Greatest military geniuses

In genius studies, greatest military geniuses refers to []

Ranking
The following is a work in progress ranking of military geniuses, the first-draft ordering of which derived from IQ|# ranking in the as found in the top 1000 geniuses rankings:

	IQ	Person	IQs cited	Description
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1.	— 107	Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)	=186 $IQ_B \,$ =180 $IQ_{CB} \,$ =163 $IQ_C \,$ =145 $IQ_W \,$ =142	(Cattell 1000:1) [RGM:149\|1,320+] (CR:34) (HD:20) (FA:67) French military leader, emperor, and philosopher; Nietzsche uberman (IQ:186+); was the first to systematically query all leading French scientists about theory atheism belief (see: Napoleon Laplace anecdote); high military IQ; Goethe and Napoleon were mutual devotees of each other; read Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther over six times during his various campaigns; was on a philosophical bent ascertain (or disprove) the theory or location of the soul in the context of modern physical science.
2.	— 153	Alexander the Great (356-323BC)	$IQ_O \,$ =200 $IQ_B \,$ =180	(Cattell 1000:17) [RGM:83\|1,320+] Greek emperor-warlord; tutored by Aristotle; by age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires in ancient history; established the Library of Alexandria, unified Greek science with Egyptian theology to form the forerunner religion to what, in the Roman recension would become Christianity (some argue, that via a reformulation of Osiris-Horus, he was prototype to Jesus); carried the works of Homer and Aristotle into battle (Ѻ); cited by some (Ѻ) with IQ of 200.
3.	— 180	Charlemagne (c.1742-814)		[RGM:176\|1,500+] Frankish king; noted for his rulee of much of Western Europe from 768 to 814; classified, by Morris Zucker (1945), with Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and Genghis Kahn, in The Philosophy of American History: The Historical Field Theory (pg. 57), the four dominate examples of “purely synthetic creations of individual genius”, in respect to great man theory of history.
4.	— 183	Genghis Kahn (c.1162-1227)	$IQ_B \,$ =180 $IQ_O \,$ =120-125	[RGM:313\|1,300+] Founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire (Ѻ) in history; the secret of their power, was said to be their drinking of mare’s milk, which heightened their intellect and warrior power; IQ Quora gauged (Ѻ) at 120-125 (2017); Hmolpedia gauged (Ѻ) as intellectually comparable to: Alexander the Great, and Napoleon Bonaparte, and Charlemagne, by Morris Zucker (1945).
5.	— 341	Julius Caesar (I00-44BC)	$IQ_B \,$ =170	(Cattell 1000:8) [RGM:131\|1,320+] Roman general, statesman, Latin prose author; noted for his critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman republic and the rise of the Roman empire; Nietzsche uberman (IQ:186+).
6.	— 451	Frederick the Great (1712-1786)		(Cattell 1000:49) [RGM:N/A\|1,320+] [GCH:12\|300+] Prussian king, from 1740 to 1786, and philosopher noted for being the host to Voltaire, when he was banished from France, for appointing, per suggestion of Pierre Maupertuis, Julien la Mettrie as his court physician, who was posthumously referred to as the "court atheist" (or "royal atheist") by Voltaire, and for his general efforts to promote French enlightenment stylized ideals in the Prussian empire; first slating: 170\|#311 (Jan 2018); second-slating: 165\|#405 (Apr 2018) per Frederick II and Francois Vayer rankings.
7.	— 472	Sun Tzu (c.540-496BC)	$IQ_B \,$ =165	(RGM:45\|1,500+) [GCH:34\|300+] a top ranked Chinese genius; purported author of the Art of War.
8.	— 510	Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-2012)	$IQ_O \,$ =170 $IQ_O \,$ =150-168	High school valedictorian; MS in mechanical and aerospace engineering; went on to successfully lead all coalition forces during Persian Gulf War (1990-1991).
9.	— 605	Carl Clausewitz (1780-1831)		[RGM:226\|1,500+] (GMG:9) (CR:9) Prussian general noted for his moral, i.e. “moral force”, and romantic theory of warfare, who in his 1832 posthumously-published treatise On War, used the principle of friction to distinguish real war from the mechanical, Newtonian world; a Philoepisteme “top 10 missing” (Ѻ) top 1000 geniuses candidate (2018); first-slating: 155\|#605 (Oct 2019).
10.	— 617	Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)	=143 $IQ_O \,$ =125-150	TopTens.com's "10 Smartest People in History" (Ѻ); IQ cited at: 125 (Ѻ), 130 (Ѻ), and 150 (Ѻ); must be at least comparable to: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, or Napoleon, all of which sought world domination.
1#.	— 618	Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)	$IQ_C \,$ =155 $IQ_W \,$ =145	(Cattell 1000:N/A) [RGM:640\|1,500+] [GCH:277\|300+] Venezuelan statesman and military leader; noted for []
11.	— 619	Hannibal (247-182BC)	$IQ_B \,$ =155	(Cattell 1000:107) [RGM:N/A\|1,500+] Carthaginian military commander (see: greatest military genius); noted as the man who nearly brought Rome to its knees.
12.	— 654	Robert Blake (1599-1657)	$IQ_C \,$ =155	(Cattell 1000:460) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] [GCH:42\|300+] English admiral.
13.	— 663	Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)	$IQ_{CB} \,$ =148 $IQ_C \,$ =150 $IQ_B \,$ =145	(Cattell 1000:N/A) [RGM:N/A\|1,500+] [GCH:6\|300+] British naval commander and national hero; famous for his naval victories against the French during the Napoleonic Wars.
14.	— 678	John Franklin (1786-1847)	$IQ_C \,$ =150	(Cattell 1000:442) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] English naval officer.
15.	— 679	Auguste de Marmont (1774-1852)	$IQ_C \,$ =150	(Cattell 1000:174) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] French marshal.
16.	— 694	Jan Zizka (c.1360-1424)	$IQ_B \,$ =145	(Cattell 1000:N/A) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] Czech general; his Battle of Kutna Hora (1421), wherein he defeated the army of the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary, was the first case of recorded use of field artillery (previously, artillery was used only during sieges of towns); one of several commanders in history who never lost a battle (alongside Alexander the Great, Bai Qi, Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Subutai, Yi Sun-Shin, the Duke of Marlborough, Alexander Suvorov, Fyodor Ushakov, and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck); his skin, according to his dying wish, was used to make drums so that he might continue to lead his troops even after death.
17.	— 706	John Churchill (1650-1722)	$IQ_C \,$ =145	(Cattell 1000:187) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] [GCH:11\|300+] British general.
18.	— 717	George Washington (1789-1797)	$IQ_{CB} \,$ =140 $IQ_C \,$ =140 $IQ_B \,$ =140 $IQ_W \,$ =135	(Cattell 1000:19) [RGM:50\|1400+] [GCH:85\|300+] (EPD:F11) American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who also served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797; noted for his “Crossing of the Delaware”, an Art of War stylized surprise attack, on Christmas eve Dec 25, 1776, during the Revolutionary War, against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey.
19.	— 727	Hernan Cortes (1485-1547)	$IQ_C \,$ =140	(Cattell 1000:219) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] [GCH:128\|300+] Spanish soldier; conqueror of Mexico.
20.	— 728	Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)	$IQ_C \,$ =140	(Cattell 1000:234) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] [GCH:157\|300+] Italian general, politician, and nationalist.
21.	— 730	Robert Lee (1807-1870)	$IQ_C \,$ =140	(Cattell 1000:585) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] American general.
22.	— 731	George Monk (1608-1670)	$IQ_C \,$ =140	(Cattell 1000:317) [RGM:N/A\|1,310+] English general.

Other
Redditor u/spergingkermit thinks Charles XII (1682-1718) is a military genius (Ѻ) with a guesstimated IQ of 165 (Ѻ). George Patton (1885-1945) [GCH:12|300+] will likely rank high.

See also
● War thermodynamics

Videos
● Anon. (2019). “100 Greatest Generals in History” (Ѻ), Cottereau, Mar 15.

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