Greatest General of all time? Who's your pick and why?

Answer 1

1) Patton how far could he have gone given a free hand in france during 1944 let alone against the Ruskies?
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) Paul Hausser for his tactical leadership of the II SS Panzer Corps, he restored the sagging front after Stalingrad and Kursk, beating Soviet Armies 7 times his size.
5) napolean master of land and sea warfare egypt and russian were his for a while. He was left chomping on the bit along the English Coast the same as Hitler tho.
6) thomas jackson, for his tactical victories in the Shenandoah Valley and Chancellorsville. He made bobby lee look good and if he was alive, could've won at Gettysburg too.
7) macarthur same as napolean but not the size of scale of conquest. A free hand could've won the Korean Conflict, either that or a direct confrontation with China...who knows?
8)Moltke first used the practice of mobility with railroads and the use of commanders to figure out the best way to take an objective
9)Sherman author the first demonstation of total warfare with march through the south to atlanta
10)genghis khan able to go from mongolia to europe a large undertaking considering his time. His empire was larger than Hitlers, Alexanders, and the Roman Empire combined.
11) charlemagne last big empire of europe until napolean. Without him, Europe would've been overrun by the Moors/Saracens (You'd be praying to Mecca each day).
12)Gauis Julius Caesar, especially for his exploits in Gaul and Britainnia...

Answer 2

General George Marshall, the US Army Chief-of-Staff during WWII. He not only had to raise an army (which included a massive air force) to fight on two fronts, he also helped develop the strategies to defeat the Axis powers. Considering his great opponents were probably the US Navy and the British, what he accomplished must be accepted as one of the great political/administative feats of the 20th century.

Answer 3

General Eisenhower.

Answer 4

Patton-he thought war was good fun. That's a little odd, but you have to love what you do to do it well. As well, Patton had an encyclopedic knowledge of just about every war in history and all the great historical battles. He was actually a very well-read and cultured man in spite of the "blood and guts" image he tried to project. Actually; according to Patton, he was the reincarnation of Hannibal so that's two great generals for the price of one.

Answer 5

Hannibal. A logistical and tactical genius. Hannibal knew he was outmatched in a marine invasion of Greece- so he took his armies and logistical train from North Africa to the foothills of the alps, and marched into Greeces from the NorthWest.

Most generals fight from strategies and tactics derived from history. Hannibal made history.

Answer 6

Chester Nimitz, He was a five star Fleet Admiral and eventually became Commander in Chief of the US Fleet.

Answer 7

John Gordon. At the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse Lee's greatly outnumbered army was threatened with being cut in two. Only Gordon and his men could prevent this from happening. Lee was prepared to lead the charge of Gordon's men when Gordon rode up and said, in a voice loud enough for his men to hear: "General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?" .
"No, no, no, we'll not fail him," the men cried. Then they took up the chant, "Lee to the rear," and Gordon seized Lee's horse's bridle and ordered some men to take Lee to the rear.
Some believe that Gordon's success in turning back the Federals at this, the Bloody Angle, gave the Confederacy an additional year of life. Clearly, he inspired his men by his reaction to Lee's attempt to lead the charge.

Before and during the War he had been urged to run for public office, but had not done so. After the War he was persuaded to do so. In his first race in 1868, in which he opposed Republican Rufus B. Bullock for the governorship of Georgia, he lost. In 1872, the Georgia General Assembly, which then selected the State's U.S. Senators, elected him to represent Georgia in Washington. Shortly after arriving in Washington, he became the first Confederate to preside over the U.S. Senate. The next day he obtained a promise from President U. S. Grant, with whom he been friendly with since Appomattox, to remove Federal officials in Georgia who had gained them through fraud or corruption.
In the Senate, he concentrated on economic issues and fostering national reconciliation. He was hailed by the New York Times as "the ablest man from the South in either House of Congress."
A frequent ploy by some Republicans at that time was to respond to any Southerner's position on an issue with diatribes about the South's culpability for the War, during which they called Southerners traitors, murders, and barbarians. Finally unwilling to tolerate any more of this in silence, Gordon rose to declare that, "when the people of my section are held up to the gaze of the civilized world as murders, assassins, and semi-barbarians, I feel that further silence will subject them to a more cruel misconstruction than can be extorted from any perversion, however gross and unjust, of my utterances here."
Denying that murder had become an "everyday occurrence in the South," he claimed that (white) Southerners had shown remarkable forbearance in the face of the overthrow of their state governments; the unconstitutional usurpation of their rights; military occupation; social disruption; and the incitement of the South's black population. "No people," he said, "in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned" as the people of the South. During this speech, he was frequently interrupted by applause from the galleries.
Gordon labored mightily to get Federal troops removed and home rule restored in the last two Southern states so burdened, Louisiana and South Carolina, and he received much of the credit for the "redemption" of these states via the Democrats agreeing to the elevation of Hayes to the presidency in exchange for their redemption. (The Democrats' candidate, Tilden, was denied the presidency by the throwing out of the contested Tilden victory in Louisiana and South Carolina.)




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Answer 8

Chesty Puller, United States Marine Corps, and no reason for a why!!!

Answer 9

Matt Ridgway. No weaknesses, aggressive, solid, intelligent.

Answer 10

alexander the great, coz he conquered most of the middle east and asia at a very young age. he began when he was 18!!!!