Best 18th Century European Commander

Best 18th Century European Commander

  • Carolus Rex!

    Votes: 4 4.3%
  • Peter the Great

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Prinz Eugen

    Votes: 13 14.1%
  • Marlborough(win with winnie)

    Votes: 16 17.4%
  • Maurice de Saxe

    Votes: 5 5.4%
  • Frederick der Große

    Votes: 34 37.0%
  • Washington(plz no)

    Votes: 10 10.9%
  • Robert Clive

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • Potemkin

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 5 5.4%

  • Total voters
    92

TFSmith121

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I'd give Suvarov the nod for the Eighteenth and

He faced tougher enemies, certainly, but he also had more resources at his own disposal. When he was facing genuinely insurmountable odds -- in the Hundred Days, say, or in 1814 -- that was generally because of his own previous mistakes.

I'd probably give Suvarov the nod for the Eighteenth and Napoleon (I) the laurels for the Nineteenth.

Twentieth, even if one limits it to military commanders at the theater level, gets tougher. Just too many variables...

Best,
 
I'd just like to point out that my personal ranking of Fredrick, then Marlborough, then Prince Eugene is also the result of the poll. Yay me.
 
Eugene, the only reason not to vote is his spectacular 17th century career is part excluded.

Fritz Marlborough close but fritz.

Only is you exclude Nappy and the french revolutionary commanders.
 
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