Who do you think are the unsung military figures in history? People who do not get enough credit or people we might not have heard of? For my part i think General Slim.

Battle of Thermopylae is sometimes overlooked..


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Originally Posted by battery

Battle of Thermopylae is sometimes overlooked..


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battle of thermopylae is basic history knowledge u get in elementary school,how is it overlooked?

What about the mongol subati?

Originally Posted by Marksman

battle of thermopylae is basic history knowledge u get in elementary school,how is it overlooked?

Maybe in the Baltic states, but I'd bet less than 1 in 300 Americans could even correctly identify what part of the world Thermopole is in, much less what happened there.

Originally Posted by Whispering Death

Maybe in the Baltic states, but I'd bet less than 1 in 300 Americans could even correctly identify what part of the world Thermopole is in, much less what happened there.

How about Air Chief Marshal Lord Hugh Dowding who was in charge of the RAF fighter command during the Battle of Britain?



The other would be General Lee Sun-shin who, with his 12 ships, sank over 100 Japanese ships without firing a single shot. He cleverly used the study of tides and currents to lure the Japanese into a trap. He let mother nature take care of everything else.

Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck

How about Air Chief Marshal Lord Hugh Dowding who was in charge of the RAF fighter command during the Battle of Britain?



The other would be General Lee Sun-shin who, with his 12 ships, sank over 100 Japanese ships without firing a single shot. He cleverly used the study of tides and currents to lure the Japanese into a trap. He let mother nature take care of everything else.

I've not heard of General Lee Sun-shin (although what he did sounds pretty amazing) but Air Marshall Lord Dowding is a good choice.

When you say overlooked I assume you mean by the general public at large? In that case the following guys are well overlooked:

Subotai
Heinz Guderian
Erich von Manstein
Leonidas
Hans Ulrich Rudel

Apologies if my choices are WW2 loaded but that's the subject I know most about.

the strategist from the three kingdoms : ZHuGeLiang

he was a brillant tactician, especially in the use of fire, in which he first suggeste teh use of gunpowder. his plans were brillant and he had a 99% win during his entire life

I've actually heard that name... probably because I've read some of that stuff ages ago.
Can't remember much though.