Top 100 Generals

 

 

Heinrici, from what I know of him is too low, so is Lettow-Vorbek, Allenby, too high. Wellington still too low and Frederick tG too high.

 

Judging by the mistakes the Prince of Orange made both at Quatre Bras and at Waterloo the result would have been disastrous. Until Wellington arrived to take command the Prince of Orange was in fact in command of the whole army much to the horror of the British contingent!!!

 

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i posted a post full of link but it went missing in the cyber space:

 

1- Muhammad bin Al-Qasim: the 17 year old kid who conquered all of Sindh o the foothills of the Himalayas, his troops reach Kashmir. he marched his troops from Basra to Multan, a distance of 2300 km, conquering all the land in between and defeating every enemy and much of the time at a great disadvantage:

2- Musa ibn Nusair: The guy conquered and pascified north Africa for ever. From Algeria to the Atlantic he crushed the guerillas and then empolyed them to conquere Spain despite he was in his 70s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_ibn_Nusair

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I wonder how Waterloo would have gone with the Prince of Orange in command, instead of Wellington?

Probably just the same. Take the high slope and hold on to it as much as possible.

The Prince of Orange and his vastly outnumbered Dutch army was able to hold off the French until reinforcements arrived.

Wellington was barely able to hold off the French at Waterloo until reinforcements arrived despite enjoying the high slope, three fortifications and an exhausted enemy equal in number.

I have a what-if scenario. In the Peninsular War, what if Wellington did not enjoy

1) Spanish guerrillas and population as allies
2) Spain's mountains
3) a small army that he could mold to his likeness,
4) the French making Wellington its #2 priority instead of the guerrillas
5) the French generals having no intelligence on him that he had on the French
6) the French treating the Peninsular War its undivided attention
7) the French having no good troops, especially good cavalry to attack the high slope that Wellington so loved
8) the French not handicapped by supply and communication problems because of risk of guerilla attacks

I am willing to bet that with any one of these 8 conditions reversed, Wellington wouldn't last long and would be no more than a footnote today. It wasn't a fair fight.

 

Here are other Arab and muslims generals that I think deserve more appreciation:

 

2- Amr ibn Al-As: He is considered by the majority of muslims historians as the second best commander ever and put him always behind Khalid. his greatest achievement was the conquest of Egypt by just 4000 men reinforced lated to 20 thousand despite facing stiff resistance from the 30 thousand Byzantines. he managed to defeat them again and take back Alexandria despite having no siege engines through an ingenious infiltration through the wall by a group of Fidayyeen:

2-Uqba ibn Nafi: the first conqueror of north Africa. With just 20 000 men he conquered all the way from Tripolitana, modern day Libyan Tripoli, to the Atlantic. He distroyed every opposition and managed to secure Berber help only to be betrayed by Kusailah:

3- Al-Numan ibn Muqarrin: One of the most underrated generals of all times, he was the man responsible for finishing the Sassanids once and for all at Nihawand. He began and completed the conquest of Persia proper after Iraq and Ahvaz were pascified and his troops reached to Khorasan and defeated all the remnants of the Persians. He recruited many of the Persian cataphracts into the army despite being not muslims so as to secure their loyalty and all of them became muslims in a few years:

4-Yazid ibn Al-Muhallab: One of the greatest commanders of the Ummayyads, his conquest of Mazandran finally annexed that region which defeated every Arab army that went their for 60 years.Before he came, Arabs would conquer the cities but defeated by guerilla action. He set out first to defeat the guerillas while laying siege on the cities and he defeated them and then finished the conquest. He later rebelled and nearly took on the whole empire but was defeated and killed:

 

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