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ADVERTISEMENT This list is specifically limited to the period between the beginning of the Spanish War of Succession and the end of the Second World War, and is restricted to generals who were born in the British Isles. There are some controversial additions and the ranking is purely my own personal opinion. 10. Henry Rawlinson [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Obviously, soldiers have amongst the most dangerous jobs in the world. When it’s not the enemy, friendly fire, weather, or disease that gets them, their commanding officers step in to endanger them through stupidity. Now imagine being one of the soldiers under the commanders who ordered things this stupid: 10. Build Those Defenses… Backwards! The [...]
Posted by Dustin Koski on Friday, December 2, 2011 at 12:01 am
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In war, there are winners and losers. Sometimes an army is defeated because they simply faced a larger and more powerful foe. Other times they lose because of some bizarre set of circumstances no one could have foreseen, or because they were simply outwitted by a cunning adversary. Sometimes an army is even dealt a [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, People · Tagged 1st Earl Haig, Admiral, adolf hitler, Africa, aggressive and capable commander, Ambrose Burnside, Army, artillery officer, author, bad General, bad officer, Baghdad, Bataan, Bataan,Philippines, Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Verdun, British Army, British Expeditionary Force in France, British knights, Busan,South Korea, Butcher, Caen, Colorado, Colorado,United States, commander, competent military commander, Confederate Army, Congress, cuba, decent military governor, Denver, Denver,Colorado,United States, Doug MacArthur, Douglas Haig, Douglas MacArthur, egypt, El Alamein, El Alamein,Matruh,Egypt, Erwin Rommel, Field Marshall, France, French Army, French government, General, George Armstrong Custer, George B. McClellan, George McClellan, German army, Germany, good military leader, Guinea, Gunichi Mikawa, head, Honor, incompetent commander, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Japanese Navy, Joe Hooker, Joseph Stalin, Korea, Kuwait, Leyte Gulf, Libbie, Like Hitler, Lincoln, Marshall Bernard Montgomery, Marshall Erwin Rommel, Mexican Army, Mexico, military commander, military leader, military officer, Military personnel, military strategist, Military strategy, Napoleon, Netherlands, Newfoundland Regiment, North Africa, North Korean Army, officer, PEARL HARBOR, Persian Gulf, Philippines, president, presidential election, Pusan, quality commander, Robert Georges Nivelle, Robert Nivelle, Roosevelt, Ruhr Valley, Saddam Hussein, Santa Anna, Santa Anna,Texas,United States, satellite state, Sicily, Sicily,Italy, Solomon Islands, The Netherlands, the Philippines, truman, Union army, Union General, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States, United States Navy, War_Conflict, Washington, Washington,United States, www.ourcuriousworld.com
World War I will be remembered as one of the bloodiest wars in human history. Millions of soldiers died on both sides, and whole generations of young men were wiped out. Armies were bogged down in impenetrable trenches, resulting in thousands dying in futile assaults against fortified enemies. The war also introduced new and terrible [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 12:01 am
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