Also Benedict Arnold’s 350 mile march on Quebec through the largely uncharted Maine swamps in the oncoming 1775 winter.
And Henry Knox’s transportation of the seized cannon at Ticonderoga 300 miles on sled through the dead of winter to the Dorchester Heights in Boston, forcing the British to give up their occupation.
What an ignoramus.
Mao’s and Zhang’s absolutely crazed kidnap of Chiang Kai-shek is also really high up there, I mean, the Xian incident has affected history as much as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... and it was pulled off by slight of hand.
Warlord Zhang gave an interview about it before he passed away:
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/20/world/taipei-journal-kidnapper-of-chiang-kai-shek-ends-long-silence.html