re: Born on this day 202 years ago…

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Clearly you are a military history buff. Who do most military historians think is the best general the US has had?

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Kind of depends on how you define “best”.

Washington was the most tenacious and the best politician. MacArthur was seriously gifted even if he had a few huge blunders. Jackson was audacious. So on and so forth.

Grant understood modern warfare far better than any of his contemporaries - he understood the strategic, the economic / industrial, the logistical, the public relations, the political, and the social aspects of total warfare and how they all fit together much, much better than anyone else of his era and better than only a handful of others in any era. That was his ultimate gift. I don’t have any issue calling him the greatest in American history. If he’s not on top, he’s certainly on the very shortest of lists.