re: Greatest Military leader of all time?

Scipio was undefeated against Hannibal.

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we would of gotten a treaty.

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3..Stonewall Jackson- outstanding leader and the South's finest corps commander, had he lived might the South have won at Gettysburg? Very likely.

Had he lived Gettysburg would not have happened. He would of told Lee to just keep playing defense. Draw the war out, and eventually we would of gotten a treaty. That or the British show up.

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Don't agree with your statement about Stonewall and playing defense. Jackson was a very agressive commander and was actually pushing Confederate authorities to invade the North as early as 1862. Strike quick, strike hard and punish the North and the Northern people was Jackson's desire.
Longstreet was the general that adhered to defensive philosophy. He disagreed with Lee's agressive stance at Gettysburg.

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Had he lived Gettysburg would not have happened. He would of told Lee to just keep playing defense. Draw the war out, and eventually we would of gotten a treaty. That or the British show up.

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All Lee had to do was listen to Longstreet. It's ironic that Jackson was his hammer and Longstreet was the anvil. But even with Jackson dead, Lee still insisted on attacking with Longstreet's corps. Longstreet's heart wasn't in it and he performed badly.

Had Lee listened to Longstreet Gettysburg probably does not happen...Newt Gingrich co authored an alternate history series on this very subject that was extremely plausible. Longstreet talked Lee into flanking The Army of the Potomac and they did so, seizing the North's supply hub at Westminster and entrenching on Meade's original intended defensive site at Pipe Creek. Meade was forced to attack and the Union Army was crushed.

But the South did not win the war. Lincoln refused to give in Grant came east and the manpower and industrial might of the North still prevailed.

Had Jackson lived he could have made a big difference on Day 1, seizing Culp's Hill with his far more aggressive tactics. Gettysburg was probably Lee's worst battle of the war, it should have never happened.

But one man never gets much blame and probably should get his fair share, which would be a LOT. That man is J.E.B. Stuart. Had he done his job screening the Army of Northern Virginia from the prying eyes of Buford and kept Lee informed as he should have of Meade's taking command and subsequent movements, this battle does not happen.

Gaius Marius.

In one battle,Marius led 40,000 Roman soldiers against 120,000 at Aquae Sextiae against the feared Germanic tribes who had been having their way with one Roman General after another. Marius killed or captured 110,000 of the enemy, losing less than 1,000 of his own troops.