He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, the victor of five hundred battles, and the conqueror of a thousand cities.
Hannibal joined the Carthaginian army in Spain at twenty-two, and was made commander-in-chief at twenty-six.

Victorious in Spain and France, he crossed the Alps and won the battle of Cannae before the age of thirty-one.
Scipio Africanus, (the elder,) at the age of sixteen distinguished himself at the battle of Ticinus; at twenty was made edile, and soon after pro-consul in Spain; at twenty-nine he won the great battle of Zama, and closed his military career.

Scipio Africanus (the younger) also distinguished himself in early life; at the age of thirty six he had conquered the Carthaginian armies and completed the destruction of Carthage.
Gengis-Khan succeeded to the domain of his father at the age of thirteen, and almost immediately raised an army of thirty thousand men, with which he defeated a numerous force of rebels, who had thought to take advantage of his extreme youth to withdraw from his dominion.

He soon acquired a military reputation by numerous conquests, and before the age of forty had made himself emperor of Mogul.
Charlemagne was crowned king at twenty-six, conquered Aquitania at twenty-eight, made himself master of France and the greater part of Germany at twenty-nine, placed on his brows the iron crown of Italy at thirty-two, and conquered Spain at thirty-six.
Gonsalvo de Cordova, the "great captain," entered the army at fifteen, and before the age of seventeen had acquired a brilliant military reputation, and was knighted by the king himself on the field of battle; at forty-one he was promoted over the heads of older veterans and made commander-in-chief of the army in Italy.
Henry IV.

of France was placed at the head of the Huguenot army at the age of sixteen, at nineteen he became king of Navarre; at forty he had overthrown all his enemies, placed himself on the throne of France, and become the founder of a new dynasty.
Montecuculi, at the age of thirty-one, with two thousand horse, attacked ten thousand Swedes and captured all their baggage and artillery; at thirty-two he gained the victory of Triebel, at forty-nine defeated the Swedes and saved Denmark, and at fifty-three defeated the Turks at the great battle of St.Gothard.In his campaigns against the French at a later age, he made it his chief merit, "not that he conquered, but that he was not conquered." Saxe entered the army at the early age of twelve, and soon obtained the command of a regiment of horse; at twenty-four he became _marechal-de-camp_, at forty-four marshal of France, and at forty-nine gained the celebrated victory of Fontenoy.