This dimension names the commander who led one side of a specific battle. Wikipedia quotes the strategist Carl von Clausewitz, who held that "the employment of battles ... to achieve the object of war" was the essence of strategy, a strategy that in every battle is directed by a named commander. Browsing this way collects every battle led by the same commander.
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Earliest Era Represented Commander
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1. War and Military Atlas Periodization
InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, battle has a live Ancient subcategoryQuote, War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, battle has a live Ancient subcategory
Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
Wikipedia: Battle of Waterloo
Wikipedia: Battle of Kursk
Wikipedia: Battle of Cambrai (1917)
Wikipedia: Atlantic U-boat Campaign of World War I
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