[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.

[laconic]

Ataturk prevented the Allied breakout at Gallipoli early on their occupation (it was his onsite leadership), but for him they would have broken through to Constantinople and the Balkans. I agree that Forrest was probably the greatest strategist of the Civil War but I don't think RE Lee qualifies among the greatest generals; among the greatest LEADERS YES, but I have to balance his masterpiece at Chancellorsville against the blunders at Antietam, the valiant but disastrous battle plan at Gettysburg and his inability to do much of anything in the western Confederacy that taint his generalship.