Greatest military strategist

Invictus

Antietam and Chattagoga were of much more significance. I think if you believe the death of one man can have such drastic effects on the outcome of a war you have the South tinted glasses on.

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

I am not going to deny that my sympathies lie with the South.

I think you are trivializing the shooting of General Jackson though. Robert E. Lee thought he was so important to the war that when he found out about General Jackson's injury he said:

femjac

No one's mentioned Hannibal Barca, the man who led his troops over the Alps to fight the Roman's on their own soil, winning three great victories over the Roman legions.
His greatest victory was the battle of Cannae, there his forces won an absolute victory over a Roman army twice the Size of the Carthiginaian forces.
And, I always thought lightening war was something the Germans took from Napoleon, and adapted for the modern age.

Joe Cool

Administrator

I'm allowing this because you added to the discussion but for the near future...

Please check dates on threads.

You bumped a thread that was from Feb.

Normally we frown upon that here.

Assassin™

Saying that they "adapted" it is pretty ambiguous. How intrusive could horses and muskets really be? Napoleon's mark on history has always been the size and relentlessness of his army, not particularly the offensive tactics they used.

Rated R Phenom

Caesar or Alexander The Great.

As mentioned, Hitler most certainly was not. He surrounded himself with the greatest military minds in the world at that time, and then didn't listen to a damn thing any of them had to say. Had he listened to Rommel, D-Day would have been a slaughter and the Nazi invasion of Great Britian and then, subsequently, America, would been under way.

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Dr. Giganto

Sun Tzu

Suffy

If you're going to go all Romance of the Three Kingdoms here then it's obviously Zhuge Liang.

Dynasty Warriors ftw :p

Balla

Video Games Moderator

FUCKING WORD, Alexander the great by far <.<

Zar

Alexander's success was entirely due to the military structure and strategy that his father Philip II of Macedon introduced. I dig Alexander though.

We can't leave out Temujin/Genghis Khan.




(I really wish I had studied the civil war in more detail, but our professor was American and the dude really rushed through it, pretty much teaching the events leading up to it and the results.)

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