A.P. Richelieu
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That is what I thought.
Lots of bravado, but when the game is over you held a pair of Twos, against a Full House...
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On a more serious note a craftsmen can win 50 battles but only a van Gogh can win 50 battles against a numerically and qualitatively superior foe.That is what I thought.
Lots of bravado, but when the game is over you held a pair of Twos, against a Full House...
Was he the same General who used Missiles and Drone technology ?
Just we have to remember he won in different terrains from desert to swamps, to mountains. I believe he was the first to introduce a effective method of neutralizing elephants.Alexander the Great by a wide margin. No doubt about it.
hahaha... i know i put your pichwara on fire...Yes, and no. Most of the drones landed up on PDF, asking questions about Generals who used Missiles and Drone technology.
Alexander the Great by a wide margin. No doubt about it.
hahaha... i know i put your pichwara on fire...
One of those questions which has no real definitive answer. I voted for Subedei as his campaign in Europe especially was impressive but just as convincing arguments can be made for several others on the list.
That was not the case in the few battles I checked.On a more serious note a craftsmen can win 50 battles but only a van Gogh can win 50 battles against a numerically and qualitatively superior foe.
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The important word is MAYThat was not the case in the few battles I checked.
Also, battles presented as beeing against numerical and qualitatively foes, may be just propaganda.
Mahmood GhaznaviTamerlane.
Genghis Khan.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Take your pick.
Yes, and the credibility of any event where sources are scarce is automatically reduced.The important word is MAY
Actually IMO it's kind of like comparing apples and oranges to try and compare these generals who lived through different eras, circumstances, challenges, geographies, armies(weapons, tactics, etc. of the time). So it really makes no sense to declare one better than the other(from the list provided above).
With that said, I would pick Hannibal Barca as the earliest general(from this list) to have achieved marvelous feats. His army was made up of mercenaries and various different groups from vassal states of the Phoenicians. In comparison the Romans had a much better uniformly trained and bigger military at their disposal...and yet they suffered losses after losses. Hannibal even managed to encircle a bigger army(the first known occurrence of this) and delivered a crushing defeat. He was so successful that it took a Roman general(Scipio Africanus) to carefully study and use Hannibal's own tactics to defeat him.
I know that Alexander the Great precedes Hannibal(from this list of generals). However Alexander inherited a well trained military from his father Phillip. Also other than the Persian empire, there was no other empire significant enough to challenge Alexander. Once the Persian empire fell, it meant mostly smooth sailing onwards. Darius III was incompetent and was too confident in his superior numbers. This isn't to belittle Alexander's brilliance, it's just that he faced less uphill battles than Hannibal did. He also had a more professional army to command compared to what Hannibal had under his command.
So while I still think it's not valid to compare these generals bcuz it involves a whole lot of different variables...but if I was to pick one I think it should be based on the earliest general who faced the most uphill battles and came out on top...
Based on that criteria I pick Hannibal Barca as the earliest(from this list) to invent tactics brilliant enough to win uphill battles.
It's kind of like how a few ppl independently invented calculus and they are all indeed brilliant for having the ability to do so...but the credit still goes to the one who was able to do it first.