[Phsstpok]

Clearly most of the best and brightest are lost to history. Here are a few that stand out from what history has found its way to me.

Sun Tzu
Sargon
Charles Martel
Nathan Bedford Forrest (no one said racists couldn't be great tacticians)
Patton

Anyone after Patton is too close to really examine with any objectivity.

[DixieOklahoma]

Nathan Bedford Forrest was not a racist. Check your facts, the south did not fight the civil war for racial reasons. By that logic, Brittian fought the colonies to rid them of slavery. What about the slave holding states like maryland, etc that were part of the Union????

Also, Yes Nathan B. Forrest was one who started the KKK to fight the raping horrors of reconstruction, but later renounced the organisation because they had became too radical.