who is your favorite generals in history?

For me:
1) General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte because he saved his country from communism.
2) Octavius Augustus, First Roman Emperor.
3) Bohemond of Tarento, first Prince of Antioch and hero of the First Cruzade.
4) Richard I (The lionheart) King of England
Regards.
Xavier

I watched the movie. talk about the genius of the world. If only he was alive now...China would benefit heaps from his wisdom. Why do smart ppl like him only live in history?

Its not fair.

I can't understand how you can mention Pinochet before the others. He may have been an efficient anti-democratic dictator, just as ruthless and cruel to his enemies as the other three, but his military credentials are zero: he never fought a single battle unless you count deposing a democratically elected president in a bloody coup d'état and assassinating thousands of unarmed civilians.

Troll, right?

1. Alexander the Great
2. Leonidas
3. Miltiadis
4. Pausanias
5. Theodoros Kolokotronis
6. Pavlos Melas
7. Napoleon Bonaparte

1. Leonidas of Sparta.. Legend...

2. Demosthenes (and Cleon) at Pylos, defeated the Spartans and captured 292 of them for minimal casualties...

3. Me, my battle will happen soon... One man vs. The Armies of the AntiChrist... After much bloodshed, I win and become a new god... (Destiny)

1. Alexander the Great

2. Napoleon Bonaparte

3. Hannibal

4. Eisenhower

5. MacArthur

6. Charles De Gaulle

7. Marc Anthony

8. and the very British Churchill

1. Alexander the Great
2. Hannibal
3. Julius Caesar
4. Napoleon Bonaparte
5. Erwin Rommel

If I had to choose one of them, I would have to choose Alexander the Great, with Rommel in close second.

My Favorite General
Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington

Proved his worth in the Peninsular War, and while I dont agree ( with the benefit of hindsight) on his politics he was an excellent tactician and a good, albeit harsh, commander. He had a sense of style I can't help but admire.Posted below is one of his letters ( a brilliant letter and one I suspect many a Commander would just love to write).


Gentlemen,

Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M. ship from London to Lisbon and thence by dispatch to our headquarters.

We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all manner of sundry items for which His Majesty's Government holds me accountable. I have dispatched reports on the character, wit, and spleen of every officer. Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.

Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous confusion as to the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are at war with France, a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.

This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions from His Majesty's Government so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it must be one of two alternative duties, as given below. I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both:

1. To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance;

2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain.

Your most obedient servant,

Wellington

and he was irish! although he never admitted it...

From a groundpounder's perspective, no doubt about it; my favorite General of all time was



Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller

37 years of service, with active duty both enlisted and commissioned, 5 Navy Crosses, The Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, 2 Legions of Merit (with Valor Device), Bronze Star (with Valor Device), the Air Medal, the Purple Heart (with clusters), assorted other decorations, and numerous awards and citations granted by Non-US governments and militaries. Among his more memorable quotes are these three, quite illustrative of his spirit and attitude:

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away this time."

"We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem."

"We're here to fight."

Chesty lived, ate, slept, and fought, and bled with the troops he led, asking no man to do anything he would not do, and in many cases had done. A hard but just taskmaster, Chesty led by example, earning the respect and admiration of all who served with him. While it has been my privilege to have met him, I never had the honor to be under his command, but my dad did - twice.


Good night, Chesty, where ever you are.

1.Sun Wu
2.Hannibal
3.Cao Cao
4.Cornelius Scipio (Africanus)
5.King Alexandria

PS:Seems that Sun Wu is called "Sun Tzu" in English

Zapata

Any relation to Sun Che?

Gyorgyi Klapka.

General Gau kicks ass.

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That'll cost you 20% more than senior prices.

Has anybody named Genghis Khan?

Maybe Sun Tzu was the ancestor of Sun Che, but there's no evidence shows that.
Sun Che was one lived in SanGuo period, and it was him who died very young; while Sun Tzu lived hundreds years ago.
Sun Che was very good at personal fighting, not so good at tactics and strategy.
In contrast, Sun Tzu was very good at tactics and strategy.
Hope I made myself clear.
I think you're familar with Chinese history, few people knows Sun Che out of China.

Now i feel really stupid . . . you're referring to Sun Tzu who was the author of The Art of War in roughly the sixth century BCE . . . oops . . .


As for Sun Che, i stumbled on The Romance of the Three Kingdoms many years ago, and so became familiar with Sun Che, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo, Liu Bei, Guan Yu--the entire cast of characters, both historical and fictional. I had previously been familiar with the dynastic history of Chinese empires, but RTK was my first exposure to detailed Chinese history.