Originally posted by dean7879
i'll probably get hammered for this but i suppose hitler was a great war leader 馃槷
honestly, I will agree with u. As bad and evil as he was, he did restore German pride and gave the ppl hope. That's not bad, what was bad was his personal believes and how they affected his polioies.
Hannibal - Geez this guy was THE Man - he marched his army right up to the gates of Rome. How often has it happened that an ancient army was able to beat a well trained Roman Legion twice its size? And was pretty much the only general to win every major battle he was involved in...except for the last one, ironically, the only battle he fought on home soil. Considered by most modern-day generals as the greatest ever.
I tell you, he would've given Alexander a run for his money if they had met.
whomever said Clinton should be hit.
as for Churchill, is this before or after people started listening to him about Hitler?
i would say, the greatest war leader of all time would be Alexander the Great. then, in no particular order, Patton, Eisenhower (simply for Normandy), definitely Rommel.
Not sure if i agree with Caesar, simply because he wasn't actually doing anything...
posting this mostly cause I'm an annoying prat but also to educate the one that said Caesar didn't do anything:
some of the things Caesar did:
- studied in the east to collect military experience
- was very popular as aedil (don't know how the english write this word)
- made the first triumvirate with Crassus and Pompeius
- was proconsul of Gallia Cisalpina & Illyria
- later became also the proconsul of Gallia Narbonensis
- beats Pompeius to become dictator after the Alexandrian War (batles in ie Spain)
- involved in the Alexandrian War (Cleopatra VII back on the throne with her bro)
- war in Asia and Africa
- again a war in Spain
won't even talk about the calender of 365 1/4 days he made, or the creation of the first regulary made golden coins and the organisation of the huge prinvincia Gallia Transalpina or his famous memoires...