500 Greatest Generals in History: 516-401

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Published on May 31, 2019 4:04:31 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P0RFIIh2s0

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I created a query that looks at every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the military commander who won the battle.
This video shows the 516th to 401st military commanders that won the most battles.

List of battles won by general: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nq9UvvN1T52Hrgv3JFNPMhCtb6LUkUrePU0Y1dqqnOg/edit?usp=sharing

Rules
• 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: