Based on a discussion in the Chat thread. Poll rules:
1. You may each have up to three votes. Voting will be open until next Sunday evening.
2. On Sunday, the five lowest ranking generals will be removed from the poll, and voting can begin again in earnest.
3. This will continue, until AH.com can establish a consensus. An impossible feat? I hope to prove it is not neccesarily so.
I'll post the list below. Post your three choices, and I will tally them up next to names.
1. Thutmose III, Egyptian Pharoah
2. Cyrus the Great, King of Persia --- II
3. Alcibades, Athenian statesman and general --- I
4. Sun Tzu, Chinese General --- IIII
5. Philip II, King of Macedon --- I
6. Alexander the Great, King of Macedon and Persia --- IIIII IIIII IIIII III
7. Ashoka the Great, Mauryan Indian Emperor --- I
8. Hannibal Barca, Carthaginian General --- IIIII II
9. Pompey the Great, Roman Senator
10. Julius Caesar, Roman Dictator --- IIIII IIIII III
11. Dou Xian, Han Chinese general
12. Ulpius Trajan, Roman Emperor --- I
13. Cao Cao, Han Chinese Chancellor and warlord --- I
14. Attila, King of the Huns
15. Flavius Aetius, Western Roman general --- I
16. Flavius Belisarius, Byzantine Roman general --- IIIII I
17. Heraclius Augustus, Byzantine Roman Emperor --- III
18. Khalid ibn al-Walid, General of the Rashidun Caliphate --- I
19. Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah, General of the Rashidun Caliphate --- I
20. Charles Martel, King of Francia --- I
21. Charlemagne, King of Francia --- I
22. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
23. John I Tzimisces, Byzantine Roman Emperor
24. Salah ad-Din, Ayyubid Egyptian Sultan --- I
25. Richard I, King of England
26. Genghis, Mongol Great Khan --- IIIII IIIII II
27. Baybars I, Mameluk Egyptian Sultan
28. Edward I, King of England
29. Timur-e Lang, Turko-Mongolian warlord --- III
30. Henry V, King of England --- I
31. Mehmet the Conqueror, Ottoman Sultan --- I
32. Hernan Cortez, Spanish Conquistador --- IIIII
33. Don Juan of Austria, Spanish Admiral --- I
34. Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan --- I
35. Akbar the Great, Mughal Indian Emperor --- II
36. Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden --- IIII
37. Zhu Yuanzhang, Ming Chinese Emperor
38. John III Sobieski, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
39. William III of Orange, King of England
40. John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough --- IIII
41. Francois-Eugene, Prince of Savoy --- I
42. Frederick the Great, King of Prussia --- IIIII I
43. Alexander Suvorov, Russian generalissimo --- III
44. George Washington, American President --- I
45. Daniel Morgan, American general
46. Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary/British general --- I
47. Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor --- IIIII IIIII III
48. Michel Ney, Imperial French general --- I
49. Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general --- I
50. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British Prime Minister --- III
EDIT: Last updated GMT11.55AM, December 13th 2009.