Great Military leaders of History? - Page 59

On March 02 2012 10:30 Euronyme wrote:


Fact of the matter is that he was a general, although he obviously was a politician first. He was behind the wars that unified Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_bismarck

Half of all pictures of him seems to be in his general uniform as well. No need to be condescending.

On March 03 2012 03:41 IamVirGin wrote:
It's not really possible to notch down the "greatest" military leader of history, particularly because as has been mentioned defining the role is hard as well. In older times most leaders would be kings, queens, shahs or some form of politicians as well as a general.

As a stricktly battlefield commander though, Tsubodai gets my nod. Under and after Genghis served many a talented leader of man - Jebe, Muqali, Zelme and Genghis himself and his sons and brothers - but Tsubodai man.. he was something special.

The Vietnamese general mentioned on the previous page also deserves some more mentions.

On February 27 2012 21:04 kobrakai wrote:


Where on earth do you get such mis-information?

Is it because Wellington liked to station his troops on the reverse slopes of hills so as to not incur greater casualties from artillery (this seems to me a sensible thing to do)?


Ever heard of the battles of Assaye (i'll help you out, a force of under 10,000 attacked and defeated the Maratha army of 60,000) or Aragum or the storming of Gawilghur?

Now lets look at the Peninsular war (the following is a list of major battles commanded by the Duke of Wellington):


Rolicia - attacked
Vimeiro - defended
Douro - attacked
Talevera - defended (only because Cuesta decided not to attack, like Wellington wanted to, allowed the french to get away, then pursued, ran head long into the entire french army and then retreated)
Bussaco - defended

Retreaded behind the lines of Torres Vedras.

Pombal - attacked
Redinha - attacked
Fuentes de Oñoro - defended
Ciudad Rodrigo - assaulted
Badajoz - assaulted
Salamanca - attacked (as the saying goes 40 minutes to destroy 40 000 men)
Burgos - assaulted (failed)


Vitoria - attacked
San Sebastian - assaulted
Bidassoa - attacked
Nivelle - attacked
Garris - attacked
Toulouse - assaulted

And so concludes the Peninsular war. As you can see you are officially retarded and shouldn't post things that are completely and utterly false.

Reading threads like this make me depressed.