The forgotten men of history.

Driftless

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Gen Dan Morgan - Continental & US Army

Skilled tactical leader during the American Revolution. He understood how to effectively employ rifle fire during the smoothbore era, and his common sense understanding of the comparative capabilities of militia vs regular forces and capitalize on those differences set him above many of his contemporaries
 
Richard Lyons, Britain's minister to the United States throughout the Civil War. Quick as people are to heap praise on the American politicians, they forget that it was Lyons who strongly advocated for tact and understanding, even going beyond his duties during the Trent Crisis while managing frosty relations in Washington with an increasingly belligerent American government with good grace.
 
Gen Dan Morgan - Continental & US Army

Skilled tactical leader during the American Revolution. He understood how to effectively employ rifle fire during the smoothbore era, and his common sense understanding of the comparative capabilities of militia vs regular forces and capitalize on those differences set him above many of his contemporaries

Yeah, it's strange that Morgan is largely forgotten in history.
 

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Maybe under-recognized and under-valued Rangers of the colonial era in North America

Robert Rogers of "Roger's Rangers". Literally wrote the book on small unit rough country tactics. Effective British Colonial forces leader on the frontier during the French & Indian Wars.

George Rogers Clark lead (US) Continental Rangers on a wide-ranging and successful campaign that played a key role in securing what is now the upper Midwestern states for the US-to-be, during the American Revolution. His brother William Clark (the Lewis & Clark Expedition) has far greater renown.
 

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James Clerk Maxwell. Scottish Physicist. Another man of some renown, but perhaps grossly under-appreciated by the general public for the impact his work had on science and scientists to follow.

His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics. Many physicists regard Maxwell as the 19th-century scientist having the greatest influence on 20th-century physics.
 
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Dirk

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My choices:

My favorite one is Eumenes of Cardia. Chief imperial secretary under ALexander The Great who had only recently commanded the household cavalry in a single small engagement. Became Perdiccas' chief commander, killed the experienced general Craterus, beat up on the others in the area, was nearly destroyed, cunningly escaped from Nora to raise an army in the east where he defeated Antigonus twice. On the second time he defeated him, Antigonus managed to capture the baggage train, and through a deal with the Silver Shields, got them to betray Eumenes and hand him over. Overall, he nearly single handedly held the empire together, being completely loyal to the Argead line.

Jumping Jesus, he's a secondary character in Mary Renault's Funeral Games, and yet there's no mention of this badassery!
 
Jumping Jesus, he's a secondary character in Mary Renault's Funeral Games, and yet there's no mention of this badassery!
Did I also mention part of the way he got the Macedonian generals to support him was he basically set up a tent and whenever they met, they would meet in this tent which, he claimed, had Alexander watching over them (IIRC, he claimed he was acting under the auspices of Alexander's spirit basically). When you're a Greek among Macedonians, you gotta do what you gotta do.
 
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