Ibbi-Sin
King of Ur, last of the Ur III dynasty
- 2004 BCFall of Ur (Sack of Ur, end of Ur III) — Ur III state under Ibbi-Sin: defeat
The Commanders
Volume II — 135names, each carried here by the battles that record them. Nothing on this page was written about a commander; every line is a battle's own entry, gathered.
classical-antiquity
Kindattu
King of Shimashki
- 2004 BCFall of Ur (Sack of Ur, end of Ur III) — Elam and Shimashki under Kindattu: victory
Thutmose III
Pharaoh and field commander · house: New Kingdom of Egypt
- 1457 BCBattle of Megiddo — New Kingdom Egypt: victory on the field, followed by a ~7-month siege to take the city
Ramesses II
Pharaoh and field commander · house: New Kingdom of Egypt
- 1274 BCBattle of Kadesh — New Kingdom Egypt: avoided destruction and held the field; did not capture Kadesh (indecisive)
Sennacherib
King and field commander · house: Neo-Assyrian Empire
- 701 BCSiege of Lachish — Neo-Assyrian Empire: captured the city by assault
Miltiades the Younger
Athenian general (strategos)
- 490 BCBattle of Marathon — Athens and Plataea: victory
Themistocles
Athenian statesman and naval strategist
- 490 BCBattle of Marathon
- 480 BCBattle of Salamis — Greek city-states (Hellenic League): victory
Leonidas I
King of Sparta (Agiad dynasty); commander at Thermopylae
- 480 BCBattle of Thermopylae — Greek alliance (Sparta, led by Leonidas I): defeat
Xerxes I
King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire · house: Achaemenid Empire (Persia)
- 480 BCBattle of Thermopylae — Achaemenid Persia (Xerxes I): victory
- 480 BCBattle of Salamis — Achaemenid Empire: defeat
Epaminondas
Theban general and statesman
- 371 BCBattle of Leuctra — Thebes / Boeotian League (Epaminondas): victory
Classical antiquity
Alexander III of Macedon
King and general · house: Argead Dynasty (House of Macedon)
- 338 BCBattle of Chaeronea (338 BC) — Macedon (Philip II, with Alexander): victory
- 331 BCBattle of Gaugamela — Macedon: victory
classical-antiquity
Philip II of Macedon
King of Macedon; military reformer
- 338 BCBattle of Chaeronea (338 BC) — Macedon (Philip II, with Alexander): victory
Bai Qi
General of the State of Qin · house: Qin Dynasty
- 260 BCBattle of Changping — State of Qin: Decisive victory
Classical antiquity
Hannibal Barca
General and statesman
- 218 BCHannibal's Crossing of the Alps — Carthage (Hannibal's field army): Crossing completed, but at crippling cost - arrived with only ~20,000 infantry and ~6,000 cavalry
- 216 BCBattle of Cannae — Carthage: victory
- 202 BCBattle of Zama — Carthage: defeat
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
General and consul
- 202 BCBattle of Zama — Roman Republic: victory
Gaius Julius Caesar
General, consul, dictator · house: Julio-Claudian dynasty
- 52 BCSiege of Alesia — Roman Republic: victory
- 48 BCBattle of Pharsalus — Caesarians (Gaius Julius Caesar): victory
classical-antiquity
Pompey the Great
Roman general and statesman; member of the First Triumvirate
- 48 BCBattle of Pharsalus — Pompeians / Optimates (Pompey the Great): defeat
Cao Cao
Warlord, chancellor, and de facto ruler of northern China
- 208Battle of Red Cliffs — Cao Cao (northern army): Defeat
Zhuge Liang
Chancellor, regent, and military strategist of Shu Han
- 208Battle of Red Cliffs — Sun-Liu southern alliance: Decisive victory
medieval-age-of-faith
Belisarius
General (magister militum)
- 530Battle of Dara — Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire: decisive victory
- 537Siege of Rome (537-538) — Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire: victory
Early medieval
Khalid ibn al-Walid
General
- 633Battle of Walaja — Rashidun Caliphate: victory
- 636Battle of the Yarmouk — Rashidun Caliphate: victory
medieval-age-of-faith
Charles Martel
Mayor of the Palace, military leader
- 732Battle of Tours (Battle of Poitiers) — Frankish realm (Charles Martel, with Aquitanians under Odo): victory
Basil II
Emperor and field commander
- 1014Battle of Kleidion — Byzantine Empire: decisive victory
High medieval
Cnut the Great
King and warlord · house: House of Gorm (Jelling Dynasty)
- 1016Battle of Assandun — Denmark: victory
William the Conqueror
Duke and king · house: House of Normandy
- 1066Battle of Hastings — Normandy: victory
medieval-age-of-faith
Alp Arslan
Sultan and commander
- 1071Battle of Manzikert — Byzantine Empire (Romanos IV Diogenes): decisive defeat; emperor captured
Saladin
Sultan and commander
- 1187Battle of Hattin — Ayyubid Sultanate (Saladin): decisive victory
High medieval
Subutai
General
- 1223Battle of the Kalka River — Mongol Empire (reconnaissance-in-force): decisive victory
- 1241Battle of Mohi — Mongol Empire: victory
medieval-age-of-faith
Baibars
Sultan and commander
- 1260Battle of Ain Jalut — Mamluk Sultanate (Qutuz, with Baybars commanding the vanguard): decisive victory
late-medieval-crisis
Robert the Bruce
King and military leader
- 1314Battle of Bannockburn — Kingdom of Scotland (Robert the Bruce): decisive victory
Timur
Conqueror and ruler
- 1402Battle of Ankara — Timurid Empire (Timur / Tamerlane): decisive victory
Mehmed II
Sultan and commander
- 1453Fall of Constantinople — Ottoman Empire (Mehmed II): decisive victory
Late medieval
Vlad III
Voivode (prince) · house: House of Drăculești
- 1462The Night Attack at Târgoviște — Wallachia: tactical success
early-modern-ambition
Hernan Cortes
Conquistador
- 1520La Noche Triste (The Night of Sorrows) — Spanish and Tlaxcalan allies: severe defeat during forced retreat
- 1520Battle of Otumba — Spanish and Tlaxcalan allies: victory
- 1521Fall (Siege) of Tenochtitlan — Spanish and indigenous allies: decisive victory
late-medieval-crisis
Moctezuma II
Huey Tlatoani (emperor) · house: Aztec Empire (Triple Alliance)
- 1520La Noche Triste (The Night of Sorrows)
early-modern-ambition
Cuauhtemoc
Huey Tlatoani (last Aztec emperor) · house: Aztec Empire (Triple Alliance)
- 1521Fall (Siege) of Tenochtitlan — Aztec Triple Alliance: destruction of the city and capture of the emperor
Babur
Founder and first emperor of the Mughal Empire
- 1526First Battle of Panipat — Mughal (Timurid) forces of Babur: decisive victory
Atahualpa
Sapa Inca (last independent emperor) · house: Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu)
- 1532Battle of Cajamarca — Inca Empire: catastrophic defeat; emperor captured
Francisco Pizarro
Conquistador, Governor of New Castile
- 1532Battle of Cajamarca — Spanish conquistadors: decisive victory
Yi Sun-sin
Admiral of the Joseon navy · house: Joseon Dynasty
- 1592Battle of Hansan Island — Joseon Korea: Decisive victory
- 1597Battle of Myeongnyang — Joseon Korea: Decisive victory
- 1598Battle of Noryang — Joseon Korea and Ming China: Decisive victory
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Daimyo and founding shogun
- 1600Battle of Sekigahara — Eastern Army (Tokugawa Ieyasu): decisive victory
Gustavus Adolphus
King of Sweden and commander-in-chief
- 1631Battle of Breitenfeld — Sweden and Electoral Saxony (Gustavus Adolphus; Saxons under John George I/Arnim): decisive victory
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Field Marshal and President of the Imperial War Council
- 1683Battle of Vienna — Holy League (Holy Roman Empire/Habsburgs + Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth): decisive victory
- 1704Battle of Blenheim — Grand Alliance (Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy): decisive victory
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Captain-General of the allied armies
- 1704Battle of Blenheim — Grand Alliance (Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy): decisive victory
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia and field commander
- 1757Battle of Leuthen — Kingdom of Prussia (Frederick II 'the Great'): decisive victory
American Revolution
Israel Putnam
Major General, Continental Army
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — American colonists: Tactical defeat; forced to withdraw after ammunition ran out
Joseph Warren
Major General (commission unexercised); physician and political leader
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — American colonists: Tactical defeat; forced to withdraw after ammunition ran out
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
General; Commander-in-Chief, North America
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — Great Britain: Costly victory; captured the ground
William Prescott
Colonel, Massachusetts militia
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — American colonists: Tactical defeat; forced to withdraw after ammunition ran out
early-modern-ambition
George Washington
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army
- 1776Battle of Trenton — United States (Continental Army): Decisive victory
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — United States and France: Decisive Franco-American victory
American Revolution
Johann Rall
Colonel, Hessian brigade
- 1776Battle of Trenton — Hesse-Kassel (Hessian garrison, British service): Routed; garrison largely captured
early-modern-ambition
Nathanael Greene
Continental Army major general; commander of the Southern Department
- 1776Battle of Trenton — United States (Continental Army): Decisive victory
- 1781Battle of Guilford Court House — United States (Continental and militia): Withdrew from the field, but inflicted crippling losses
- 1781Battle of Eutaw Springs — United States (Continental and militia): Withdrew after early success
- 1781Battle of Hobkirk's Hill — United States (Continental and militia): Withdrew from the field
- 1781Siege of Yorktown
Bernardo de Gálvez
Governor of Spanish Louisiana and commander of Spain's Gulf Coast campaign; later Viceroy of New Spain
- 1779Battle of Baton Rouge — Spain: Victory
- 1780Siege of Mobile — Spain: Victory
- 1781Siege of Pensacola — Spain (with French naval support): victory
American Revolution
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Lieutenant General; later Governor-General of India
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — Great Britain: Trapped and forced to surrender the army
François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse
Admiral
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — United States and France: Decisive Franco-American victory
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Lieutenant General, French expeditionary force
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — United States and France: Decisive Franco-American victory
modern-age
Anthony Wayne
Major General commanding U.S. forces at Fallen Timbers
- 1794Battle of Fallen Timbers — United States (Legion of the United States): Decisive victory
early-modern-ambition
Horatio Nelson
Vice-Admiral, Royal Navy
- 1805Battle of Trafalgar — Britain (Royal Navy): decisive victory; no ships lost
Early modern
Napoleon Bonaparte
General and emperor
- 1805Battle of Austerlitz — French Empire: victory
- 1815Battle of Waterloo — French (Armee du Nord, Napoleon): army destroyed
War of 1812
Alexander Cochrane
Vice Admiral
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — Great Britain: Repulsed; abandoned the attack on Baltimore
George Armistead
Major, U.S. Army; commander of Fort McHenry
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — United States: Victory; British assault repelled
John Stricker
Brigadier General, Maryland militia
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — United States: Victory; British assault repelled
Robert Ross
Major General
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — Great Britain: Repulsed; abandoned the attack on Baltimore
Samuel Smith
Major General, Maryland militia; U.S. Senator
- 1814Battle of Baltimore — United States: Victory; British assault repelled
modern-age
Andrew Jackson
Major general; later 7th President of the United States
- 1815Battle of New Orleans — United States: Decisive victory
early-modern-ambition
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal and allied commander
- 1815Battle of Waterloo — Anglo-allied army (Wellington) + Prussian army (Blucher): decisive Coalition victory
modern-age
José de San Martín
General and statesman; architect of the southern liberation campaign
- 1817Crossing of the Andes — Army of the Andes (Patriots): Successful crossing; campaign victory at Chacabuco
Simón Bolívar
Revolutionary general and statesman; supreme commander of the northern liberation campaigns
- 1819Battle of Boyacá — Patriots (Gran Colombia): Decisive victory
- 1821Battle of Carabobo — Patriots (Gran Colombia): Decisive victory
Antonio José de Sucre
General and statesman; Bolívar's chief lieutenant and victor of the decisive battle of the war
- 1824Battle of Ayacucho — Patriots (United Liberating Army): Decisive victory
Texas Revolution / Mexican–American War
Antonio López de Santa Anna
General; President of Mexico (multiple terms)
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — Mexico (Centralist Army): Victory; stormed the fort
- 1836Battle of San Jacinto — Mexico (Centralist Army): Routed; army destroyed and Santa Anna captured the next day
Texas Revolution
David Crockett
Congressman; volunteer at the Alamo
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — Republic of Texas (Texian and Tejano defenders): Annihilated; nearly all defenders killed
James Bowie
Colonel, Texian volunteers; joint commander at the Alamo
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — Republic of Texas (Texian and Tejano defenders): Annihilated; nearly all defenders killed
modern-age
Sam Houston
Commander-in-chief of the Texian Army; first and third President of the Republic of Texas
- 1836Battle of San Jacinto — Republic of Texas (Texian Army): Decisive victory
Texas Revolution
William Barret Travis
Lieutenant Colonel; joint commander at the Alamo
- 1836Battle of the Alamo — Republic of Texas (Texian and Tejano defenders): Annihilated; nearly all defenders killed
modern-age
Winfield Scott
General; longest-serving active-duty general in U.S. history to that point
- 1847Battle of Chapultepec — United States: Victory
John Coffee Hays
Colonel commanding the volunteer force at Second Pyramid Lake
- 1860Second Battle of Pyramid Lake — United States volunteers and Army regulars: Victory
Numaga
War leader and diplomat of the Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute · house: Northern Paiute (Numu)
- 1860First Battle of Pyramid Lake — Northern Paiute (with Bannock and Shoshone allies): Decisive victory
- 1860Second Battle of Pyramid Lake — Northern Paiute (with allies): Withdrawal/defeat
- 1860Pyramid Lake War (Paiute War) — Northern Paiute, Bannock, and Western Shoshone: Victory in the first battle; defeat in the second
William O. Ormsby
Major commanding the volunteer militia at First Pyramid Lake
- 1860First Battle of Pyramid Lake — United States settler volunteers: Routed
- 1860Second Battle of Pyramid Lake — United States volunteers and Army regulars: Victory
Winnemucca (Paiute leader)
Northern Paiute leader and war chief with influence over bands in the Pyramid Lake region; father of Sarah Winnemucca
- 1860Pyramid Lake War (Paiute War)
American Civil War
Irvin McDowell
Brigadier General, Union Army
- 1861First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) — United States (Union): defeat
Joseph E. Johnston
General, Confederate States Army
- 1861First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) — Confederate States: victory
P. G. T. Beauregard
General, Confederate States Army
- 1861Battle of Fort Sumter — Confederate States: victory
- 1861First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) — Confederate States: victory
- 1862Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) — Confederate States: defeat
Robert Anderson
Major, U.S. Army; commander of Fort Sumter
- 1861Battle of Fort Sumter — United States (Union): defeat (surrendered)
modern-age
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Confederate lieutenant general; corps commander, Army of Northern Virginia
- 1861First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) — Confederate States: victory
- 1862Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) — Confederate States: tactical draw / strategic defeat (withdrawal)
- 1863Battle of Chancellorsville — Confederate States: victory
American Civil War
Albert Sidney Johnston
General, Confederate States Army
- 1862Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) — Confederate States: defeat
Daniel Harvey Hill
Major General, Confederate States Army
- 1862Battle of South Mountain — Confederate States: defeat (delaying action)
modern-age
George B. McClellan
Union major general; commander, Army of the Potomac; General-in-Chief (1861-1862)
- 1862Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) — United States (Union): tactical draw / strategic victory
- 1862Battle of South Mountain — United States (Union): victory
American Civil War
Jesse L. Reno
Major General, Union Army
- 1862Battle of South Mountain — United States (Union): victory
modern-age
Robert E. Lee
Commander, Army of Northern Virginia; General-in-Chief of Confederate forces (1865)
- 1862Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) — Confederate States: tactical draw / strategic defeat (withdrawal)
- 1862Battle of South Mountain — Confederate States: defeat (delaying action)
- 1863Battle of Gettysburg — Confederate States: Defeat
- 1863Battle of Chancellorsville — Confederate States: victory
- 1865Appomattox Campaign — Confederate States: defeat (surrendered)
Ulysses S. Grant
General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army; later 18th U.S. President
- 1862Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) — United States (Union): victory
- 1863Siege of Vicksburg — United States (Union): victory
- 1865Appomattox Campaign — United States (Union): victory
William Tecumseh Sherman
Union general; commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi
- 1862Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) — United States (Union): victory
- 1863Siege of Vicksburg — United States (Union): victory
American Civil War
John C. Pemberton
Lieutenant General, Confederate States Army
- 1863Siege of Vicksburg — Confederate States: defeat (surrendered)
Joseph Hooker
Major General, Union Army
- 1863Battle of Chancellorsville — United States (Union): defeat
Philip Sheridan
Major General, Union Army
- 1865Appomattox Campaign — United States (Union): victory
American Indian Wars
Chief Sieto
Leader
- 1867Battle of Infernal Caverns — Shoshone, Northern Paiute and Pit River warriors: about 15 killed; survivors abandoned the caverns and slipped away on the third day
modern-age
George Crook
Brigadier General commanding a column at the Rosebud
- 1867Battle of Infernal Caverns — United States Army: captured the fortified position on the second day at heavy cost; 8 soldiers killed and 12 wounded
- 1876Battle of the Rosebud — United States Army: Checked; withdrew
Crazy Horse
Oglala Lakota war leader · house: Lakota (Tetuwan Sioux)
- 1876Battle of the Rosebud — Lakota and Northern Cheyenne: Tactical success / forced enemy withdrawal
- 1876Battle of the Little Bighorn — Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho: Decisive victory
George Armstrong Custer
Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn
- 1876Battle of the Little Bighorn — United States Army (7th Cavalry): Custer's detachment annihilated
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota holy man and political leader · house: Lakota (Tetuwan Sioux)
- 1876Battle of the Little Bighorn — Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho: Decisive victory
Sarah Winnemucca
Northern Paiute author, lecturer and advocate; U.S. Army scout and interpreter during the Bannock War
- 1878Bannock War — United States Army: Victory
James W. Forsyth
Colonel commanding the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee
- 1890Wounded Knee Massacre — United States Army (7th Cavalry): Killed most of the encamped band
Menelik II
Emperor (Negusa Nagast) of Ethiopia · house: Ethiopian Empire
- 1896Battle of Adwa — Ethiopian Empire: decisive victory
George Dewey
Admiral of the Navy (the only person ever to hold that rank)
- 1898Battle of Manila Bay — United States: Decisive victory
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
- 1915The White War (Alpine Front) — Austria-Hungary (Kaiserjäger and mountain troops): stalemate / localized actions
- 1915Battles of the Isonzo
- 1917Battle of Caporetto (Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo) — Central Powers (Austria-Hungary and German Empire): decisive victory
Luigi Cadorna
Chief of Staff of the Royal Italian Army (1914-1917)
- 1915Battles of the Isonzo — Kingdom of Italy: minor gains at enormous cost; eleventh battle ended in exhaustion, twelfth (Caporetto) in defeat
- 1915The White War (Alpine Front) — Kingdom of Italy (Alpini): stalemate / localized actions
- 1917Battle of Caporetto (Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo) — Kingdom of Italy: decisive defeat / rout
Svetozar Boroević von Bojna
Field Marshal; commander of Austro-Hungarian forces on the Isonzo
- 1915Battles of the Isonzo — Austria-Hungary: largely successful defense
- 1917Battle of Caporetto (Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo) — Central Powers (Austria-Hungary and German Empire): decisive victory
- 1918Battle of Vittorio Veneto — Austria-Hungary: decisive defeat / collapse
Armando Diaz
Chief of Staff of the Royal Italian Army (1917-1919)
- 1918Battle of Vittorio Veneto — Kingdom of Italy (with British, French and US contingents): decisive victory
Erich von Manstein
Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall), German Army
- 1940Battle of Sedan (1940) — Germany (XIX Panzer Corps under Guderian, Army Group A): Decisive victory; Meuse crossed and bridgehead broken open
- 1942Battle of Stalingrad — Axis (Germany and allies): Decisive defeat
- 1943Battle of Kursk — Nazi Germany (Wehrmacht, Operation Citadel): offensive failed; strategic initiative lost
Heinz Guderian
Colonel General (Generaloberst); Inspector-General of Armored Troops; Chief of the Army General Staff (1944-45)
- 1940Battle of Sedan (1940) — Germany (XIX Panzer Corps under Guderian, Army Group A): Decisive victory; Meuse crossed and bridgehead broken open
- 1943Battle of Kursk — Nazi Germany (Wehrmacht, Operation Citadel): offensive failed; strategic initiative lost
Chester W. Nimitz
Fleet Admiral; Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas
- 1942Battle of Midway — United States: Decisive victory
Georgy Zhukov
Marshal of the Soviet Union; Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief
- 1942Battle of Stalingrad — Soviet Union: Decisive victory
- 1943Battle of Kursk — Soviet Union (Red Army; Central, Voronezh and Steppe Fronts): decisive strategic victory
Isoroku Yamamoto
Marshal Admiral; Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
- 1942Battle of Midway — Empire of Japan: Decisive defeat
- 1942Guadalcanal Campaign — Empire of Japan: defeat and evacuation
William F. Halsey Jr.
Fleet Admiral; Commander South Pacific Area and U.S. Third Fleet
- 1942Guadalcanal Campaign — Allies (United States, Australia, New Zealand): decisive victory
- 1944Battle of Leyte Gulf — Allies (United States, Australia): decisive victory
Bernard Montgomery
Field Marshal, British Army; commander of the Eighth Army and 21st Army Group
- 1944Normandy Landings (D-Day) — Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other Allied forces): Decisive victory; all five beachheads established and later linked
Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army; Supreme Commander Allied Powers; UN Command (Korea)
- 1944Battle of Leyte Gulf — Allies (United States, Australia): decisive victory
- 1950Battle of Inchon — United Nations Command (US-led, X Corps; commander douglas-macarthur): Decisive victory; Incheon seized, Seoul retaken shortly after
George S. Patton
General, U.S. Army; commander of the U.S. Third Army
- 1944Normandy Landings (D-Day) — Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other Allied forces): Decisive victory; all five beachheads established and later linked
Raymond A. Spruance
Admiral; Commander U.S. Fifth Fleet
- 1945Battle of Iwo Jima — United States: victory at severe cost
- 1945Battle of Okinawa — Allies (United States, United Kingdom): victory at heavy cost
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
General; commander of the Iwo Jima garrison (109th Division)
- 1945Battle of Iwo Jima — Empire of Japan: annihilation of the garrison; tactically inflicted disproportionate losses
Korean War
Edward Almond
Major General, U.S. Army; commander of X Corps
- 1950Battle of Chosin Reservoir — United States / United Nations Command: successful fighting withdrawal / breakout to Hungnam
Oliver P. Smith
Major General, U.S. Marine Corps
- 1950Battle of Chosin Reservoir — United States / United Nations Command: successful fighting withdrawal / breakout to Hungnam
Song Shilun
General, People's Volunteer Army; commander of the 9th Army Group
- 1950Battle of Chosin Reservoir — People's Republic of China (People's Volunteer Army): captured the field but suffered crippling losses and failed to destroy the UN force
modern-age
Vo Nguyen Giap
General; Commander-in-Chief of the People's Army of Vietnam
- 1954Battle of Dien Bien Phu — Viet Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam): Decisive victory; garrison overrun and forced to surrender
- 1968Tet Offensive — North Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (NLF): military defeat; the Viet Cong was severely degraded
- 1968Battle of Khe Sanh — North Vietnam (PAVN): withdrew; failed to overrun the base
Vietnam War
Chu Huy Mân
General, People's Army of Vietnam
- 1965Battle of Ia Drang — North Vietnam (People's Army of Vietnam): heavy PAVN losses; both sides claimed success
Harold G. Moore
Lieutenant Colonel (later Lieutenant General), U.S. Army
- 1965Battle of Ia Drang — United States: US tactical success at LZ X-Ray; costly ambush at LZ Albany
Nguyễn Hữu An
Senior officer, People's Army of Vietnam
- 1965Battle of Ia Drang — North Vietnam (People's Army of Vietnam): heavy PAVN losses; both sides claimed success
Creighton Abrams
General; Commander, MACV (from 1968)
- 1968Tet Offensive — United States and South Vietnam (ARVN) / allies: battlefield victory; strategic/political shock
David E. Lownds
Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; commander, 26th Marines
- 1968Battle of Khe Sanh — United States and South Vietnam: base held; siege lifted by Operation Pegasus
Ngô Quang Trưởng
General, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
- 1968Battle of Hue — United States and South Vietnam (ARVN): recaptured the city after weeks of house-to-house fighting
Stanley S. Hughes
Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps
- 1968Battle of Hue — United States and South Vietnam (ARVN): recaptured the city after weeks of house-to-house fighting
Trần Văn Quang
General, People's Army of Vietnam
- 1968Battle of Hue — North Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong: driven out of the city with heavy losses
Văn Tiến Dũng
General; Chief of the General Staff, People's Army of Vietnam
- 1968Tet Offensive — North Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (NLF): military defeat; the Viet Cong was severely degraded
William Westmoreland
General; Commander, MACV
- 1968Tet Offensive — United States and South Vietnam (ARVN) / allies: battlefield victory; strategic/political shock
- 1968Battle of Khe Sanh — United States and South Vietnam: base held; siege lifted by Operation Pegasus
Gulf War
Colin Powell
General; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 1991Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War Air and Ground Campaign) — Coalition (United States and allies): decisive coalition victory
modern-age
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
General, U.S. Army; Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command
- 1991Battle of 73 Easting — United States (2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, VII Corps; theater commander norman-schwarzkopf): Decisive one-sided victory
- 1991Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War Air and Ground Campaign) — Coalition (United States and allies): decisive coalition victory
Gulf War
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq; Commander-in-Chief
- 1991Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War Air and Ground Campaign) — Iraq: routed; expelled from Kuwait
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