[Sherman Logan]

I yield to none in my admiration for Washington as a man and a leader.

But he was not even vaguely close to Napoleon as a general or soldier.

The article was remarkably vague as to the criteria to be used in gauging the comparative “greatness” of these men.

True story: When Napoleon returned to France from Egypt and had launched his coup, a story got around that he would reinstate a Republic with self-rule by the people. (Not that the French had shown much capacity for it.)

His reply: “Who do they think I am, Washington?”

[Oztrich Boy]

But he was not even vaguely close to Napoleon as a general or soldier.

The American was voted the winner in a contest run by the National Army Museum to identify the country's most outstanding military opponent.

England's outstanding military opponent.

However good he was at fighting foreigners, against the English he

• lost the battle for Eygpt
• lost the war at sea
• lost the Peninsula War
• lost Waterloo

lucky to place third.

[Fiji Hill]

I yield to none in my admiration for Washington as a man and a leader. ,p> But he was not even vaguely close to Napoleon as a general or soldier.

The difference is that Napoleon met his Waterloo.