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March 11th, 2011, 07:06 AM
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#1 | | Archivist
Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 115 | Who is your favorite general and why
Please keep response to a minium length let's say 100 -200 words just so i can read them all without spending forever.
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March 11th, 2011, 07:07 AM
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#2 | | Man in the Box ¤ Blog of the Year ¤
Joined: Oct 2009 From: Baltimorean-in-exile Posts: 16,601 |
When you say favorite, are you asking for the man we like the most, out of all those who happened to be generals? Or the man that we feel was the best general?
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March 11th, 2011, 07:55 AM
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#3 | | This title is too lo
Joined: Apr 2010 From: T'Republic of Yorkshire Posts: 15,956 | Quote:
Originally Posted by pruittj744  Please keep response to a minium length let's say 100 -200 words just so i can read them all without spending forever. | You could also do a search for other threads on the same topic and read the responses there.
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March 11th, 2011, 08:01 AM
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#4 | | Historian
Joined: Apr 2010 From: Loch na Seilg, Alba Posts: 2,584 |
Somhairle Mor MacGillebridge. Was a guerrilla leader who ended a transatlantic empire and turned the tide of the Norse assault on Scotland.
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March 11th, 2011, 11:15 AM
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#5 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 23,826 |
I don't have 'one'.
Robert E. Lee
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
P. Beauregard
Hiram B. Grandury
Benjamin McCulloch
J.E.B. Stuart
John B. Hood
John S. Mosby
James Longstreet
N.B. Forrest
Albert S. Johnston
All fought for a cause they felt was worth sacrificing, suffering and dying for.
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March 11th, 2011, 11:31 AM
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#6 | | Southern Unionist
Joined: Aug 2010 From: VA Posts: 5,226 |
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
George H. Thomas
John "Black Jack" Logan
George G. Meade
Winfield S. Hancock
John Buford
James H. Wilson
G. K. Warren
Alpheus S. Williams
John Gibbon
William S. Rosecrans
Benjamin Butler was pretty beast as well.
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Last edited by Viperlord; March 11th, 2011 at 11:48 AM.
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March 11th, 2011, 11:52 AM
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#7 | | Tiger of Kai
Joined: Apr 2010 From: Tampa, FL Posts: 5,147 |
Takeda Shingen
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March 11th, 2011, 12:27 PM
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#8 | | Fiddling as Rome Burns
Joined: Apr 2008 From: Hyperborea Posts: 7,050 |
Favourite.
John Lilburne
Thomas Rainsborough
Pancho Villa
Bill Slim
Caractacus
Spartacus
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March 11th, 2011, 06:29 PM
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#9 | | the governed self
Joined: Jan 2007 From: Nebraska Posts: 10,292 |
I like Wendell Fertig. He was really only a colonel, but he cut out some stars from tin and wore those. His plan would not have worked unless everyone thought he was a general. So.
The Japanese had him down as commanding the 10th Army Group. You just can't make this stuff up!
(Sorry about the wrong image. That's Amazon's fault.)
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March 11th, 2011, 06:36 PM
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#10 | | Historian
Joined: Dec 2010 From: Newfoundland Posts: 1,934 |
Frederick the Great.
He is surrounded on all sides by four enemies and he is just all like "Back up! Back up!" and the next minute Berlin is being invaded and he is all like "Britain, could use some help here!" And they are like "Yeh we busys having adventures in North America"
So some years later Britain looks back to see Frederick standing over the fallen enemies, from the brink of defeat to total victory. He just wipes the dust off his pants and lights a cigar and goes home with a group of beautiful women.
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