Kings, Generals & Presidents

George Washington commanded the Continental Army through the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), leading a poorly supplied, frequently outnumbered force to eventual victory over the British through a strategy of attrition and endurance rather than decisive early battlefield…

Gaius Julius Caesar rose through Roman politics as a general and statesman, most famously conquering Gaul (roughly modern France and Belgium) in a nine-year campaign chronicled in his own Commentarii de Bello Gallico. His crossing of the Rubicon River in 49 BC with his army —…