[laconic]

William Tecumseh Sherman (never panic) and Kemal Ataturk (smashed the Allies at Gallipoli, drove the Greek Army from defeated Turkey and remade an ancient empire in his image) beat Patton easily. Also, George Washington who may not have won battles but he knew how to win a war against the then-greatest military empire. And Douglas MacArthur who conquered more territory than Eisenhower and Patton with ten percent of the resources and ten percent of the casulaties. And General Suvorov of Russia who was wounded seven times and never lost a battle because unlike modern generals, he was on the front line constantly. Otherwise, your list is pretty accurate in my view, unless you want to include Genghis and Kublai Khan.

[Destro]

Kemal Ataturk did not smash the allies at Gallipoli. He was a subordinate under the command of a German general. Western withdrawl of backing to the Greeks had more to do with the Greeks losing than Ataturk's generalship. He is probably in the top 100.

[Jeff Chandler]

I'm glad you mentioned Sherman. What he did was horrible, but he understood what had to be done to break an adversary. None of this "Okay, now that we have the advantage we'll let you off the hook so you can regroup and come back to kill us in the future." crap.

[fhayek]

I second Sherman. Grant gets most of the credit, but it was Sherman who won the Civil War (in my view).

[wardaddy]

Ataturk is a good pick.