Best Military Leaders of History

I figured a Nazi would somehow end up on this..... Ah well, glad to see its not hitler though :P#2) Genghis Khan. http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net...For those of you who dont quite remember who Genghis Khan is, he's the guy who only kickstarted the creation of the largest continuous empire the world has ever seen. http://upload.wikimedia.org...While he was only alive up until the year 1227 in that gif ^, he still managed to create an empire from nothingness that soon stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific ocean.... No small feat sure, but what is amazing about it is that he did it as a mongol. Mongolia at the time of Genghis Khan had very little manpower to muster to go out conquering, yet Genghis Khan managed to take down CHINA despite this handicap. (China existed as three different countries at this point, Jin in the north, Xia in the west, Sung in the south. Jin had the Capital city of Beijing and was more populated, and Xia China was the first thing that Genghis Khan captured ater uniting the Mongol tribes). Jin China was several times over more populated than Mongolia was at the time, and the size of the armies reflected this. Genghis Khan invaded with around 100,000 men, yet he still managed to "smashed the Jin armies, each numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and broke through Juyongguan Pass and Zijingkou Gap by November 1213....."http://en.wikipedia.org...Genghis Khan defeated SEVERAL Jin armies, each of which was larger than his own, and not only did he win, he smashed them, going on to conquer all of Jin China. After taking Jin and Xia China (along with some space in between the mongol homelands and the Caspian Sea) Ghengis Khan then led his mongol horde to conquer the Middle East, taking over Iran, Afghanistan, and everything north from there up to Russia. http://en.wikipedia.org...While the siege on China took about a decade, the conquest of the Middle East took only TWO years, even though Genghis Khan's armies were outnumbered roughly 400,000-450,000 to 100,000-150,000. He overcame his constant handicap in numbers by developing immensely complex and adaptable battle strategies to every situation he faced. Genghis Khan also pioneered heavy use of intelligence-gathering to vividly dissect how strong and resistant that cities/potential-targets would pose to him. "Also, the Mongol intelligence network was formidable. The Mongols never invaded an opponent whose military and economic will and ability to resist had not been thoroughly and completely scouted. For instance, Subutai and Batu Khan spent a year scouting central Europe, before destroying the armies of Hungary and Poland in two separate battles, two days apart"http://en.wikipedia.org...The largest empire to EVER exist in human history was started by Genghis Khan, and it continued to grow long after he had died by his successors who had used his brilliant strategies to win battles. Genghis Khan conquered territories several times larger and more populated than the Mongol homelands he came from, and did so despite being routinely and even horrendously out-manned, an ailment that can cripple even the best military generals. The Mongol empire would go on and expand into parts of Europe, all of China and Korea, and several other parts of the world. If you measured the greatness of military leaders purely by the amount of territory they conquered, than Genghis Khan is your undisputed champion as best general. Between 1206 and his death in 1227, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan conquered nearly 12 million square miles of territory—more than any individual in history.http://www.history.com...Not only that, Genghis Khan was so dominant, he conquered more than twice as much land as any other person in historyhttp://www.history.com...Genghis Khan is undeniably one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, military leaders of history. (Quick note, the Mongol failure to invade Japan happened under Kublai Khan in 1280, not Genghis Khan, who died half a century earlier in 1220.)