List in order of rank, the 10 best generals of all-time, in your opinion, and briefly state why you think so.
Take into consideration: logistics, strategy, genius, micromanagement abilities, popularity amongst his troops, accomplishments, etc...
I'm curious what the other history buffs out there think?
2006-12-05 09:29:37 · 11 answers · asked by llcoolj38 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
1) Patton how far could he have gone given a free hand in france during 1944?
2) Rommel what could he have done had he more than 25% of the force required to win in africa plus his defense of france and the conquest of france.
3) zhukov the defender of russia and did well in the east prior to facing the germans
4) napolean master of land and sea warfare egypt and russian were his for a while
5) macarthur same a napolean but not the size of scale of conquest
6)Moltke first used the practice of mobility with railroads and the use of commanders to figure out the best way to take an objective
7)Sherman author the first demonstation of total warfare with march through the south to atlanta
8)genghis khan able to go from mongolia to europe a large undertaking conidering his time
9) charlemagne last big empire of europe until napolean
10)william the conquerer last one to invade england in 1066 so that has to merit some consideration
2006-12-05 10:18:01 · answer #1 · answered by gbulldogs88 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gaius Jullius Caesar
Scipio Africanus
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robert E. Lee
Hanibal Barca
Erwin Rommel
George Patton
Omar Bradley
ALexander the Great
Stonewall Jackson
I liked Caesar's empire building scheme, his exploits in Germania and Britain.
ranked in order
2006-12-05 09:37:46 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hannibal and Patten--followed by George Washington, Jeb Steward, Dwight Ezenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Stonewall Jackson , Rommel, Robert E. Lee, & Sam Houston
In that order!
2006-12-05 09:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-04 22:22:04 · answer #4 · answered by laseter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My crashed!!! I had written a really good answer... welll anyways, Patton, Rommel, Caesar, Alexander, Lee, Napoleon, Hannibal, MacArthur, Genghis Khan...I had more...these arent in order. I wrote a paper on Hannibal and MacArthur last year. Email me if you want to read them.
Hey sophist-the idea is that their skill was timeless, so choose accordingly ya sellout! Jk...
2006-12-05 09:51:28 · answer #5 · answered by Socrates 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander has to be up there. People are suggesting Patton, but guys like Motgomery and Zukov accomplished much more during WWII.
Kublai Khan?
Tamerlane?
2006-12-05 09:34:39 · answer #6 · answered by Oswald29 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There where many but probebly the greatest of all times was Genghis Khan
2006-12-05 09:35:38 · answer #7 · answered by elfsareus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gerge Patton, R.E. Lee, George Washington, nobody else even comes close.
2006-12-05 09:41:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are no generals of all time. Each was the best of his time.
2006-12-05 09:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hannibal... Napoleon... Patton... von Manstein...
That's only four though.
2006-12-05 09:31:51 · answer #10 · answered by Jason 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋