Who was the greatest general in your country's history?
This is Field Marshal John Monash, who led the Australian forces at the end of the first world war and is credited with expediting the end of the war.
I don't want to say Rommel but I can't think of anyone else. Maybe Lettow-Vorbeck.
I'm gonna say Gustav II Adolf.
>have to choose between a Zoroastrian, Jew or Sikh.
guess the country.
It is really hard to pick just one general but I'm gonna choose Suvorov
Probably Arthur Currie
>>2153801
This desu
>>2153398
john churchill the duke of marlborough, the greatest general of his age
>tfw the greatest general in your country's history is the greatest general in history
>>2153398
I like Ike
>>2154726
How can he be the greatest general in history when he lost, and his dream of a French Empire across the continent went to shit?
>inb4 won more battles
Under that standard, you could say Montgomery was the greatest general of all time, since modern warfare has more daily battles that Napoleon's age did.
>Nathan Bedford Forrest Gump
>William T. Sherman
>Thomas Stonewall Jackson
>Robert E. Lee
Probably either Lee or Jackson being GOAT though
>>2153398
Ours is Prins Maurits, who BTFO'd the Spanish and reformed the army.
First general best general.
>>2153589
Can you claim von Clausewitz?
>>2154829
He lost most of his battles though.
His genius wasn't in military strategy as much as it was in the basic principle that the side that persevered in the war, despite suffering humiliating setbacks, was going to win. Granted guerrilla tactics don't win wars, he still managed to exhaust and frustrate the Tories to the point where they started making careless strategic blunders on the open battlefield, culminating in their defeat at Saratoga.
I know it's cliche to say at this point though, but without France, Spain, and the Netherlands joining the war against Britain, the war would've continued for much longer. I doubt the loyalists could've ever won though, primarily because they would've had to reduce and denigrate the American colonies well past the point of them being economically beneficial just to hold onto them.