Who's the greatest general?

Who's the greatest general or conqueror in History?

  • Genghis Khan

    Votes: 20 28.6%
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    Votes: 12 17.1%
  • Alexander the Great

    Votes: 12 17.1%
  • Julius Caesar

    Votes: 4 5.7%
  • Octavian/Augustus

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Frederick

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Bismarck

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Cyrus

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Others, pls. specify by posting

    Votes: 15 21.4%
  • Who are these guys anyway?

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Total voters
    70
  • Poll closed .
Genghis Khan. Zhuge Liang (not the one here) would be close, but I decided otherwise. :)
 
Ulysses S Grant! How could you possibly forget the foundation of Modern Warfare and all of American Tactics? He taught us to attack where the enemy is weakest, to fight with the best advantages possible rather than the most timely chance.
 
Then again, I forgot to mention the granddaddy of strategy, Sun Tzu...
 
William T. Sherman

In my completely unbiased opinion.

:)
 
Ulysses S Grant! How could you possibly forget the foundation of Modern Warfare and all of American Tactics? He taught us to attack where the enemy is weakest, to fight with the best advantages possible rather than the most timely chance.

Oh please, you give the man too much credit. Grant was only in charge of the whole party near the end of the war. The evolution of warfare over the course of the war happened very much without his direction, hey just happened to be there when it happened.

My vote goes for other, and that other is Scipio Africanus.
 
This is a superflicious thread and poll. There are too many to choose inbetween that you have to argue here, too. Thus it becomes too fast a doubled thread.
Bismarck was politician btw. and did not lead an army in fights (although he lost three horses in battles...).

Adler
 
This is a superflicious thread and poll. There are too many to choose inbetween that you have to argue here, too. Thus it becomes too fast a doubled thread.
Bismarck was politician btw. and did not lead an army in fights (although he lost three horses in battles...).

Adler

But he's an MGL! He must be a great general!
 
Patton. If it weren't for him, the 101st airborne would have been destroyed at Bastonge, and WWII in Europe would have lasted a year long, maybe more.
 
I very much doubt that the destruction of the 101st at Bastogne would have delayed the allied victory by that much, nor were the 101st in that desperate a position (after all they weren't pulled out of the line until some time after Patton's forces arrived).

There was never a very big chance that the Germans would achieve their objective of capturing Antwerp, and even if they did I doubt that this would have seriously impeded the allied war effort. Even in January the port was only coping with 10,500 tons of supplies a day against the projection of 40,000. The allies had been coping without Antwerp for nearly 6 months by the time of the Bulge campaign.
 
Wellington > Napoleon
Wellington was undefeated. He beat Napoleon. Napoleon's great skill was in sending columns of men until the enemy broke. It wasn't particularly wonderful.
 
He was by no means the greatest, but Zhukov deserves a mention. Despite Stalins numerous blunders, he defended Leningrad as best as could have been expected, repulsed the Germans form Moscow, won the largest battle in the history of mankind at Stalingrad, and took Berlin. All in 4 years. not too shabby
 
Genghis Khan of course, he and Josef Stalin are my heros. (btw, I'm not a commie. So don't even try messaging me about it.)
 
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