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Well, I would put Alexander on that list. I'm not sure that Grant should be on there. I think he is underrated but I don't think of him as great.

I don't think I saw Hannibal on there. "Chesty" Puller should be on there.

Gunther Guderion should definately be on there. There are a few Soviet Generals that I can't remember the names for. Sukhorov maybe?

Someone mentioned Genghis. What about Kublai Khan and Subotai.

Sun-Tsu should be in there somewhere for military thought in any event.

Lord Nelson. John Paul Jones. Admiral Farragut.

That's about it for now. I will think of more.

Arioch7 out.

There are a few Soviet Generals that I can't remember the names for. Sukhorov maybe?

I thought about mentioning Zhukov, but I don't know if you can even be a great general when your motivation is a murderous tyrant like Stalin.

Chesty Puller was a great commander, one of the best ever. The problem we are having is really with the level of command. Patton was great but he never operated at the top level of command. Nor did Chesty Puller, IMHO you have to be the top commander in a theater of war to be considered for the honor of Great Commander.

My top Commanders

Julius Caesar, best commander ever
McAuthur, he had is faults, but once he got going no one was better and he did not waste the lives of his men. Brillant
Washington, that Washington defeated the British is still amazing, on one did more with less.
Alexander the Great, anyone that conquers the entire world has got to be one the list.
Ghengis Kahn, thank G*d he turned east.
Napoleon, tactically maybe the best since Julius Caesar
Willian the Conqueror, certainly deserves mention

American generals at lower levels of command
Stone wall Jackson, Lee never won after he lost Jackson, that should tell you just how good Jackson was.
Patton best commander in Europe, he like McAuthur was very stingy with the lives of his men.
McAuthor ww1, only a divison commanders but did great work in ww1.
Chesty Puller in Korea pulled victory from certain destruction.

There are others worthy of mention but it's late and I am tired.

Grant was good, but not great, his claim to greatness is that he, unlike earily northen commanders understood that the South had to be beaten and beaten badly, total war, other general simply could not bring themselves to wage the kind of war neccessary to defeat the south Grant could and did.