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For All The Marbles
A top-notch TL written by William Dellinger. For All The Marbles answers this question: what would happen if the greatest minds of human history were assembled as a team to work together to unite a country and win a war? All the greatest generals, tacticians, kings, queens, judges, scientists, philosophers, theologians, guerrillas, and inventors have been brought together by Marvin the Alien Space Bat to fight a war in the country of Calainia!
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The List
Commanding General of the Calainian Armed Forces – General Dwight Eisenhower
Commanding General of the Army – Lieutenant General John Monash
Deputy Commander of the Army – Major General Joshua Chamberlain
First Division – Major General Gaius Julius Caesar
1st Brigade – Brigadier General Sun Tzu
First Infantry – Colonel Scipio Africanus
Second Infantry – Colonel Pyrrhus Epirus
First Cavalry – Colonel James Wilson
2nd Brigade –Brigadier General Karl von Clausewitz
Third Infantry – Colonel Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Fourth Infantry – Colonel John Churchill
Second Cavalry – Colonel Georgy Zhukov
Second Division – Major General Alexander Macedon
3rd Brigade – Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur
Fifth Infantry –Colonel Omar Bradley
Sixth Infantry – Colonel Xenophon of Greece
Third Cavalry – Colonel Genghis Khan
4th Brigade – Brigadier General George H. Thomas
Seventh Infantry – Colonel George Marshall
Eighth Infantry – Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Fourth Cavalry – Colonel Subutai
Third Division – Major General Robert E. Lee
5th Brigade– Brigadier General Thomas Jackson
Ninth Infantry – Colonel Jose de San Martin
Tenth Infantry – Colonel Attila the Hun
Fifth Cavalry – Colonel J.E.B. Stuart
6th Brigade – Brigadier General James Longstreet
Eleventh Infantry – Colonel Shaka Zulu
Twelfth Infantry – Colonel Alexander Suvorov
Sixth Cavalry – Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest
Fourth Division – Major General Hannibal Barca
7th Brigade– Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant
Thirteenth Infantry – Colonel Oliver Cromwell
Fourteenth Infantry – Colonel Fabius Maximus
Seventh Cavalry – Colonel Gebhard von Blucher
8th Brigade – Brigadier General Gustav Adolph
Fifteenth Infantry – Colonel Henry of Wales
Sixteenth Infantry – Colonel Erich von Manstein
Eighth Cavalry – Colonel Saladin ibn Ayyūbi
Fifth Division – Major General Napoleon Bonaparte
9th Brigade– Brigadier General Flavius Belisarius
Seventeenth Infantry – Colonel Colin Powell
Eighteenth Infantry – Colonel Arthur Currie
Ninth Cavalry – Colonel George Patton
10th Brigade – Brigadier General John Pershing
Nineteenth Infantry – Colonel Walter Model
Twentieth Infantry – Colonel John Lejeune
Tenth Cavalry – Colonel Erwin Rommel
Sixth Division – Major General Arthur Wellesley
11th Brigade– Brigadier General Winfield Scott
Twenty-First Infantry – Colonel George Washington
Twenty-Second Infantry – Colonel Benedict Arnold
Eleventh Cavalry – Colonel Charles Martel
12th Brigade – Brigadier General Khalid ibn al-Walid
Twenty-Third Infantry – Colonel Garnet Wolseley
Twenty-Fourth Infantry – Colonel Edward Woodstock
Twelfth Cavalry – Colonel Creighton Abrams
Fleet Admiral of the Calainian Navy – Admiral Horatio Nelson
Deputy Commander – Vice Admiral Chester Nimitz
Commandant of the Marine Corps – Brigadier General Lewis “Chesty” Puller
H.M.S. Mirror – Captain Michiel de Ruyter
H.M.S. Constitution – Captain Stephen Decatur
H.M.S. Gambler – Captain Isoroku Yamamoto
H.M.S. Dragon – Captain Francis Drake
H.M.S. Enterprise –Captain William Halsey
H.M.S. Fidelis – Captain Yi Sun-sin
Commanding General of the Air Force– Major General William Mitchell
Deputy Commander – Brigadier General Keith Rodney Park
Tactical Air Command (Fighters and Air Support) – Colonel Manfred von Richthofen
Strategic Air Command (Bombers and Missiles) – Colonel Curtis Le May
Mobility Air Command – Colonel Henry Arnold
Northern Air Forces – Colonel William Bishop
Southern Air Forces – Colonel James Doolittle
Commander of Special Operations – Brigadier General Nathanael Greene
Commander of 1st Special Operations Regiment (Reconnaissance) – Colonel Daniel Morgan
Commander of 2nd Special Operations Regiment (Airborne) – Colonel John Mosby
Commander of 3rd Special Operations Regiment (Amphibious) – Colonel Francis Marion
Commander of 4th Special Operations Regiment (Urban Warfare) – Colonel Leonidas of Sparta
Commander of 5th Special Operations Regiment (Counterespionage) – Colonel David Stirling
Government of the Kingdom of Calainia (22)
King – Charles Martel
Queen – Elizabeth Tudor
Prime Minister – Thomas Jefferson
Deputy Prime Minister – Winston Churchill
Chief of Staff – Niccolò Machiavelli
Minister of Foreign Affairs – Otto von Bismarck
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs – Theodore Roosevelt
Minister of Domestic Affairs – Franklin Roosevelt
Deputy Minister of Domestic Affairs – Henry Clay
Minister of the Treasury – Adam Smith
Deputy Minister of the Treasury – Alexander Hamilton
Minister of War – George McClellan
Deputy Minister of War – John C. Calhoun
Minister of Industry – Albert Speer
Minister of Labor – Henry Ford
Minister of Agriculture – John Deere
Attorney General – Robert Kennedy
Minister of Intelligence – Francis Walsingham
Deputy Minister of Intelligence (Domestic) – Armand Jean du Plessis
Deputy Minister of Intelligence (Foreign) – William Donovan
President of the Imperial Senate – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Speaker of the House of Commons – Huey Long
Minister of Culture – Leonardo Da Vinci
Minister of Architecture – Vitruvius
Deputy Minister of Architecture – Jean d'Orbais
Deputy Minister of Architecture – Filippo Brunelleschi
Minister of the Arts– Michelangelo
Deputy Minister of the Arts – Vincent van Gogh
Minister of Music – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Deputy Minister of Music – Ludwig von Beethoven
Minister of Literature – William Shakespeare
Deputy Minister of Drama – Leo Tolstoy
Deputy Minister of Drama – Christopher Marlowe
Deputy Minister of Drama – Ernest Hemingway
Deputy Minister of Poetry – Dante Alighieri
Deputy Minister of Poetry – John Milton
Minister of Philosophy – Socrates
Deputy Minister of Philosophy – Plato
Deputy Minister of Philosophy – Aristotle
Ministry of Technology
Minister of Research and Development – Thomas Edison
Deputy Minister of Research and Development – J. Robert Oppenheimer
Co-Minister of Armament – Samuel Colt
Co-Minister of Armament – John Browning
Minister of Astronautics – Robert Goddard
Minister of Astronomy – Galileo Galillee
Minister of Astrophysics – Stephen Hawking
Minister of Aviation – Wilbur Wright
Minister of Biology – Charles Darwin
Minister of Chemistry – Francis Bacon
Deputy Minister of Chemistry – Antoine Lavoisier
Deputy Minister of Chemistry - Jābir ibn Hayyān
Minister of Communication – Alexander Graham Bell
Minister of Computers – Alan Turing
Deputy Minister of Computers – Ada Lovelace
Minister of Electromagnetics – Nikola Tesla
Minister of Engineering – Archimedes
Minister of Medicine – Jonas Salk
Minister of Physics – Isaac Newton
Deputy Minister of Physics – Lise Meitner
Minister of Quantum Theory – Niels Bohr
Minister of Radioactive Studies – Marie Curie
Minister of Rocketry – Werner von Braun
Minister of Theoretical Mathematics – Albert Einstein
High Court of the Empire of Terra
Chief Justice of the High Court – Benjamin Franklin
Associate Justice of the High Court – John Jay
Associate Justice of the High Court – John Marshall
Associate Justice of the High Court – Daniel Webster
Associate Justice of the High Court – Abraham Lincoln
Associate Justice of the High Court – William Blackstone
Associate Justice of the High Court – Edward Coke
Associate Justice of the High Court – Robert Jackson
Associate Justice of the High Court – Draco
Imperial Catholic Church
Bishop of Rome - Pope Gregorius
Secretariat of State - Cardinal Thomas Beckett
Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - Cardinal Thomas More
Father-General of the Society of Jesus - Ignatius of Loyola
Cardinal - Augustine of Hippo
Cardinal - Thomas Aquinas
Cardinal - John Calvin
Cardinal - Martin Luther
Cardinal – Martin Luther King, Jr.(Public Affairs)
Cardinal - John Wesley
Cardinal – Photios I of Constantinople
Cardinal –John Paul II