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To be blunt, Americans tend to overhype in their history, 80% of WW2 happened in Russia but you learn US saved the game, the same is with the civil war, commanders who are relatively competent at best are sold as some sort of geniuses. Quote:
Napoleonic era saw armies similar in size and battles far far larger it also saw lots of truly briliant commanders, the equipment was not yet ahead of its time either, the harsh truth is America all throught history does not have a single truly briliant commander (no Washington was not good.) Speaking of Napoleonics Joachim Murat deserves a place for being downright awesome. |
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He killed the republic. While already rotting, he was the final nail in the coffin. He time and again was outnumbered, not only by barbarians, but Roman Legion commanded by equals - Pompey and Labienus and he prevailed. Quote:
Here is the link for it: http://www.archive.org/stream/greatc...0dodg_djvu.txt [If my link isn't trusted due to my name, Google "Great captains : a course of six lectures showing the influence on the art of war of the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Cæsar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick, and Napoleon", it's one of the first links] It's a fairly interesting read. Quote:
But something like this was inevitable. The economic, manpower and logistical capabilities of the Union far exceeded anything the Confederacy could ever even dream of; they never had a chance. Edit: It is also interesting to note that most (but not all) great commanders mentioned here did not answer to a higher [political] authority. Even Lee was virtually independent and even offered a temporary military dictatorship... Edit 2: Also one man who is rarely mentioned [anywhere]: Tomoyuki Yamashita - perhaps the only general in WW2 who did not suffer a defeat? He captured a British & Australian force more than 4 times his number... |
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King Soloman! Defeated the Philistene Army without firing a shot . The Knowledge by having faith in God proves that not all wars can be won by offensive aggretion,and hatred of your enemy. Standing ones ground in defence of faith has inflicted more harm to an invading army than the element of surprise.
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