@strategic:
Robert e lee!
Lee would be an awesome choice. I couldn’t pick him, because in the South his name is cherished in the highest degree.
Greatest Generals
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you know, i just voted on this topic, and i noticed that Stonewall Jackson was leading the votes. I cant seem to understand this, as to my knowledge, he never made any significant tactical moves that would distinguish him. I remember him solely as an inspirational leader, and indeed, a stalwart leader, but not necessarily a great general. feel free to enlighten me if i am wrong.
You are very wrong, and it will take but one example to “enlighten” you :wink:
All you have to do is look into Jackson during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. In it, Jackson, with a motly force of 15,000, managed to check and hold three union armies of a total of 40,000 men. You can read more about it at http://www.civilwarhome.com/valleycampaign.htm
If Stonewall was still alive after Chancellorsville, the Confederates would’ve won at Gettysburg IMHO.
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ah, thanks for the correction TG. the civil war is not one im particularly interested in, so my knowledge isnt as extensive as it could be.
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Teej,
@El:…my simple votes are …
Nathan Bedford Forrest(Uneducated, started the Civil War as a private, but ended it as a general.)
Ghengis Khan
Sun Tzu(Great book!)
Robert E. Lee(Mexican War , Civil War and I believe he he helped caputure John Brown or some other nutcase. You realize he held a superior force at bay for years, though it was partly due to idiots like McClellan.)
George S. Patton
(Cow Cow and
Saladdressing
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I put my vote in for Hannibal Barca… had in not been for the damned politicians in carthage… he would have owned rome…
Long live Carthage! Hoo-Rah!
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yea, someone probably already said this, but the choices on the poll are a little thin. they are all “modern” generals, the earliest dating back to the 1800’s. certainly MANY great generals lived before then, as many people seem to be “voting” for the likes of hannibal, and the khans, etc.
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I put my vote in for Hannibal Barca… had in not been for the damned politicians in carthage… he would have owned rome…
I was wondering what you meant, then I remembered they called him home to defend Carthage, right? But it wouldn’t make too much sense to take Rome if Carthage was going to get taken.
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yea, that would be a pyhrric (sp) victory
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@Grigoriy:
I put my vote in for Hannibal Barca… had in not been for the damned politicians in carthage… he would have owned rome…
I was wondering what you meant, then I remembered they called him home to defend Carthage, right? But it wouldn’t make too much sense to take Rome if Carthage was going to get taken.
I did a research project on him…. buring is attack on rome, the politicians refused to send him anymore men or supplies… so he spent nearly ten years …
“. With his army in desperate need of reinforcements, Hannibal asked for help from his brother, who was defeated upon crossing the Alps. Hannibal’s army was diminished to guerilla warfare, while the Romans assaulted Carthage itself, causing him to withdraw from Rome…”
Hannibal spent years parading up and down Italy pillaging grain and the likes from farmers to feed his army.
The Romans used to have a sly way of keeping their children obedient… they had a saying which for the life of me i cant remember in latin, but in English its something like “Hannibal’s at the door!”… Hannibal was the first boogie man…
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“uh… yeah thats me up there… sorry guys”
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