You may well be right!
Under rated?
Not hardly.....!
When I grew up in the 50’s we read our history of the Green Mountain Men and how they were instrumental in our fight for freedom.
Only someone who grew up in modern time and with modern history books, would you hear that he and his men were obscure heroes.
Just to prove a point. It was Ethan Allen (well known for his furniture store that organized the Green Mountain Men.
Ha! History is fickle and with modern history test-books, facts get screwed up time after time.
I would nominate General Walton Walker of the 8th Army and his defense of the Pusan perimeter in Korea from June 25, 1950 till his death in December 1950 as the most underrated American General. He, through sheer force of will, prevented an American Dunkirk. His orders to “Stand or Die” at the Naktong river should be legendary. They were outnumbered terribly and held!
“That is, he set out not to destroy the enemy directly, but to weaken him or make him irrelevant.”
MacAurthur in the Pacific for most of WWII?
to me its Winfield Scott!
“I will recover the country or die in the attempt” Great words spoken by a great soldier . We need more like him at this time in history instead of the wimps we have running the show .
Absolutely!! Washington could not have done it without Greene.
Greene’s escapades in the Southern Department are amply illustrated in “The American Revolution in the South” by Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, who fought under Greene during the Revolution.
George Thomas, USA, American Civil War. Waaaaaayyyyy under rated and understudied, IMHO.
Greene would be a good choice. Winfield Scott would be another as Polk did everything to try to discredit him after the Mexican War. MacArthur is way overrated in my book and Nimitz is the real victor in the Pacific.
IMHO this might be a case where a famous general is still underrated. His name - William Tecumseh Sherman. The March to the Sea from Tennessee may be the most devasting and unconventional campaign ever waged in North America save Cortes’s conquest of Mexico.
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I agree!!! General Nathaniel Greene and General Daniel Morgan were instrumental in defeating the British army in the southland, particulary at the Cowpens, etc. Morgan actually beat the Brits and Greene and while never getting a major victory in the war for freedom, made life utterly miserable for the King’s army. The pullback by the Brits to Yorktown and the military advice of the French to George Washington not to make the final battle in New York, but rather pin down the Brits and defeat them in Yorktown was the clincher for USA independenace. A footnote, just remember, Americans, Lafayette was but nineteen years old when he arrived in America. At the end of the revolution he was just twenty-four years old and, a full blown, decorated American General. IMHO, although many Americans shone as military leaders, I would say Washington, Greene, Morgan and Lafayette had a huge influence on the American victory!!! God certainly smiled on our new nation by blessing us with Lafayette who also came to be almost a son of George Washington!!! Another footnote: I can assure you that POTUS Barack Hussein Obama knows nothing about our revolution for freedom or for that matter anything about our history military or otherwise. He hates America with all his being!!! Wise up folks, you guys screwed up big time, across the board. He who snoozes, loses!!! You all must have been asleep to elect this fool & buffoon!!! He knows nothing about our great country other then to vastly dislike it!!! Remember In November!!!
Go walk the ground at Guilford Courthouse.. A great deployment that almost cost Cornwallis the Guards.
( Cornwallis had to fire his artillery into the back of his own troops to get them to fall back out of the trap.)
Next stop for Cornwallis - Yorktown
US Grant. If Lincoln and his war dept would have listened to him the Civil war would have been over 2 years prior.
BTW. Lee said that up to that time, he searched throughout history and found no equal to Grant. Nearly every General that served under him said about the same. Sherman said that although he could do many things that Grant did better, the one thing Grant did that he couldnt was that Grant didnt give one care about what the enemy was doing..and it scared the heck out of him. The man took charge and ran 5 armies at one time.
Not sure where the under rated idea came from. I’ve always thought he was highly celebrated.
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