(4) Great Commanders of the Early Modern Era

Enlightenment Era (1700-1792)

Baji Rao (1700-1740)

John Churchill duke of Marlborough (1650-1722)

Eugene de Savoie (1663-1736)

Claude de Villars (1653-1734)

Peter the Great (1672-1725)

Charles XII of Sweden (1682-1718)

Maurice de Saxe (1696-1750)

Frederick II the Great (1712-1786)

Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705-1766)

Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717-1790)

Ferdinand of Brunswick (1721-1792)

Edward Hawke (1705-1781)

Nader Shah (1698-1747)

Ahmad Khan Abdali (1722-1772)

George Washington (1731-1799)

George Rodney (1718-1792)

Pierre Andre de Suffren (1729-1788)

Alexander Suvorov (1730-1800)

Fyodor Ushakov (1745-1817)

Tipu Sultan (1750-1799)


Napoleonic Wars & Age of Revolution (1792-1848)

Dmitry Senyavin (1763-1831)

Mikhail Barclay de Tolly (1761-1818) - A prominent Russian commander due to his campaigns in Finland (1808/09), Russia (1812), Poland and Germany (1813) and France (1814). Initially an officer serving against the Turks (1787-1792), Swedes (1788-1790), in Poland (1794) and finally against the French during the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807). He became the driving force behind the Russian military reforms after 1808 (during which he commanded the war against Sweden) and the key Russian commander in opposing Napoleon for most of 1812. He then succeeded Milkhail Kutuzov in directing the Russian effort from April 1813, as well as in 1814 and 1815.

Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher (1742-1819)

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)

Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)

Andre Massena (1758-1817)

Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult (1769-1851)

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) - 

Louis Gabriel Suchet (1770-1826)

Louis Nicolas Davout (1770-1823)

Karl von Osterreich-Teschen (1771-1847)

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766-1858)

Jose de San Martin (1778-1850)

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)

Theodoros Kolokotronis (1770-1843)

Ibrahim Pasha (1789-1848)

Shaka Zulu (1787-1828)

Zachary Taylor (1784-1850)

Winfield Scott (1786-1866)


Nationalism, Colonialism & the Industrial Era (1848-1900)

Omar Pasha (1806-1871)

Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891)

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)

Patrice de MacMahon (1808-1893)

Louis Faidherbe (1818-1889)

Amedee Courbet (1827-1885)

Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri (1808-1883)

Ivan Paskevich (1782-1856)

Konstantin von Kaufman (1818-1882)

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)

Ulysses Grant (1822-1885)

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)

David Farragut (1801-1870)

William Thomas Sampson (1840-1902)

Manuel Baquedano (1823-1897)

Saigo Takamori (1828-1877)

Yamagata Aritomo (1838-1922) - An officer from Choshu who fought during the Boshin "Revolution" (1868-1869). He was instrumental in building the Imperial Japanese Army, after the civil war, and developing Japanese military doctrine and strategy. He was one of the generals which suppressed the Satsuma Rebellion (1877) and served in multiple positions including War Minister. He commanded the First Army in Korea during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) until December of 1894 after he crossed the Yalu River into Manchuria. He came down with an illness and had to return to Japan. During the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) he played a key organizational and strategic role as Chief of General Staff.


Oyama Iwao (1842-1916)

Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934)

Charles John Napier (1786-1860)

James Bremer (1786-1850)

Hugh Gough (1779-1869)

Garnet Wolseley (1833-1913)

Frederick Roberts (1832-1914) 

Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916)