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Post by Jean Lannes on Oct 3, 2015 4:58:01 GMT
no boy it's FELDMARSCHALL Erwin Johannes eugen Rommel Ask the Deutsch  It's Generalfeldmarschall, quoting Wikipedia here "In 1942, three other men were promoted—"Wüstenfuchs" (desert fox) Erwin Rommel (22 June) for the siege of Tobruk..." from en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalfeldmarschall I'm fluent in German, if you should have any questions ask me. And yes he was a Generalfeldmarschall |
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Oct 3, 2015 4:59:50 GMT
Dang it I forgot the general  Anyways the real thing is this GENERALFELDMARSCHALL. Hope y'all be happy with it |
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Post by best75 on Oct 3, 2015 5:01:59 GMT
Sun Tzu for writing an awesome book.
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Post by Haelicon on Oct 3, 2015 5:03:35 GMT
Sun Tzu for writing an awesome book. I have the copy of The Art of War . And I heard it is still used by Chinese Generals even some of American and British Generals. |
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Post by Suvorov on Oct 3, 2015 17:43:11 GMT
Suvorov for never losing a battle
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Post by NetherFreek on Oct 3, 2015 17:50:55 GMT
it must be.... WINKELMAN. No srsly not hes noob  . ill go for our german friends... rommel was great un the desert so ill pick him |
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Post by General William T. Sherman on Oct 3, 2015 18:03:45 GMT
My favorite person from history is FDR, but my favorite general...that's hard to say. I'm going to say either Ulysses S. Grant or Karl Mannerheim of Finland. Grant was one of the few successful Union generals of the American Civil War and absolutely destroyed the Confederates in almost every battle he fought in. He adopted Total War, which meant aiming to destroy everything the enemy had, whether it be food, supplies, weapons, anything. This was shown in his conquest of Vicksburg in 1863. Vicksburg was seen as 'impossible' to capture. He took it in a few weeks due to cutting the supplies off to the city. General William Tecumseh Sherman then also adopted these tactics in his March to the Sea in 1864, which obliterated virtually all industry in Georgia, a very key area of the Confederacy. Mannerheim, however, was able to defend Finland against the Soviets in 1939 with infinitely less men than the Soviets and far less equipment. If not for him, it's likely Finland would become a satellite state of the USSR or completely annexed back into it. Not to mention, he fought against both the Soviets and the Nazis, fighting the Soviets in the Winter War and Continuation War, and ridding Finland of the Nazis in the Lapland War. And he WON against both! (They didn't win in the Continuation War, but they still won against the god damn Soviet Union!)
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Post by Mountbatten on Oct 3, 2015 18:08:33 GMT
Ah yes Sun Tzu. I wonder if the Sun family during the Three Kingdoms Era is descended from him.
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Post by Mountbatten on Oct 3, 2015 18:11:27 GMT
All jokes aside, my favorite person isn't Mountbatten (WHAT?) My favorite person is... Mountbatten's father because he created Mountbatten |
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Post by Jean Lannes on Oct 3, 2015 20:26:18 GMT
Suvorov for never losing a battle I would have loved and hated to know what happend if he was fighting Napoleon in the Coalition Wars. Loved because I want to see his skill level. Hated because imo Napoleon>the rest |
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Post by saltin on Oct 4, 2015 0:08:18 GMT
Since this thread here scope is limited to favorite person in history which can be just a civilian or an inventor ect.. we should make a new thread examining the military records of Suvorov as compare to the other great generals.
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Post by Suvorov on Oct 4, 2015 12:17:42 GMT
My favorite person from history is FDR, but my favorite general...that's hard to say. I'm going to say either Ulysses S. Grant or Karl Mannerheim of Finland. Grant was one of the few successful Union generals of the American Civil War and absolutely destroyed the Confederates in almost every battle he fought in. He adopted Total War, which meant aiming to destroy everything the enemy had, whether it be food, supplies, weapons, anything. This was shown in his conquest of Vicksburg in 1863. Vicksburg was seen as 'impossible' to capture. He took it in a few weeks due to cutting the supplies off to the city. General William Tecumseh Sherman then also adopted these tactics in his March to the Sea in 1864, which obliterated virtually all industry in Georgia, a very key area of the Confederacy. Mannerheim, however, was able to defend Finland against the Soviets in 1939 with infinitely less men than the Soviets and far less equipment. If not for him, it's likely Finland would become a satellite state of the USSR or completely annexed back into it. Not to mention, he fought against both the Soviets and the Nazis, fighting the Soviets in the Winter War and Continuation War, and ridding Finland of the Nazis in the Lapland War. And he WON against both! (They didn't win in the Continuation War, but they still won against the god damn Soviet Union!) Mannerheim is a great one too, but he fought against incompetent generals during the Winter War with bigger moustaches than brains and the Soviets didn't even have the right uniforms! It was just a moloch waiting to be crushed. Fins were much better prepared. In 1944 they got their Finnish asses kicked during Operation Bagration however |
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Post by Suvorov on Oct 4, 2015 12:18:18 GMT
Since this thread here scope is limited to favorite person in history which can be just a civilian or an inventor ect.. we should make a new thread examining the military records of Suvorov as compare to the other great generals. You're giving me an idea. I currently have too much free time... |
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Post by Mountbatten on Oct 4, 2015 12:35:40 GMT
Mustaches bigger than their brains?
ROFL
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Post by Jean Lannes on Oct 5, 2015 3:08:03 GMT
Wrong uniforms? This reminds me of something called "France in WWI"
And the bigger mustache than brain would also apply to any Turkish generals.
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. ill go for our german friends... rommel was great un the desert so ill pick him
