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re: Worst US General of all time?
Posted on 5/29/19 at 12:19 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Posted on 5/29/19 at 12:19 am to TigerFanInSouthland
McClellan had a real knack for always doing the exact wrong thing requires by the situation. By far the most demonstrably incompetent general in US history. He even had the gall to challenge Abe Lincoln for president based on his own terrible record.
Horatio Gates was awful as well. Similar amount of delusion + incompetence going on.
Horatio Gates was awful as well. Similar amount of delusion + incompetence going on.
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Posted on 5/29/19 at 1:59 am to Mr Personality
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You call me a drunk liband I’ll call you a racist. There we go.
The point is, drunk or not, you’re fricking way off on your thoughts about Douglas MacArthur. It might even be because you are drunk.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 3:07 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Beauregard
Bragg
Bragg
Posted on 5/29/19 at 3:21 am to Obtuse1
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I know this was mainly directed at one person but that statement really gets under my skin. I am a liberal and earned a CIB.
Thanks for your service. I have one too...with a star, but if you support the democrat party of today, then you can promptly gfy.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 3:29 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Joseph E. Johnston
Had Vicksburg not fallen due to his inaction the civil war would have come to a more equatable end and that would have been much better long term for both parties.
Had Vicksburg not fallen due to his inaction the civil war would have come to a more equatable end and that would have been much better long term for both parties.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 4:14 am to Mr Personality
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And I still don’t care some Japs killed your grandpa
This right here is fricked up here. People have no boundaries anymore.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 5:58 am to Scoop
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U.S. Grant
Read the biography by Chernow and you will find his faults lay not as a general but as a person (too trusting, drunkard).
Good general, poor fellow otherwise.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:18 am to Cold Drink
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McClellan had a real knack for always doing the exact wrong thing requires by the situation. By far the most demonstrably incompetent general in US history. He even had the gall to challenge Abe Lincoln for president based on his own terrible record.
Just look at Antietam and that’s all you need to know about McClellan as a battlefield general.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:30 am to DragginFly
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Benedict Arnold.
On the field he was good. Ethically he was a bastard.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:32 am to Scoop
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U.S. Grant
Don't let you Lost Cause hatred of the Yankees cloud your judgment. Grant's successes in the Civil War speaks for itself.
He basically won the war in both the Western and Eastern theaters.
This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 6:33 am
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:34 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Well Burnside did have a pretty epic stache.
So he at least had that going for him.
So he at least had that going for him.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:35 am to LB84
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Benedict Arnold.
On the field he was good. Ethically he was a bastard.
Instead of erecting a monument to Benedict Arnold at Saratoga, they erected a monument to his leg where he suffered a wound in the battle. Nowhere on the monument do they mention Arnold by name.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:41 am to DragginFly
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Benedict Arnold
No shite. I don’t think there’s a close second.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:44 am to OMLandshark
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No shite. I don’t think there’s a close second.
He was a key part in the victory at Saratoga which gave the French faith that we could achieve major victories against the British on our own.
This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 6:47 am
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:51 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Ricardo Sanchez, bad general and a coward too.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:55 am to LB84
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He was a key part in the victory at Saratoga which gave the French faith that we could achieve major victories against the British on our own.
He sold out the entire country though, which entirely undermined this to a glorious degree.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 6:56 am to OMLandshark
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He sold out the entire country though, which entirely undermined this to a glorious degree.
Except the whole point that we may have never won the Revolution without the victory at Saratoga.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 7:04 am to OMLandshark
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He sold out the entire country though, which entirely undermined this to a glorious degree.
True, but his contributions at Saratoga cannot be debated. There's a reason why they still chose to honor his leg at Saratoga and why they honor him at West Point simply as a "major general, born 1740".
Posted on 5/29/19 at 7:09 am to LSUERDOC
quote:Go on...
I have one too...with a star
Posted on 5/29/19 at 7:17 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Wes Clark ranks up there
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