500 Greatest Generals in History: 200-101

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Published on May 3, 2019 2:50:03 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4u-C73CEYk

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This video shows the 200th to 101st best military commanders by battles won, according to Wikipedia.

List of battles won by general: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19gHIgCMINT6hOJnzSXuryS6tukPkXuZ1PRFYOh5OUdA/edit?usp=sharing

Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article

Methodology:
I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:

1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles

2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean

3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries :

4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states: