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George Washington.....I know he never really won anything till Cornwall but he held off the greatest power in the world and won...strategically.

Gustavo Adolphus.....father of modern warfare.

Charlemagne....Europeanized Europe.

Lord Nelson.....an admiral.

Drake....as well.

Pizzaro....

Cyrus.....

William the Conqueror...major implications.

Peter the Great....defeated enemies outside and inside and modernized Russia to a degree from fiefdom.

Cromwell....came from nowhere literally.

Lee....large armies...modern weapons...big battles.

GC Marshall.....commanded the baddest ass army the world has ever known from afar.

This list could go on and on......there is no real top ten but in my mind's eye, Al the Great is number one to a majority of folks who follow this stuff.

I should mention Bolivar. I know he was no great tactician and fraught with personal demons but he moved a rag tag army all over the Andes from Caracas to South Central Peru at altitude and jungle which was no small feat and he whipped Spanish butt at Boyaca between Tunja and Bogota in some pretty rough high country. I have traveled extensively between Venezuela and Pery thru the Andes and it's a lunar landscape battlefield with low oxygen in many places along the way...far worse than anything Hannibal faced in the Alps with no civilization to speak of at the time (not much today either) plus Hannibal lost although he won a pile of battles.