Anyone who fought the French. Except the French.
Posted on 11/14/2004 5:23:06 PM PST by Cyropaedia
In light of the upcoming film Alexander (the Great), who in your opinion were actually the greatest military commanders our world has known...?
Mine are Genghis Khan, Alexander, and U.S. Grant.
David. He defeated an army with a slingshot.
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George Washington has to rank up there. He definately had the most lasting positive impact on history of all of the major commanders. Compare Washington to his French counterpart, Napoleon. Washington took a poor frontier nation and set it on track to become the greatest nation in the world. Napoleon took the world's most powerful nation (then France), and set it on track to be the third-rate power it is today.
Kerry was in the military?
John F. Kerry = Best tactical retreat strategist
George Washington has to rank up there. He definately had the most lasting positive impact on history of all of the major commanders. Compare Washington to his French counterpart, Napoleon. Washington took a poor frontier nation and set it on track to become the greatest nation in the world. Napoleon took the world's most powerful nation (then France), and set it on track to be the third-rate power it is today.
Didn't you know? He was in Vietnam...and Cambodia, too.
Grant
Wellington
Rommel
John Paul Jones, Stephen Decatur, David Farragut, Robley Evans, William Halsey, Chester Nimitz.
He should have said something about it.
wesley Clark = Best Bomb at a Distance Strategist
Hannibal, Chengis Khan & several of his staff most notably Subudai, Tamerlane, Gustavus Adolphus, John Churchill, Ulysses Grant, Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, Marshall Zhukov...
Lord Horatio Nelson
Anyone who fought the French. Except the French.
Douglas MacArthur is right up there...
Julius Ceaser, Erwin Rommel and George Patton.
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