Favorite Generals or Commanders

Bah. Albert Speer was better than Washington. Then again, Washington never published a book, let alone ran an entire army from Berlin, did he?

Speer was the first true Logistics expert.

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Who was Hannibal? I don't remember who he was, Alexander and Atilla keep on coming to mind.

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who can forget Kaz�m Karabekir Pasha?

he is my fav. general...

Mongol Generals Subedei & Jebe - for acomplishing the only successful invasion of Russia in the dead of winter.

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French- for Rivoli, Marengo, The Pyramids, Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, etc., etc.

William Techumseh Sherman- for bringing terror into the hearts of the "saucy" rebel southern confederacy.

British commanders like "Chinese" Gordon, T.E. Lawrence, and Orde Windgate- for being such eccentric "damn your eyes" nutcases.

Boer commanders like Piet Cronje, De la Rey, and Louis Botha- for leading Boer commando to such effect against British arrogance.

Abd El Krim- for inflicting the devastating Spanish defeats at Tetuan and Xauen.

Von Lettow und Vorbeck- legendary World War I commander of Imperial German forces in East Africa.

Kapitan zur see Karl Muller- skipper of the German commerce raider SMS Emden

Vo Nguyen Giap, Lin Piao, Leon Trotsky- even though they were commies.

Antonio Luna- Filipino General during the Philippine-American War.



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Jeb Stuart, who commands best while drunk.

Yup. I've been to the park/reservior where he lead his raiders on... well, raids, against Union forces.

A local higschool is named after him, Jeb Stuart Highschool, mascot is the Raiders.

Almost got changed to Peacevalley

Peacevalley Raiders does have a nice ring to it though

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Genghis Khan, Hannibal, Aleric, Tamerlane

Alexander

Ataturk

Selim I

Alp Arslan

Timur

Patton

 

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Favourite Military leaders:

1. Chengiz Khan (The ultimate warrior. Spelt CORRECTLY!)


2. Sandracottus (Chandragupta Maurya. Defeated Nictator's Greek/Macedonian armies & united 75% of S Asia for the 1st time under 1 Empire)

3. Atilla the Hun (Nearly desroyed the Western Roman Empire YAY!, stopped bcoz pope threatened to rape his children if he didn't).


4.  Robert  de Bruce (Scottish king defeated the larger armies of Edward the 2nd at Bannockburn. Originator of famous kids tale of the persistent spider in the cave.)


6. Chhhatrapati Shivaji Bhonsle: 1st Maratha king. Lived and breathed war. Tactical genius who mastered the art of guerrila warfare in the western ghats USING CAVALRY. Defeated the  main force of the Mughal army  and their mercenaries several times, despite being vastly outnumbered and outgunned every time).

6.  Tipu Sultan, son of Haider Ali:=18th Cent S Indian Warlord who might have succeeded in throwing the Poms out (with a little help from Bonaparte) were it not for a betrayal by one of his key generals.


7. Lord Horatio Nelson: A pom, I know, but he was a smart dude and had balls. Wom battle of Traflagar & died there.