Who would you say were the top 10 commanders of all time?

Question

EFW

Answer 1

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) 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

Hannibal Barca
Alexander the Great
Napoleon
George Washington
Robert E Lee
Genghis Khan
George Patton
Black Jack Pershing
Erwin Rommel
Winfield Scott

Answer 3

Napoleon
Alexander the Great
Frederick the Great
Scipio Africanus
1st Duke of Marlborough
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Tamerlaine, aka Timur the Lame
Genghis Khan
Duke of Wellington

Answer 4

1) Alexander the Great
2) Julius Caesar
3) Genghis Khan
4) Hannibal
5) Napoleon Bonaparte
6) Erwin Rommel
7) Trajan
8) Erich von Manstein
9) Frederick the Great
10) George Washington (lost most battles but kept his army together until final victory)

Answer 5

stonewall jackson

Answer 6

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