The Greatest American General of All Time?

YellowSnow

RaceBannon

Grant

Hard to go against the Father of the country but Grant helped save it

YellowSnow

Grant

RaceBannon said:

Hard to go against the Father of the country but Grant helped save it

Washington’s greatest achievement as a general was keeping an Army in the field which alone makes him one of the greatest figures in history. But his greatest triumph over the Brits took a lot of luck and French help.

Grant to your point, pretty much single handed saved the Union and was both a brilliant tactical general and master grand strategist. Lee was former, but not the later.

DerekJohnson

Worshington

RaceBannon said:

Hard to go against the Father of the country but Grant helped save it

Grant ain't walking back through that door anytime soon

YellowSnow

Grant

DerekJohnson said:

RaceBannon said:

Hard to go against the Father of the country but Grant helped save it

Grant ain't walking back through that door anytime soon

Well yeah. That kinda life story doesn’t happen anymore. People don’t go from selling cordwood in St Louis to POTUS in the span of a decade anymore.

YellowSnow

Grant

Honorable mentions...

Phil Sheridan
Winfield Scott
Omar Bradley
Black Jack Pershing
Storming Norman
Zachary Taylor

Mad_Son

Sherman

Write in for the sweatpants general.

Tequilla

Patton

Patton was the definition of talking shit and his boys backing it up

DerekJohnson

Worshington

Mad_Son said:

Write in for the sweatpants general.

@koopdog

biak1

Worshington

Washington dammit. The other guys really just had to not fuck things up and they’d eventually win with manpower/materiel/resource advantages.

As college football shows us you still get credit for not fucking things up. But GW won independence and popped off.

HFNY

Ike

biak1 said:

Washington dammit. The other guys really just had to not fuck things up and they’d eventually win with manpower/materiel/resource advantages.

As college football shows us you still get credit for not fucking things up. But GW won independence and popped off.

True though someone like Ike had much more complicated logistics and headaches of humans (such as Montgomery and De Gaulle). Eisenhower's brilliance was also in taking action while not feeling the need to show off tactical genius. He wasn't afraid to sack under-performing lower generals either.

Still I think you're right in that GW's odds of success were so low yet he miraculously found a way to get the job done strategically and tactically.

Grant was excellent too, GW and he were both considered the best horsemen of their respective times.