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Who were the greatest generals in history?

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Chosen1:
Who in your opinion were the best generals in each time period, and the best general overall?

My opinions:

Ancient times: Alexander the Great
Medieval times: Saladin
Late Renaissance to 19th Century: Napoleon
Modern: Erwin Rommel

I think the greatest general in history was Napoleon.

(Feel free to list more time periods if you want.)

Duster:
Ghengis Khan, hands down. Dominated everybody that was in the way. Dan Carlin did a great podcast on him and I've been a fan ever since.

HardRice:
Alexander Suvorov

Herezy92:

--- Quote from: HardRice on July 17, 2014, 09:16:46 am ---Alexander Suvorov

--- End quote ---

He created one of the french slogan army :
"What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle"
(we are still using it)

He never lost a battle. Even if to be honest, his battles never were ultra hard / impossible to win.
Maybe luck, or probably he was wise enough to know when he must engage.

In my honest opinion, winning battles isn't the only point which must be consider if you want to evaluate a general.
How he improved the military tactics, what kind of  maneuver he made in which circonstancies he fought and won/lost, etc...

I am sadly not good enough to name a general yet.

Xant:
Ah, so that's why the French are so good at running away -- their army does a lot of jogging.

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