Survey

I'd be very interested to have users opinions on:

1) The Greatest General
2) The Greatest Army
3) The Greatest Campaign
4) The Greatest Battle (tactics-wise)
5) The Greatest Battle (purely for heroics)
6) Greatest Rivalry
7) Biggest Upset
8) Most glorious victory
9) The Worst Error
10) Your favorite area of military history

Here's my ideas

1) Hannibal: Napoleon is a sentimental favorite of mine. I had difficulty choosing between the two, but my final choice was be Hannibal. Traversing his army across the Alps, and invading Italy. His campaign there lasted 17 years, nearly half a generation, operating hundreds of miles from his base of supply, in the heartland of hostile enemy territory, leading a force of various races, ethnicities, religions and languages, backed with the greatest tactics to world has seen, he nearly beat the greatest military power of the Ancient World. AMAZING!!! This truly proves his leadership as a magnificent general. How did he do this!

2) The Roman Legions: The Roman Legion, the ultimate military machine of the ancient world, was the catalyst that spread Roman conquest and civilization throughout the known world.

3) The campaign of General Subedei. No general has ever been able to match his campaign... (conquered the last of the Khwarazmian empire, then marched north across the Caucasus (something IIRC only 2 other armies in the history of the world have done successfully) subduing all states in his wake, dispersed the steppe empires to the north of that, then he crossed the frozen Russian rivers and defeated a Russian army 13 times large with very few casualties before heading east again.

4)Cannae � Though Austerlitz is a close second, I�m sure many would consider this the greatest single tactical masterstroke in the history. Everyone has dreamed of since. It is consider the �Holy Grail�  by military commanders. Many have tried it, while only a few have succeeded. It is still studied in institutions today. The battle is a clich�, and for a good reason.

5) The Alamo: 300 Texans withheld a entire Mexican force for 13 days. Their Heroic defense served as a beacon for Texas Independence, thus Remember the Alamo became a famous war-cry for many Texan leaders. Thermolpoley comes a close second. Both are characterized by incredible valor in almost certain death

6) China vs. Japan: 1,220 years. Not even Greece and Persia can match that. Italy and Germany has gone down, and risen up a lot, but China and Japan has stayed consistent since 780 B.C., and there�s still some opposition till this day!

7) The battle of Bull Run: The first time that the Union and Confederate infantry clashed. The D.C. politicians and spectators rode out thirty miles to see the splendid victory of the Union against the rabble of the South, expecting them to scatter and flee. To their surprise, they fled. There was a trail of lunch baskets and bonnets all the way to Washington. At least one Congressman was captured hiding behind a tree. LOL

8) Yorktown: LOL, what can I see, I�m patriotic. 8 years of hard-fought freedom, and what do you have? REJOICE!!!

9)Hitler's Invasion of Russia: This proved to be Hitler�s greatest error. Engaging in a unsuccessful second front an undefeated Britain and a mobilized America at his rear.

10) Everything: Call me a 'Generalist' (Means I know a lot of nothings. IMHO). I enjoy the Hannibalic War very much though, it was the closest that the Ancient War ever came to a World War, nearly encompassing the entire of Europe and North Africa.

the greatest error was not invading russia as hitler predicted it would fall like a crummy house.hitlers error was controlling the army personally and making bad decision after bad decision in russia.(battle of kiev etc) + by the time of normandy russsia was going to win against germany anyway