Marshall Louis Davout was the greatest subordinate general in military history, hands down....much less debateable than greatest military commander.
Davout was one of Napoleon's Corps commanders. Totally loyal to his commander right to the end. Fought an amazing amount of battles, basically never made a mistake, was the key commander in a number of Napoleon's greatest victories (Jena-Auerstedt for one.)
Probably fought in 20 times more battles than Stonewall Jackson, and never had some of the mistakes and weak performances Jackson did.
Thing that hurts him is that he had somewhat of a boring personality, and didn't have any odd quirks or habits to help make him famous. He was simply a great commander.
Ridiculous for Stonewall to be mentioned over and over again and get about 200 posts into the thread before Davout was mentioned, but, as always, the problem is that plenty of people at least know something about the American Civil War but currently in this country the number of people that have the foggiest notion of the Napoleonic Wars is very small.
I asked you that because I have never heard of him and I am as you say woefully lacking on knowledge of the Napoleonic Wars.
You have expanded my reading lists and I thanl you for it!
Could you please explain this guy? Gephard von Blucher.
Is he part of the Prussian General Staff?
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At the least, it would have been a lot more interesting. Blucher would have been toast, and it may have been French troops rather than Prussian arriving on the field.