Blackhorse -> (2/8/2002 1:37:00 PM)
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For the Americans, I'd have to nominate Ulysses Simpson Grant. While some military historians have given Grant his due -- J.F.C. Fuller considered Grant the greatest American military commander -- his popular image is still that of a "butcher" who wore out the Confederates simply because he outnumbered them. But Grant:
1.Captured 12,000 Confederates at Ft. Donelson. 2. Captured 23,000 Confederates at Vicksburg, after orchestrating one of the two most brilliant campaigns of maneuver (Jackson in the Valley in 1862 was the other)in the war. 3. Captured R.E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia where other worthies and not-so-worthies (McClellan, Pope, McClellan again, Burnside, Hooker, Meade) had failed. 4. Broke the Confederate siege of Chattanooga. 5. Designed the Grand Strategy the Union used to win the war in 1864-65.
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