| My favourite commander has to be Wellington (Arthur Wellesley)
He's my favourite because he never lost a battle, he won them and drew them but never lost one.
His first battle as a General he won (Assaye), which he had an army of 4,500 Indian and British troops against 47,000 Marathas. He attacked from a place that the Marathas didn't expect him to approach from and by tiem the Marathas had re-organised themselves it was too late. Wellesley's first victory as a commander of an army and fighing an army in open field.
He cared a lot for his men, Wellesley was reported to have cried at the sight of all the dead and wounded after the storming of the fortress town of Badajoz.
His greatest talant was probably his eye for ground. At Waterloo he saw a low ridge that most people would regard as flat.
He was a great general and a good leader of men, we need more like him today. |