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Well that is a coincidence...I just finished reading Gates of Fire Friday night. ... http://greetings.yahoo.com/browse/Events_and_Occasions/Anniversaries/ ... ...
i just joined this group, and just wanted to say hello. I am very interested in great stragegists such as Hannibal and Tokugawa, though I am just beginning to...
... though ... you've ... Hi and welcome aboard. The movie is based on an epic novel by Steven Pressfield. Talks about the battle of Thrmopylae (480bc). Pretty...
I would like everyone's oppinion on this: Who was the greater strategist; Hannibal, or Caesar? My personal oppinion is Hannibal (he bent the unwritten rules...
Yes, i do. It doesn't matter whether he lost or not. Can't win them all. Before making his battle plan, he took into account the terrain, the weather, and...
Isn't there also some debate about Caesar exagerating the numbers of his forces? However I believe they are right to a certain extent, it is the score at full...
The Alps crossing has been overdone, but in a couple of lines I think it was a necessary cost to achieve a strategic surprise of such magnitude. In other words...
Should we throw the question open to who was the bast strategist of all time? Alexander, Caesar and Hannibal would be to obvious three, who else? Richard and ...
In response to Miltos' comment, the Alps crossing was not nessecary. It was most likely the worst (and probably the only) mistake Hannibal ever made. He...
Lachlan, My vote would go to Ghengis Khan for the sheer size of the armies and the distances which they covered. Tamurlane's campaigns are pretty impressive...
Well! When you beleive in your superior army.... strategy and tacticts paly the least role! The greatest undefeated general in history... Alexander the Great...
He did obliterate the Roman Army in the Punic War. Twice. What alot of people fail to realize, or notice, or ignore is that the Roman mindset was such they...
... Hannibal would have to be the greatest Strategist/Tactician. He was a General who knew exactly how to consistently win the day against all odds and a...
Well, sadly, Troy at least will be rather more Xena than Homer, or indeed anything else remotely historical. A few of the costumes for Alexander do look...
Lee lost but how many would say Grant was a better strategist? ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web...
... plan, he took into account the terrain, the weather, and what the extremely predictable Romans would do. If his army hadn't been weakened by the trek...
... Dear Dimitris, While you are right to be proud of Greek history! please remember Greek or any other history is no heavier or lighter than an other...
Can't win them all? You must win the last battle otherwise you may end up like Hannibal - living in exile waiting for your host to betray you to your enemies -...
Ken - No one has mentioned the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Persians because they used size and strength rather than tactics to overcome their enemies. On another...
The thread started as a discussion of strategy and, as you have correctly pointed out, I have not considered other factors, which may have had a great...
I would add many less flashy figures in history. For strategy (though I am loathe to admit it)it would be hard to beat Epaminondas, talk about changing the...
You have a very excellent point, Bardunias. Those men, especially Lysander and Epaminodas, were the first to use truely original strategies. Allthough their...
