POST YOUR TOP 5 FAVORITE MILITARY COMMANDERS...AND WHY?

[AndrewLC]

my top 5 commanders are

4. Arthur Wellesley - beat napoleon. nuff said

Haha for a second I thought you said Arthur Weasley
Also, don't you mean Wellington?

Mine are:
1. Alexander the Great
2. Scipio
3. Julius Caesar
4. Hannibal
5. Wellington

He was the Duke OF Wellington, not his last name.

hannibal
washington (george)
augustus
the great
napolean(dynamite)

You're f'ing kidding me, right?

Oh yeah, my knowlage in that era is a bit off. I mainly read about Greek/Roman times

You and me both, but military History in General Interests me.

Same here, I'm just not nearly as good at anything past medieval times.

[Begbie]

1. Admiral Horatio Nelson
2. Alexander the Great
3. Rommel
4. Julius Cesar
5. Hannibal

Honourable mention - Air Vice Marshall Keith Park (commander RAF Battle of Britain and a good New Zealander)

Left field - Ernest Rutherford (split the atom and made generals obsolete - and another good New Zealander)

Worst - Haig by a country mile

[Titanic]

1) Wellington

2) Napoleon

3) Montgomery

4) Caesar

5) Hannibal

[ZawBanjito]

Miyamoto Musashi (the only real person on my list )

Grand Admiral Thrawn (no comment necessary)

Wedge Antilles (mostly because of his Defense of Borleias during the Yuuzhan Vong war)

Richard Rahl (for avoiding the final battle in "Phantom")

Malcom Reynolds (the final battle in "Serenity" is brilliant piece of strategy )

Fool! Musashi wasn't a commander of man! He was a warrior of the soul! Thrawn?! Overrated! It was the weakness of the Republic that gave him his edge. Antilles... you can have that one.

Who the hell is Richard Rahl?

Reynolds? *cough*deusexmachina*cough*

[Norse]

Pope benedict II

Germaine Greer

Denzil Washington

Jack the Ripper

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