Worst Generals in History

67th Tigers

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Seconded. McClellan had a huge manpower advantage, particularly the Penninsula Campaign. He could have made Lee his bitch if he had wanted to.

When did he have a huge manpower advantage over Lee? There was rough parity before Jackson arrived and then Lee had a significant numerical advantage.
 
I was thinking more of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Napoleon III

Ah. Well, the field commanders were put in the disastrous positions they found themselves in at Drumossie and at Sedan (poor MacMahon) by the meddling of the previous days on the part of the royal C-in-Cs (Nairn; the flanking attempts of the Armee de Chalons), so....
 
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