Leaders who died while in combat? - Historum

Kiwi · October 23rd, 2009, 04:27 AM

Many leaders talk of glory and honour, and there is no honour more than fighting and dying for your country, or so people thought.

Who are some leaders that died in combat?

I know a few, Genghis Khan, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Richard III of England, and, Constantine XI, Byzantine Emperor.

Any more you guys would like to suggest?

**plutoboyz** · October 23rd, 2009, 04:42 AM

Sri Baduga Maharaja from Sunda kingdom.
He died on Bubat war.

**sturm** · October 23rd, 2009, 04:54 AM

Nikephoros I Logothetes, an emperor of the Byzantine empire, he was captured in a battle by the pagan bulgars, he was beheaded(in 811), and his skull was made into a cup, from which our khan drunk wine.

Constantine V died in a campaign against the bulgars in 775.

Comnena · October 23rd, 2009, 05:11 AM

-Harold of England.
-Richard I of the same country died of a wound caused by an arrow that was shot from a castle he was besieging (he died more than a week afterwards, though, so I don't know if he counts).
-Cyrus the Great of Persia (according to Herodotus at least).
-Also his father Cambyses.
-Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
-Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy

**pikeshot1600** · October 23rd, 2009, 06:02 AM

The Emperor Valens at Adrianople in AD 378.

**oshron** · October 23rd, 2009, 06:12 AM

a few that i know of were Leonidas I at Thermopylae and Harold Godwinson at Hastings. another one is Colonel Travis, who commanded the forces at the Alamo. he's also my namesake!

MarkA · October 23rd, 2009, 06:42 AM

Horatio Nelson at Trafalger
James Wolfe at Quebec

**pikeshot1600** · October 23rd, 2009, 10:06 AM

Montcalm at Quebec

**Chookie** · October 23rd, 2009, 10:48 AM

Moore at Corunna

**diddyriddick** · October 23rd, 2009, 11:22 AM

George Armstrong Custer at Little Big Horn