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Posted: 10/3/2011 6:14:32 AM EDT
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Alexander the Great
Oda Nobunaga Stonewall Jackson John Singleton Mosby James Mattis Chesty Puller |
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Ok, I will be one of the first to say it:
Adolph Hitler The guy almost took over the entire world. Had he made a few different decisions, he may have done so. |
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Ok, I will be one of the first to say it: Adolph Hitler The guy almost took over the entire world. Had he made a few different decisions, he may have done so. He wasn't a military commander. |
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Ok, I will be one of the first to say it: Adolph Hitler The guy almost took over the entire world. Had he made a few different decisions, he may have done so. He wasn't a military commander. That didn't stop him from making himself one. |
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The really sad thing is that there are so many we will never know about....
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Patton by far. Did more with less, regardless of conditions and never said he couldn't.
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I'll go out on a limb and say George Marshall.
Not so much for direct command in battle, but for within 4 years turning a 3rd rate at best US Army into the most potent fighting force the world had ever seen. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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[span] What, no love for the Navy?[div]
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Themistocles was in the Athenian navy. |
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Quoted: Quoted: [span] What, no love for the Navy?[div] [div]Themistocles was in the Athenian navy. ahhh, you went right over my head with that one. off to wikipedia! |
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http://www.americanrevival.org/csa/photos/confederates/Forrest1.jpg Nathan Bedford Forrest http://www.americanrevival.org/csa/photos/confederates/Jackson3.jpg Stonewall Jackson http://www.americanrevival.org/csa/photos/confederates/LeeBoots.jpg Robert E. Lee N.B Forrest, great tactician with about a 2nd grade education level. |
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William T. Sherman and Curtis Lemay. Yep. Rommel did some pretty impressive shit as a junior officer back in WWI as well. |
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That's an impossible one but I am partial to Robert E. Lee.
And I'm a yankee!! |
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Alexander, Genghis Khan, Subedei, Napoleon, Cyrus the Great, Charlemagne.
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I know I'll be in the minority on this one but...hell yeah! Operation Bolo was genius in action. |
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Ok, I will be one of the first to say it: Adolph Hitler The guy almost took over the entire world. Had he made a few different decisions, he may have done so. He wasn't a military commander. True, but he would disagree with you though. |
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Quoted: That's an impossible one but I am partial to Robert E. Lee. And I'm a yankee!! This |
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Robert Rogers (Rogers' Rangers)
Tecumseh George Rogers Clark Rochambeau (without whom, Washington would have gotten his ass kicked) |
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Thomas J. Jackson
As one of his prisoner's said; "He ain't much to look at, but if he was our general we wouldn't be in this fix." |
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Lee did a lot with not a lot to work with.
If the South had the guns and amount of people as the North, the CSA would still be around. –––– Kahn pretty much overran everywhere he went. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: Lee did a lot with not a lot to work with. If the South had the guns and amount of people as the North, the CSA would still be around. –––– Kahn pretty much overran everywhere he went. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Too bad Lee didn't take up the offer. Some guy from South Africa offered him AKs. |
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