Who was the greatest general of the pre-Industrial era? Part 2

Suvorov: undefeated in over 60 battles against the Swedes, Prussians, Ottomans, Poles and French during a career of over fifty years.
 
I'll take Genghis Khan.

And while I do appreciate the nod to China, there's a relatively large chance that Sun Zi was a purely apocryphal figure. Even if we take for granted that there really was a man called Sun Wu who was a military strategist of some note during the Spring and Autumn Period (or the Warring States Period - we don't even know that much about him), so little is definitively known about his life that he really doesn't belong on a list such as this one.
 
Napoleon Bonaparte.

The reason for my selection is that whilst there are some very capable generals here and which I might have voted for, their foes were not the best and not commanded by the best. There are others who took on the "bigs boys" and won and so I would rate them higher

However none of them were really in Bonaparte's league. Commanders like him are one in a million.
 
The Great Khan! He took the hunting practices of his nomadic people and forged them into a battle doctrine that conquered half the world (or at least the heartland of the Chinese, Central Asian-Persian, Islamic, and Russian cultures)!

Seriously, he WORKED and he worked hard to forge his empire. His father was killed when he was a kid, he and hisfamily were banished from their tribe, he freed the slaves of the tribe that was his mortal enemy, when his father in law tried to reinback on offering his daughter to him he went out and got her; and constantly messed up anyone who decided to mess with him personally! So much so he created the largest Empire to the dateand still one of the largest land empires encompassing several civilizations and culminating in truly world changing events from the black plague to the destruction of Baghdad to the Yuan then Ming Dynasty to making everyone in Europe from all the peasents to the Pope shit themselves at the thought of him and his empire....!
 
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Hannibal Barca.

No, not necessarily the greatest, but deserving, and also lacking in votes.

Personally, the candidates list is a bit top-heavy.
 
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