Posted on 08/31/2002 1:49:08 PM PDT by zapiks44
Who do you think are the 10 best military commanders of all time? (By military commander, I mean someone who actually commanded armies and orchestrated the attacks, not politcal leaders, such as Churchill) Here are my picks:
1.Alexander the Great (The undisputed greatest military genius who ever lived)
2.George S. Patton ( Can't forget him)
3.Napoleon (Obvious, but the French don't get credit since he's techincally Italian!)
4.Julius Ceasar (Veni, Vetti, Vecci)
5.Richard the Lionheart/Saladin (The two men who've probably shaped the Middle-East more than anyone else)
6.Georgi Zhukov (Main architect of Stalingrad victory)
7.Erwin Rommel (The real "Desert Fox")
8.Hannibal (Coined the term (Crossing the Alps)
9.Stonewall Jackson (Of course)
10. Horatio Nelson (Stopped Napoleon from invading Britain and spreading to South America)
Sorry didn’t check the date of the thread. Blush
Seconded.
One of my personal favorites is Arminius, the Germanic warlord who crushed the Roman forces under Publius Quinctilius Varus at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
Trained by the Romans, Arminius turned against them and led ten to fifteen thousand Germanic tribesmen against a force of twenty to twenty-five thousand Romans (three legions, three alae, and six auxiliary cohorts). Only two to three thousand Roman troops escaped the slaughter, with nearly every senior officer either being killed in action or committing suicide to restore their honor. The three legions, the 17th, 18th, and 19th, were never restored, a rare occurrence in the Roman Army.
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