several of his staff most notably Subudai, Tamerlane, Gustavus Adolphus, John Churchill, Ulysses Grant, Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, Marshall Zhukov
Wow! I didn't know those guys all served on Ghengis Khan's staff! You coulda knocked me over with a feather!
I assumed the way I'd used commas in that sentence would make it sufficiently clear to most people...