100 Greatest Generals in History

This video shows the 100 generals that have won the most battles in history (according to Wikipedia). To make that video, I created a query that searches every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the general that won the battle. List of battles won by general: Methodology: 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