The Ultimate Warriors

By on December 29, 2009 in Everything Else


Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great was a Greek king of Macedon and was renowned as a great rebel in the history. He was born in Pella (a place in Macedon) in 356 BC and got the life span of 32 years. His real name is “Alexander III of Macedon”  and he was the only king in Greek history who really influenced the world by fighting and winning many battles. He conquered many states like Syria  in  333  BC, Egypt in 332 BC and Assyria & Babylonia in 331 BC. After winning any battles, Alexander used to slaughter the males and sell the women and children. He was enormous warrior but had cruel rules for other nations.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte was a great military and political leader of France. He was born in Corsica (Island in Southeast of France) on 15 August,1769. He acquired his early education from Corsica and then obtained the complete training of Artillery officer. After joining the Army he started campaign against the rebellions of the country and considered himself as the “First consul” of the “French First Republic”. He restricted the movement of  Europeans in France and then started to expand the country territory by attacking other nations like Prussia in Battle of Jena- Auerstedt (1806),  Russia in Battle of Coalition (1807) and Portugal with the help of Spain in 1807. His key planning and strength was that he always reached at the war point before the enemy. He was died on 5 may,1821 in the age of 51 at Long wood, Saint Helena, British Empire and buried in Paris.

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Julius Ceasar

Julius Ceasar was a grand political and military leader of Rome. He played a vital role in expand the territory of Roman Empire and converted the “Roman Republic” into “Roman Empire”. In his early age he left his country and joined the Marcus Minucius Thermus army in Asia as a military officer. Afterwards came back and initiated a civil war in the country by making political alliance with the Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus to dominate other groups and parties. He conquered Hispania, Italia, Graecia, Aegyptus and Africa.

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Hannibal

Hannibal was the great military commander of the Carthaginian Army. Carthaginian republic was included in the Greek Territory. When he was in his childhood the Rome had established their supremacy on Carthaginian, Macedon and Seleucid empire. That he couldn’t absorb and got the military training in his early childhood. He showed his presence by attending many battles with his father in the innocent age. When he got the charge of military commander he attacked on Italy and won the battles of Trebia, Trasimene and Cannae which were the Roman allies. He damaged the core strength of Rome by destroying their supporting states.

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Richard the Lion Heart

Richard the Lion Heart was the king of United Kingdom from 6 July, 1189 to 6 April, 1199. He was born on 8 September, 1157 A.D. and became king in 1189. He ruled many territories as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine and Count of Nantes. He also ended the rule of Saladin and Philips and conquered their territories.

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  • zoran

    Alexander the Third wasn t Greek,but Macedonian.His father Philip the Second concored the greek city-states and after he dies,Alexander become the king of Macedonia!

  • umair

    At the time of Alexander III, the Macedon was the northeastern part of Greek territory.

  • Thorlite

    De gamieste re malakes makedones.

  • thornton

    his male ancestors were of greek stock. the royal family were recognized as greeks, as were a few of the noble macedonian families. his (alexander’s) mother was epiran.

    honestly, i think phillip should replace alexander in the “who could kick who’s ass” historical comparisons.

  • petear

    wow you forgot the Suleiman the Magnificent. I think he did more important things than richard the lion heart or hannibal.

    source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol (House Chamber)

  • Anon

    This list is a bit Euro Centric, should have put the list as “European Ultimate Warriors” instead..

    You forgot Saladin who basically kicked Richard Lionheart ass, and also is chivalrious that he even send fresh fruit and wished him well to Richard when he was sick! And what did Richard do? By massacring thousands of muslims civilians.

    Xiang Yu, with only 8000 elite cavalry, managed to defeat the Qin army that was ten times larger than his, and ending the Qin dynasty. He destroy any way of escaping for his own army and told them to bring only 3 days of food with them knowing that either they are totally annihilated or win the war to survive.

    Ashoka, who united India and defeated his many rivals and then later on feel bad about killing.

    Yoshitsune Minamoto, who helped his brother to create the shogunate, and is also known as a brave warrior himself.

    And not to forget Genghis Khan, nuff said.