greatest tactical maneuvers of all time?

Question

who, where, when +why plz ;)

Answer 1

battle of waterloo

waterloo - france

arther wellesley (AKA duke of wellington)

he decided to make it look as though his whole army was retreating over a hill.

in those days if the enemy was retreating it was a good idea to set the cavalry on htem to finish them off.

when wellington got over the hill he had all his infantry form hollow squares, these were the best for fighting cavalry because the horses would ruun around them and get shot at by more guns, if the horses did get close to the square there would be atleast 6 bayonets stabbing at it, with 2+ squares it was even more effective - imagine an whole army doing it.

the french marhsal ney saw what he though was the army retreating, and mustered every cavalrymen in the french army, he even got any man with a horse, and charged over the hill, the squares shot and stabbed until there was no frencch cavalry left, then thee british infantry and cavalry tore apart the remaining freench infantry

Answer 2

of all time? hmmm, lemme see the candidates:

1. Lee's flanking maneuver in the face of superior forces at Chanslorsville, led by the TJ Jackson-1863

2. Paul Hausser's use of tactical withdrawal at the 3rd Battle of Kharkov against a Red Army 7 times his size - 1943

3. Hannibal: no general in history has ever repeated his feat of ambushing and annihilating an entire army as he did at Lake Trasimene. No general in history has ever matched his dispaly of tactical perfection as he employed at Cannae, until possibly Napoleon at Austerlitz. - 217 BC

4. Patton's 3rd Army manuever to redirect the relief of Bastogne in wintery weather - 1944.

5. The Norman Dukes feigned retreat at Hastings, causing part of Harold's line to give chase, only to be trapped and cut down - 1066

My pick was the greatest bluffer of all time and one of the greatest tactical minds in the history of warfare....Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Answer 3

Vat tactical genius, decimalisation, (240 pennies in a pound, to 100 pennies), poll tax, only half the population paid it, but maggie still made 10 times the previous years rates, then the year after brought in council tax at about half the increase and everyone paid up, absolutely no loss to the government who in the end got exactly what they wanted...pure genius, selling off council housing, an awful lot of council properties (and railways) were in serious state of disrepair, Maggie saved the government millions by pretending to help the poor people buy their houses....again, pure genius!

Answer 4

Perhaps the German push through the Ardennes cutting off Allied forces in Belgium in the Spring of 1940.