army; retained control of Kad…
Ramesses II
Pharaoh and field commander · house: New Kingdom of Egypt
- 1274 BCBattle of Kadesh — New Kingdom Egypt: avoided destruction and held the field; did not capture Kadesh (indecisive)
Classical Antiquity
Sennacherib
King and field commander · house: Neo-Assyrian Empire
- 701 BCSiege of Lachish — Neo-Assyrian Empire: captured the city by assault
Cyaxares
King of the Medes
- 612 BCFall of Nineveh — Medo-Babylonian coalition (Medes under Cyaxares, Babylonians under Nabopolassar, with allied Scythians): besieged and stormed the city; destroyed Nineveh
Sin-shar-ishkun
King of Assyria
- 612 BCFall of Nineveh — Neo-Assyrian Empire under Sin-shar-ishkun: annihilated; the capital fell and the king died in the fall of the city
Miltiades the Younger
Athenian general (strategos)
- 490 BCBattle of Marathon — Athens and Plataea: victory
Themistocles
Athenian statesman and naval strategist
- 490 BCBattle of Marathon
- 480 BCBattle of Salamis — Greek city-states (Hellenic League): victory
Leonidas I
King of Sparta (Agiad dynasty); commander at Thermopylae
- 480 BCBattle of Thermopylae — Greek alliance (Sparta, led by Leonidas I): defeat
Xerxes I
King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire · house: Achaemenid Empire (Persia)
- 480 BCBattle of Thermopylae — Achaemenid Persia (Xerxes I): victory
- 480 BCBattle of Salamis — Achaemenid Empire: defeat
Epaminondas
Theban general and statesman
- 371 BCBattle of Leuctra — Thebes / Boeotian League (Epaminondas): victory
Alexander III of Macedon
King and general · house: Argead Dynasty (House of Macedon)
- 338 BCBattle of Chaeronea (338 BC) — Macedon (Philip II, with Alexander): victory
- 331 BCBattle of Gaugamela — Macedon: victory
- 326 BCBattle of the Hydaspes — Macedonian and allied forces of Alexander III: victory, but costly and not decisive of the campaign
Philip II of Macedon
King of Macedon; military reformer
- 338 BCBattle of Chaeronea (338 BC) — Macedon (Philip II, with Alexander): victory
Porus
King
- 326 BCBattle of the Hydaspes — Paurava kingdom under Porus (Puru): defeated and captured; restored to his throne as a satrap
Ashoka
Emperor
- 261 BCThe Kalinga Warvictory; Kalinga annexedThe atlas does not record this entry as a contest between commanded sides.
Bai Qi
General of the State of Qin · house: Qin Dynasty
- 260 BCBattle of Changping — State of Qin: Decisive victory
Hannibal Barca
General and statesman
- 218 BCHannibal's Crossing of the Alps — Carthage (Hannibal's field army): Crossing completed, but at crippling cost - arrived with only ~20,000 infantry and ~6,000 cavalry
- 216 BCBattle of Cannae — Carthage: victory
- 202 BCBattle of Zama — Carthage: defeat
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
General and consul
- 202 BCBattle of Zama — Roman Republic: victory
Gaius Julius Caesar
General, consul, dictator · house: Julio-Claudian dynasty
- 52 BCSiege of Alesia — Roman Republic: victory
- 48 BCBattle of Pharsalus — Caesarians (Gaius Julius Caesar): victory
Pompey the Great
Roman general and statesman; member of the First Triumvirate
- 48 BCBattle of Pharsalus — Pompeians / Optimates (Pompey the Great): defeat
Arminius
Cherusci war leader
- 9Battle of the Teutoburg Forest — Germanic tribal coalition (led by Arminius of the Cherusci): decisive victory
Publius Quinctilius Varus
Roman legate
- 9Battle of the Teutoburg Forest — Roman Empire (Publius Quinctilius Varus): annihilated
Cao Cao
Warlord, chancellor, and de facto ruler of northern China
- 208Battle of Red Cliffs — Cao Cao (northern army): Defeat
Zhuge Liang
Chancellor, regent, and military strategist of Shu Han
- 208Battle of Red Cliffs — Sun-Liu southern alliance: Decisive victory
The Medieval Age of Faith
Belisarius
General (magister militum)
- 530Battle of Dara — Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire: decisive victory
- 537Siege of Rome (537-538) — Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire: victory
Khalid ibn al-Walid
General
- 633Battle of Walaja — Rashidun Caliphate: victory
- 636Battle of the Yarmouk — Rashidun Caliphate: victory
Charles Martel
Mayor of the Palace, military leader
- 732Battle of Tours (Battle of Poitiers) — Frankish realm (Charles Martel, with Aquitanians under Odo): victory
Basil II
Emperor and field commander
- 1014Battle of Kleidion — Byzantine Empire: decisive victory
Cnut the Great
King and warlord · house: House of Gorm (Jelling Dynasty)
- 1016Battle of Assandun — Denmark: victory
William the Conqueror
Duke and king · house: House of Normandy
- 1066Battle of Hastings — Normandy: victory
Alp Arslan
Sultan and commander
- 1071Battle of Manzikert — Seljuk Empire (Alp Arslan): victory
Romanos IV Diogenes
Byzantine Emperor
- 1071Battle of Manzikert — Byzantine Empire (Romanos IV Diogenes): decisive defeat; emperor captured
Saladin
Sultan and commander
- 1187Battle of Hattin — Ayyubid Sultanate (Saladin): decisive victory
Prithviraj III
King
- 1192Second Battle of Tarain — Chahamana (Chauhan) confederacy under Prithviraj III: destroyed; Prithviraj captured and killed
Subutai
General
- 1223Battle of the Kalka River — Mongol Empire (reconnaissance-in-force): decisive victory
- 1241Battle of Mohi — Mongol Empire: victory
Baibars
Sultan and commander
- 1260Battle of Ain Jalut — Mamluk Sultanate (Qutuz, with Baybars commanding the vanguard): decisive victory
The Late-Medieval Crisis
Robert the Bruce
King and military leader
- 1314Battle of Bannockburn — Kingdom of Scotland (Robert the Bruce): decisive victory
Timur
Conqueror and ruler
- 1402Battle of Ankara — Timurid Empire (Timur / Tamerlane): decisive victory
Mehmed II
Sultan and commander
- 1453Fall of Constantinople — Ottoman Empire (Mehmed II): decisive victory
Vlad III
Voivode (prince) · house: House of Drăculești
- 1462The Night Attack at Târgoviște — Wallachia: tactical success
Henry VII
King of England
- 1485Battle of Bosworth Field — Tudor army under Henry Tudor, with French and Welsh contingents: decisive victory
Richard III
King of England
- 1485Battle of Bosworth Field — Royal army of Richard III: destroyed; the king killed on the field
The Early-Modern Age of Ambition
Hernan Cortes
Conquistador
- 1520La Noche Triste (The Night of Sorrows) — Spanish and Tlaxcalan allies: severe defeat during forced retreat
- 1520Battle of Otumba — Spanish and Tlaxcalan allies: victory
- 1521Fall (Siege) of Tenochtitlan — Spanish and indigenous allies: decisive victory
Moctezuma II
Huey Tlatoani (emperor) · house: Aztec Empire (Triple Alliance)
- 1520La Noche Triste (The Night of Sorrows)
Cuauhtemoc
Huey Tlatoani (last Aztec emperor) · house: Aztec Empire (Triple Alliance)
- 1521Fall (Siege) of Tenochtitlan — Aztec Triple Alliance: destruction of the city and capture of the emperor
Babur
Founder and first emperor of the Mughal Empire
- 1526First Battle of Panipat — Mughal (Timurid) forces of Babur: decisive victory
Atahualpa
Sapa Inca (last independent emperor) · house: Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu)
- 1532Battle of Cajamarca — Inca Empire: catastrophic defeat; emperor captured
Francisco Pizarro
Conquistador, Governor of New Castile
- 1532Battle of Cajamarca — Spanish conquistadors: decisive victory
Akbar
Emperor
- 1556Second Battle of Panipat — Mughal forces of Akbar, commanded by Bairam Khan: decisive victory
- 1576Battle of Haldighati
Bairam Khan
Regent and commander-in-chief
- 1556Second Battle of Panipat — Mughal forces of Akbar, commanded by Bairam Khan: decisive victory
Hemachandra Vikramaditya
Chief minister, then general, then emperor
- 1556Second Battle of Panipat — Forces of Hemu (Hemachandra Vikramaditya): destroyed; Hemu captured and beheaded
Aliya Rama Raya
Regent and effective ruler
- 1565Battle of Talikota — Vijayanagara Empire: annihilated; Rama Raya captured and beheaded on the field
Maharana Pratap Singh I
Maharana
- 1576Battle of Haldighati — Mewar under Maharana Pratap: withdrew; Pratap escaped wounded
Man Singh I of Amber
Rajput ruler and Mughal general
- 1576Battle of Haldighati — Mughal forces under Man Singh I of Amber: held the field
Yi Sun-sin
Admiral of the Joseon navy · house: Joseon Dynasty
- 1592Battle of Hansan Island — Joseon Korea: Decisive victory
- 1597Battle of Myeongnyang — Joseon Korea: Decisive victory
- 1598Battle of Noryang — Joseon Korea and Ming China: Decisive victory
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Daimyo and founding shogun
- 1600Battle of Sekigahara — Eastern Army (Tokugawa Ieyasu): decisive victory
Gustavus Adolphus
King of Sweden and commander-in-chief
- 1631Battle of Breitenfeld — Sweden and Electoral Saxony (Gustavus Adolphus; Saxons under John George I/Arnim): decisive victory
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Field Marshal and President of the Imperial War Council
- 1683Battle of Vienna — Holy League (Holy Roman Empire/Habsburgs + Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth): decisive victory
- 1704Battle of Blenheim — Grand Alliance (Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy): decisive victory
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Captain-General of the allied armies
- 1704Battle of Blenheim — Grand Alliance (Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy): decisive victory
Edward Thatch
Pirate commander - Queen Anne's Revenge and three consorts at P-001; sloop Adventure at P-003
- 1718Charleston Bar blockade — Thatch's squadron (Edward Thatch, alias Teach): victory
- 1718Ocracoke Inlet — Thatch's crew (Edward Thatch, alias Teach - killed): defeat
Robert Johnson
Governor, Province of South Carolina - commander of record for side 2 at P-001
- 1718Charleston Bar blockade — Province of South Carolina (Gov. Robert Johnson): defeat
Robert Maynard
Lieutenant, Royal Navy - side 1 at P-003, commanding the hired sloops Jane and Ranger
- 1718Ocracoke Inlet — Royal Navy detachment (Lt. Robert Maynard, of HMS Pearl): victory
Stede Bonnet
Pirate commander - Royal James, with Fortune and Francis; side 2 at P-002, captured
- 1718Cape Fear River (Battle of the Sandbars) — Bonnet's squadron (Maj. Stede Bonnet): defeat
William Rhett
Colonel commanding the South Carolina expedition - side 1 at P-002
- 1718Cape Fear River (Battle of the Sandbars) — South Carolina expedition (Col. William Rhett): victory
John Rackham
Pirate commander - 1 sloop; side 2 at P-004, crew captured and tried
- 1720Negril Point — Rackham's crew (John Rackham): defeat
Jonathan Barnet
Captain of the Jamaica sloop - side 1 at P-004
- 1720Negril Point — Jamaica sloop (Capt. Jonathan Barnet): victory
Bartholomew Roberts
Pirate commander - Royal Fortune, ex-Onslow, a Royal African Company frigate of ~40 guns, with consorts; side 2 at P-006
- 1722Cape Lopez, second action — Roberts's company - Royal Fortune (Bartholomew Roberts - killed): defeat
Chaloner Ogle
Captain, Royal Navy, HMS Swallow - side 1 at P-005 and P-006
- 1722Cape Lopez, first action — Royal Navy - HMS Swallow (Capt. Chaloner Ogle): victory
- 1722Cape Lopez, second action — Royal Navy - HMS Swallow (Capt. Chaloner Ogle): victory
James Skyrme
Pirate commander of the consort Ranger - side 2 at P-005, vessel taken
- 1722Cape Lopez, first action — Roberts's consort - Ranger (James Skyrme): defeat
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia and field commander
- 1757Battle of Leuthen — Kingdom of Prussia (Frederick II 'the Great'): decisive victory
Mir Jafar
Commander, then Nawab under Company protection
- 1757Battle of Plasseydefeated; Siraj fled, was captured and executedThe atlas does not record this entry as a contest between commanded sides.
Robert Clive
Company officer and Governor of Bengal
- 1757Battle of PlasseyvictoryThe atlas does not record this entry as a contest between commanded sides.
Siraj-ud-Daulah
Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
- 1757Battle of Plasseydefeated; Siraj fled, was captured and executedThe atlas does not record this entry as a contest between commanded sides.
Ahmad Shah Durrani
Shah and commander
- 1761Third Battle of Panipat — Durrani Afghan forces and Indian allies under Ahmad Shah Durrani: decisive victory
Sadashivrao Bhau
Commander-in-chief of the Maratha army
- 1761Third Battle of Panipat — Maratha confederacy: annihilated; Sadashivrao Bhau killed, his body never certainly identified
Vishwasrao
Heir to the Peshwa
- 1761Third Battle of Panipat — Maratha confederacy: annihilated; Sadashivrao Bhau killed, his body never certainly identified
Israel Putnam
Major General, Continental Army
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — American colonists: Tactical defeat; forced to withdraw after ammunition ran out
Joseph Warren
Major General (commission unexercised); physician and political leader
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — American colonists: Tactical defeat; forced to withdraw after ammunition ran out
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
General; Commander-in-Chief, North America
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — Great Britain: Costly victory; captured the ground
William Prescott
Colonel, Massachusetts militia
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — American colonists: Tactical defeat; forced to withdraw after ammunition ran out
George Washington
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army
- 1776Battle of Trenton — United States (Continental Army): Decisive victory
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — United States and France: Decisive Franco-American victory
Johann Rall
Colonel, Hessian brigade
- 1776Battle of Trenton — Hesse-Kassel (Hessian garrison, British service): Routed; garrison largely captured
Nathanael Greene
Continental Army major general; commander of the Southern Department
- 1776Battle of Trenton — United States (Continental Army): Decisive victory
- 1781Battle of Guilford Court House — United States (Continental and militia): Withdrew from the field, but inflicted crippling losses
- 1781Battle of Eutaw Springs — United States (Continental and militia): Withdrew after early success
- 1781Battle of Hobkirk's Hill — United States (Continental and militia): Withdrew from the field
- 1781Siege of Yorktown
Bernardo de Gálvez
Governor of Spanish Louisiana and commander of Spain's Gulf Coast campaign; later Viceroy of New Spain
- 1779Battle of Baton Rouge — Spain: Victory
- 1780Siege of Mobile — Spain: Victory
- 1781Siege of Pensacola — Spain (with French naval support): victory
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Lieutenant General; later Governor-General of India
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — Great Britain: Trapped and forced to surrender the army
François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse
Admiral
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — United States and France: Decisive Franco-American victory
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Lieutenant General, French expeditionary force
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — United States and France: Decisive Franco-American victory
Anthony Wayne
Major General commanding U.S. forces at Fallen Timbers
- 1794Battle of Fallen Timbers — United States (Legion of the United States): Decisive victory
The Modern Age
Arthur Wellesley
General
- 1803Battle of Assaye — British East India Company and allies under Arthur Wellesley: victory, at very heavy cost
Horatio Nelson
Vice-Admiral, Royal Navy
- 1805Battle of Trafalgar — Britain (Royal Navy): decisive victory; no ships lost
Napoleon Bonaparte
General and emperor
- 1805Battle of Austerlitz — French Empire: victory
- 1815Battle of Waterloo — French (Armee du Nord, Napoleon): army destroyed
Alexander Cochrane
Vice Admiral
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — Great Britain: Repulsed; abandoned the attack on Baltimore
George Armistead
Major, U.S. Army; commander of Fort McHenry
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — United States: Victory; British assault repelled
John Stricker
Brigadier General, Maryland militia
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — United States: Victory; British assault repelled
Robert Ross
Major General
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — Great Britain: Repulsed; abandoned the attack on Baltimore
Samuel Smith
Major General, Maryland militia; U.S. Senator
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — United States: Victory; British assault repelled
Andrew Jackson
Major general; later 7th President of the United States
- 1815Battle of New Orleans — United States: Decisive victory
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal and allied commander
- 1815Battle of Waterloo — Anglo-allied army (Wellington) + Prussian army (Blucher): decisive Coalition victory
José de San Martín
General and statesman; architect of the southern liberation campaign
- 1817Crossing of the Andes — Army of the Andes (Patriots): Successful crossing; campaign victory at Chacabuco
Simón Bolívar
Revolutionary general and statesman; supreme commander of the northern liberation campaigns
- 1819Battle of Boyacá — Patriots (Gran Colombia): Decisive victory
- 1821Battle of Carabobo — Patriots (Gran Colombia): Decisive victory
Antonio José de Sucre
General and statesman; Bolívar's chief lieutenant and victor of the decisive battle of the war
- 1824Battle of Ayacucho — Patriots (United Liberating Army): Decisive victory
Antonio López de Santa Anna
General; President of Mexico (multiple terms)
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — Mexico (Centralist Army): Victory; stormed the fort
- 1836Battle of San Jacinto — Mexico (Centralist Army): Routed; army destroyed and Santa Anna captured the next day
David Crockett
Congressman; volunteer at the Alamo
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — Republic of Texas (Texian and Tejano defenders): Annihilated; nearly all defenders killed
James Bowie
Colonel, Texian volunteers; joint commander at the Alamo
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — Republic of Texas (Texian and Tejano defenders): Annihilated; nearly all defenders killed
Sam Houston
Commander-in-chief of the Texian Army; first and third President of the Republic of Texas
- 1836Battle of San Jacinto — Republic of Texas (Texian Army): Decisive victory
William Barret Travis
Lieutenant Colonel; joint commander at the Alamo
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — Republic of Texas (Texian and Tejano defenders): Annihilated; nearly all defenders killed
Winfield Scott
General; longest-serving active-duty general in U.S. history to that point
- 1847Battle of Chapultepec — United States: Victory
John Coffee Hays
Colonel commanding the volunteer force at Second Pyramid Lake
- 1860Second Battle of Pyramid Lake — United States volunteers and Army regulars: Victory
Numaga
War leader and diplomat of the Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute · house: Northern Paiute (Numu)
- 1860First Battle of Pyramid Lake — Northern Paiute (with Bannock and Shoshone allies): Decisive victory
- 1860Second Battle of Pyramid Lake — Northern Paiute (with allies): Withdrawal/defeat
- 1860Pyramid Lake War (Paiute War) — Northern Paiute, Bannock, and Western Shoshone: Victory in the first battle; defeat in the second
William O. Ormsby
Major commanding the volunteer militia at First Pyramid Lake
- 1860First Battle of Pyramid Lake — United States settler volunteers: Routed
- 1860Second Battle of Pyramid Lake — United States volunteers and Army regulars: Victory
Winnemucca (Paiute leader)
Northern Paiute leader and war chief with influence over bands in the Pyramid Lake region; father of Sarah Winnemucca
- 1860Pyramid Lake War (Paiute War)
Irvin McDowell
Brigadier General, Union Army
- 1861First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) — United States (Union): defeat
Joseph E. Johnston
General, Confederate States Army
- 1861First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) — Confederate States: victory
P. G. T. Beauregard
General, Confederate States Army
- 1861Battle of Fort Sumter — Confederate States: victory
- 1861First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) — Confederate States: victory
- 1862Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) — Confederate States: defeat
Robert Anderson
Major, U.S. Army; commander of Fort Sumter
- 1861Battle of Fort Sumter — United States (Union): defeat (surrendered)
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Confederate lieutenant general; corps commander, Army of Northern Virginia
- 1861First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) — Confederate States: victory
- 1862Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) — Confederate States: tactical draw / strategic defeat (withdrawal)
- 1863Battle of Chancellorsville — Confederate States: victory
Albert Sidney Johnston
General, Confederate States Army
- 1862Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) — Confederate States: defeat
Daniel Harvey Hill
Major General, Confederate States Army
- 1862Battle of South Mountain — Confederate States: defeat (delaying action)
George B. McClellan
Union major general; commander, Army of the Potomac; General-in-Chief (1861-1862)
- 1862Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) — United States (Union): tactical draw / strategic victory
- 1862Battle of South Mountain — United States (Union): victory
Jesse L. Reno
Major General, Union Army
- 1862Battle of South Mountain — United States (Union): victory
Robert E. Lee
Commander, Army of Northern Virginia; General-in-Chief of Confederate forces (1865)
- 1862Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) — Confederate States: tactical draw / strategic defeat (withdrawal)
- 1862Battle of South Mountain — Confederate States: defeat (delaying action)
- 1863Battle of Gettysburg — Confederate States: Defeat
- 1863Battle of Chancellorsville — Confederate States: victory
- 1865Appomattox Campaign — Confederate States: defeat (surrendered)
Ulysses S. Grant
General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army; later 18th U.S. President
- 1862Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) — United States (Union): victory
- 1863Siege of Vicksburg — United States (Union): victory
- 1865Appomattox Campaign — United States (Union): victory
William Tecumseh Sherman
Union general; commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi
- 1862Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) — United States (Union): victory
- 1863Siege of Vicksburg — United States (Union): victory
John C. Pemberton
Lieutenant General, Confederate States Army
- 1863Siege of Vicksburg — Confederate States: defeat (surrendered)
Joseph Hooker
Major General, Union Army
- 1863Battle of Chancellorsville — United States (Union): defeat
Philip Sheridan
Major General, Union Army
- 1865Appomattox Campaign — United States (Union): victory
Chief Sieto
Leader
- 1867Battle of Infernal Caverns — Shoshone, Northern Paiute and Pit River warriors: about 15 killed; survivors abandoned the caverns and slipped away on the third day
George Crook
Brigadier General commanding a column at the Rosebud
- 1867Battle of Infernal Caverns — United States Army: captured the fortified position on the second day at heavy cost; 8 soldiers killed and 12 wounded
- 1876Battle of the Rosebud — United States Army: Checked; withdrew
Crazy Horse
Oglala Lakota war leader · house: Lakota (Tetuwan Sioux)
- 1876Battle of the Rosebud — Lakota and Northern Cheyenne: Tactical success / forced enemy withdrawal
- 1876Battle of the Little Bighorn — Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho: Decisive victory
George Armstrong Custer
Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn
- 1876Battle of the Little Bighorn — United States Army (7th Cavalry): Custer's detachment annihilated
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota holy man and political leader · house: Lakota (Tetuwan Sioux)
- 1876Battle of the Little Bighorn — Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho: Decisive victory
Sarah Winnemucca
Northern Paiute author, lecturer and advocate; U.S. Army scout and interpreter during the Bannock War
- 1878Bannock War — United States Army: Victory
James W. Forsyth
Colonel commanding the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee
- 1890Wounded Knee MassacreKilled most of the encamped bandThe atlas does not record this entry as a contest between commanded sides.
Spotted Elk (Si Tanka)
Miniconjou Lakota leader
- 1890Wounded Knee MassacreMassacredThe atlas does not record this entry as a contest between commanded sides.
Menelik II
Emperor (Negusa Nagast) of Ethiopia · house: Ethiopian Empire
- 1896Battle of Adwa — Ethiopian Empire: decisive victory
George Dewey
Admiral of the Navy (the only person ever to hold that rank)
- 1898Battle of Manila Bay — United States: Decisive victory
Alexander Samsonov
Russian general
- 1914Battle of Tannenberg — Russia (2nd Army under Samsonov): Catastrophic defeat; army largely destroyed, Samsonov died (reportedly by suicide)
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
- 1915The White War (Alpine Front) — Austria-Hungary (Kaiserjäger and mountain troops): stalemate / localized actions
- 1915Battles of the Isonzo
- 1917Battle of Caporetto (Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo) — Central Powers (Austria-Hungary and German Empire): decisive victory
Luigi Cadorna
Chief of Staff of the Royal Italian Army (1914-1917)
- 1915Battles of the Isonzo — Kingdom of Italy: minor gains at enormous cost; eleventh battle ended in exhaustion, twelfth (Caporetto) in defeat
- 1915The White War (Alpine Front) — Kingdom of Italy (Alpini): stalemate / localized actions
- 1917Battle of Caporetto (Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo) — Kingdom of Italy: decisive defeat / rout
Svetozar Boroević von Bojna
Field Marshal; commander of Austro-Hungarian forces on the Isonzo
- 1915Battles of the Isonzo — Austria-Hungary: largely successful defense
- 1917Battle of Caporetto (Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo) — Central Powers (Austria-Hungary and German Empire): decisive victory
- 1918Battle of Vittorio Veneto — Austria-Hungary: decisive defeat / collapse
Armando Diaz
Chief of Staff of the Royal Italian Army (1917-1919)
- 1918Battle of Vittorio Veneto — Kingdom of Italy (with British, French and US contingents): decisive victory
Erich von Manstein
Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall), German Army
- 1940Battle of Sedan (1940) — Germany (XIX Panzer Corps under Guderian, Army Group A): Decisive victory; Meuse crossed and bridgehead broken open
- 1942Battle of Stalingrad — Axis (Germany and allies): Decisive defeat
- 1943Battle of Kursk — Nazi Germany (Wehrmacht, Operation Citadel): offensive failed; strategic initiative lost
Heinz Guderian
Colonel General (Generaloberst); Inspector-General of Armored Troops; Chief of the Army General Staff (1944-45)
- 1940Battle of Sedan (1940) — Germany (XIX Panzer Corps under Guderian, Army Group A): Decisive victory; Meuse crossed and bridgehead broken open
- 1943Battle of Kursk — Nazi Germany (Wehrmacht, Operation Citadel): offensive failed; strategic initiative lost
Chester W. Nimitz
Fleet Admiral; Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas
- 1942Battle of Midway — United States: Decisive victory
Georgy Zhukov
Marshal of the Soviet Union; Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief
- 1942Battle of Stalingrad — Soviet Union: Decisive victory
- 1943Battle of Kursk — Soviet Union (Red Army; Central, Voronezh and Steppe Fronts): decisive strategic victory
Isoroku Yamamoto
Marshal Admiral; Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
- 1942Battle of Midway — Empire of Japan: Decisive defeat
- 1942Guadalcanal Campaign — Empire of Japan: defeat and evacuation
William F. Halsey Jr.
Fleet Admiral; Commander South Pacific Area and U.S. Third Fleet
- 1942Guadalcanal Campaign — Allies (United States, Australia, New Zealand): decisive victory
- 1944Battle of Leyte Gulf — Allies (United States, Australia): decisive victory
Bernard Montgomery
Field Marshal, British Army; commander of the Eighth Army and 21st Army Group
- 1944Normandy Landings (D-Day) — Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other Allied forces): Decisive victory; all five beachheads established and later linked
Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army; Supreme Commander Allied Powers; UN Command (Korea)
- 1944Battle of Leyte Gulf — Allies (United States, Australia): decisive victory
- 1950Battle of Inchon — United Nations Command (US-led, X Corps; commander douglas-macarthur): Decisive victory; Incheon seized, Seoul retaken shortly after
George S. Patton
General, U.S. Army; commander of the U.S. Third Army
- 1944Normandy Landings (D-Day) — Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other Allied forces): Decisive victory; all five beachheads established and later linked
Kotoku Sato
Lieutenant General, commanding 31st Division
- 1944The Battle of Kohima — Imperial Japanese Army 31st Division, with elements of the Indian National Army: defeated; the division withdrew without orders, having largely starved
Raymond A. Spruance
Admiral; Commander U.S. Fifth Fleet
- 1945Battle of Iwo Jima — United States: victory at severe cost
- 1945Battle of Okinawa — Allies (United States, United Kingdom): victory at heavy cost
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
General; commander of the Iwo Jima garrison (109th Division)
- 1945Battle of Iwo Jima — Empire of Japan: annihilation of the garrison; tactically inflicted disproportionate losses
Edward Almond
Major General, U.S. Army; commander of X Corps
- 1950Battle of Chosin Reservoir — United States / United Nations Command: successful fighting withdrawal / breakout to Hungnam
Oliver P. Smith
Major General, U.S. Marine Corps
- 1950Battle of Chosin Reservoir — United States / United Nations Command: successful fighting withdrawal / breakout to Hungnam
Song Shilun
General, People's Volunteer Army; commander of the 9th Army Group
- 1950Battle of Chosin Reservoir — People's Republic of China (People's Volunteer Army): captured the field but suffered crippling losses and failed to destroy the UN force
Vo Nguyen Giap
General; Commander-in-Chief of the People's Army of Vietnam
- 1954Battle of Dien Bien Phu — Viet Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam): Decisive victory; garrison overrun and forced to surrender
- 1968Tet Offensive — North Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (NLF): military defeat; the Viet Cong was severely degraded
- 1968Battle of Khe Sanh — North Vietnam (PAVN): withdrew; failed to overrun the base
Chu Huy Mân
General, People's Army of Vietnam
- 1965Battle of Ia Drang — North Vietnam (People's Army of Vietnam): heavy PAVN losses; both sides claimed success
Harold G. Moore
Lieutenant Colonel (later Lieutenant General), U.S. Army
- 1965Battle of Ia Drang — United States: US tactical success at LZ X-Ray; costly ambush at LZ Albany
Nguyễn Hữu An
Senior officer, People's Army of Vietnam
- 1965Battle of Ia Drang — North Vietnam (People's Army of Vietnam): heavy PAVN losses; both sides claimed success
Creighton Abrams
General; Commander, MACV (from 1968)
- 1968Tet Offensive — United States and South Vietnam (ARVN) / allies: battlefield victory; strategic/political shock
David E. Lownds
Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; commander, 26th Marines
- 1968Battle of Khe Sanh — United States and South Vietnam: base held; siege lifted by Operation Pegasus
Ngô Quang Trưởng
General, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
- 1968Battle of Hue — United States and South Vietnam (ARVN): recaptured the city after weeks of house-to-house fighting
Stanley S. Hughes
Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps
- 1968Battle of Hue — United States and South Vietnam (ARVN): recaptured the city after weeks of house-to-house fighting
Trần Văn Quang
General, People's Army of Vietnam
- 1968Battle of Hue — North Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong: driven out of the city with heavy losses
Văn Tiến Dũng
General; Chief of the General Staff, People's Army of Vietnam
- 1968Tet Offensive — North Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (NLF): military defeat; the Viet Cong was severely degraded
William Westmoreland
General; Commander, MACV
- 1968Tet Offensive — United States and South Vietnam (ARVN) / allies: battlefield victory; strategic/political shock
- 1968Battle of Khe Sanh — United States and South Vietnam: base held; siege lifted by Operation Pegasus
Colin Powell
General; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 1991Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War Air and Ground Campaign) — Coalition (United States and allies): decisive coalition victory
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
General, U.S. Army; Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command
- 1991Battle of 73 Easting — United States (2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, VII Corps; theater commander norman-schwarzkopf): Decisive one-sided victory
- 1991Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War Air and Ground Campaign) — Coalition (United States and allies): decisive coalition victory
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq; Commander-in-Chief
- 1991Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War Air and Ground Campaign) — Iraq: routed; expelled from Kuwait
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