The Greatest "General" ever to walk on earth-Alexander The Greatest!
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Alexander set out to conquer much of the known world then. He nearly succeeded. He was perhaps the greatest general in history-admired, envied and studied by Hannibal, Caesar, Napoleon, George Patton and virtually every cadet in every military academy. His broad vision and questing mind put him head and shoulders above other conquerors.
Alexander was unusually short, probably little, if any, over 1.5 metres. He was said to be handsome-prominent forehead, straight nose, jutting jaw-and he was youngest of all conquerors:master of Asia Minor at 22, of mighty Persia at 25.
He was only 32 when he died in 323 BC, having conquered an empire stretching from today's Yugoslavia to India and including all or parts of Bulgaria, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the Soviet Union. More than two-and-a-half centuries later, Julius Caesar wept to read how much Alexander had accomplished by that age and chided himself on being a failure.
Alexander's father, King Philip, was such a military and political genius that history might have called him philip the Great had his son not so far outshone him. Philip honed the small but superb army his son would later lead, raised his Macedonian kingdom to its Zenith and brought nearly all of Greece's squabbling cities under his sway.
The tutors of the young prince were the best available. The great Aristotle taught him morals, philosophy, political science, botany, anatomy, history, literature, which would make Alexander the best-educated conqueror of many ages. Under his pillow at night Alexander kept, first a dagger against assassins and second a unique copy of Homer's lliad made for him with special notes by Aristotle himself.
In in 336 BC Philip was assassinated and nearly all his conquered people revolted. They had nothing to fear, they thought, from the callow new king, but Alexander struck north, east, west then south into Greece proper. Thebes was mercilessly flattened. The other Greek cities then opened theri gates to him with little or no loss of life.
Alexander now prepared for a Greek crusade into Asia, to punish the Persians for having invaded Greece some 150 years before. Persia was the richest empire, more powerful by far than any state in known world. Alexander had little more than 30, 000 infantry and 5, 000 cavalry. The persians had millions at their disposal. In the final battle Alexander's force seemed a tiny island about to be engulfed by a tidal wave. Then Alexander decided the victory by a classic manoeuvre learnt from his father. While his centre drew the main enemy attack upon itself, he led a wild but disciplined cavalry charge out around his right wing, then struck to catch the enemy's unguarded flank. The persian Army collapsed.
Alexander plundered persian wealth and burnt down the royal palace. Archeological evidence can still trace the remains of this palace. The charred debris had kept the wonderful stone carvings of the place intact. Alexander moved further east of persia in the thirst of exploration. He found many states which he brought under his rule. Finally when he reached Punjab in today's India he had walked 18, 100 kms in eight years.
Aristotle had tought Alexander that the world ended just beyond Hindu kush mountains. When he came to the Kush, he found vast empires stretched ahead. But tired and for bad weather he had to retreat from the Kush back to Greece. Before leaving he had his men build 12 enormous altars, each dedicated to one of the 12 major gods of Greece. Alexander's legacy still lives on in the form of Greek classics being played to nomad tribesman in Central Persia;The Greek legends would be carved in stone as far as India.
Alexander made further plans of conquest when he reached home but in the spring of 323 BC he fell ill with malaria and liver complications. The end was near. As the King layed dying soldiers were allowed to pay him their last tributes. When asked "who would be his successor? "The king replied-"The Best". But even the best could not perpetuate the fabulous empire of the greatest!
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the greatest general in history is khalid ibn al-walid arab muslim general in the early muslim empire conquets he defeated the persian and the byzantine(roman) empires at the same time compared to alexander khalid is a little bit better than alexander who comes number 2 in history this comaparison was based on calacualting a statistical model that estimated how many soldiers can each empire recruit and each battle ratio between the openent army sizes and number of soldiers killed from both sides the enemy and the studied army general plus other variables that were taken. check khalid ibn al-walid wikipedia website
lebanese hizbollah general imad mughniah is the greatest general in history, he defeated isreal in 2006 proved, while alexander is not proved( way bach in history). hizbolluh fighters 4000 defeted 30,000 israeli soldiers multiplied by 6.67 technology difference to the side of israel, which means 200,000 soldiers, so 4000 hizbolluh fighters defeated 200,000 israeli soldiers. 1:50 battle ratio. israel tried to invade lebanon to destroy hizbulloh but hizbolluh managed in previnting israel from penetrating lebanon and succseede in defeating it. the isreali losses in tanks and airplanes and helicopters and soldiers were about more than 12:1 compared to hizbulluh losses. that makes imad mughniah the greatest general in history, so in my opinion there are 3 top generals who are the same equal to each other, khalid ibn al-walid, alexander the great and imad mughniah. but the only one proved among them is imad mughniah while the other two generals are not proved because they were fighting in the medeivel and ancient history, while general imad mughniah won on isreal 2 victories in 2000 and 2006.never defeated but he was assasinated in 2008 by the mosad in syria away from the fighting front.
Khalid Bin Al-Waleed is by far the greatest general who ever lived as he remained undefeated throughout his life unlike Napolean or Attila.In all his engagements he was numerically inferior.His greatest achievement is "reconquest" of Arabia after Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) died.The Battle of Yamama(632 AD),Battle of Walaja (632AD)and Yarmouk(636 AD) are his masterpiece.Apart from his tactical brilliance that overshadowed that of Tamerlane and Frederick and Strategical brillanca that was far better than that of Hannibal and Napolean he was a FRONTLINE fighter,a soldier who never lost a single duel that NO OTHER GENERAL in history was able and would be able to achieve.
Alexander is a general who really has very little actual qualitys, what did he actually do. He conquered the persian empire (an empire which is famous for it's use of high quality infantry men, oh wait hang on, NO! persian infantry use predomenantly wicker shields and light clothing. They had stuped into an age of decadant traditional military attitudes "no one can defeat Persia because its Big, what could possibly go wrong"
Greece had defeated persia repeteadly, persian infantry proving too poorly drilled, armoured and skilled. Greek thrusts into Persia where impossible because of the "Polis" but after the unification of Greece under macedon Persia was just asking for it.
So, theres alexander standing on the edge of the propontis, what does he think he has which he can do to defeat Persia?
1.)a better army
2.)his own millitary skill
3.)a host of good oficers and commanders with him
but on a practical level, why did he succeed? It was the spears, they were longer and very, very well organised, they could easily kill the shorter speared, lighter armoured persians in big numbers.
the persians engage him at 3 key battles. split there forces into 3. making it easier for him again.
The inovation of the phalanx also helps him considerably, but that wasnt designed by him, the macedonian phalanx was designed by phillip the 2nd, the very same phillip the 2nd who unified greece in the first place!!!
IT WAS ALL PHILLIP THE 2ND!!!
(and the incompetence of Persia)
Issa, that system is far too conveluted, it has too many variables to be calculable.
Zhuge Liang, ancient Chinese general is the equivalent of Khalid bin Walid and some would say greater.
Any military historian possessing even a grain of integrity cannot but judge Khalid Ibn Walid as the greatest general who ever lived. Remaining undefeated in over 100 battles in his lifetime is a record Alexender, Saladin,Attila, Napoleon or the likes would love to have.....but they do not have.
His raw courage, his brilliant tactics and his victories over armies far greater in size and equipment are a living lesson for all to marvel.
hizbullah chief of operation during 2006 war with israel, a lebanase, 4000 fighters managed to draw with 40,000 israeli soldiers, killing 2300 israeli soldiers according to french report and destroying 200 israeli tanks according to hizbullah leadership speech, hizbulluh lost 250 fighters,losses were 1:20 to hizbulluh side after taking tanks+soldiers, technology ratio is 1:7.2 to isareli side plus 10:1 ratio for number of soldiers to israel side, which mean that 10x7.2x20/2= 720 points,this mean that hizbulluh military command was clever 720 times than israeli army command, and israeli army command is the world most advanced profecient command in the world, and conventionally they have the most advanced army in terms of technology more advaced than the U.S.A but have a smaller army compared with the U.S.A. hizbullah battle with israel has happened in 2006, which means it is proved while alexander is 2300 years ago which means it is difficult to prove.
dear zach taylor, thanks for providing information about general Zhuge Liang, could you please provide us with this information? what was the largest army size (number of soldiers) that general Zhuge Liang used in one battle? and what was the total number (sum) of all armies that he defeated? an example answer he had 100,000 soldiers at max in one battle and he defeated a total of 1.25 million soldiers in all his campains.
Of the ancient period, maybe, but you should divert a group of lists to the ancient, medival and modern generals of their respective periods.
Do you think Alexander the Great could out think Napoleon?
Dear Mohkum,
Your information regarding Alexender is awesome and your style of writting is very good i read ur whole article regarding alexender and i m impressed by your accurate figure like 30,000 infantry and 5000 cavalary and stuff like that.
In last your article was quite knowledgable and i gained alot knowledge about Alexender by reading it.
Imad Mughniyeh?
Ha
Before the 2006 war Hezbollah attacks were constant. Now there's been not a one for four years. Even assassination of Imad and others hasn't resulted in Hezzy reprisals.
As far as Israel is concerned that's pretty much total victory.
alexander is in my top 5 favirote generals but i do not think he is the greatest
greatest six generals in history on 100 points scale:
1:general khalid ibn al-walid: 100 points
2:genghis khan: 96 points
3: alexander: 94 points
4: ming general Yuán Chónghuàn: 87 points
5:general tariq ibn zeyad: 54 points
6: hizbulluh chief of operation at 2006 war with israel: 25-70 points
greatest eight generals in history on 100 points scale:
1:Ming general Yuán Chónghuàn: 100 points
2:general khalid ibn al-walid: 85 points.
2:Alexander the great: 85 points.
4:genghis khan: 79 points.
5:general tariq ibn zeyad: 17 points.
6:zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza: 16 points.
7: hizbulluh chief of operation at 2006 war with israel: 8-22 points.
8:Gaius Julius Caesar: 12 points
Note: khalid & Alexander could be number one because there is a probability that is not proved that the ming general Yuán Chónghuàn used an advanced technology portugese canon. which means that ming general rank is ranging between 1 and 4.
therefore the portugese canons should be tested to estimate the technology factor. the portugese canon technology could be not advanced at all and equal to or less than the other opposing armies canon technology.
greatest eight generals in history on 100 points scale:
1:Ming general Yuán Chónghuàn: 100 points
2:Alexander the great: 85 points.
3:genghis khan: 69 points.
4:general khalid ibn al-walid: 66 points
5:general tariq ibn zeyad: 17 points.
6:zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza: 16 points.
7: hizbulluh chief of operation at 2006 war with israel: 8-22 points.
8:Gaius Julius Caesar: 12 points
Note:Alexander could be number one because there is a probability that is not proved that the ming general Yuán Chónghuàn used an advanced technology portugese canon. which means that ming general rank is ranging between 1 and 4.
therefore the portugese canons should be tested to estimate the technology factor. the portugese canon technology could be not advanced at all and equal to or less than the other opposing armies canon technology.
greatest eight generals in history on 100 points scale:
1:general khalid ibn al-walid: 100 points
2:Ming general Yuán Chónghuàn: 87 points
3:genghis khan: 74 points.
4:Alexander the great: 40 points.
5:general tariq ibn zeyad: 17 points.
6:zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza: 16 points.
7: hizbulluh chief of operation at 2006 war with israel: 8-22 points.
8:Gaius Julius Caesar: 12 points
greatest eight generals in history on 100 points scale:
1:general khalid ibn al-walid: 100 points
2:Ming general Yuán Chónghuàn: 87 points
3:genghis khan: 63 points.
4:Alexander the great: 59 points.
5:general tariq ibn zeyad: 17 points.
6: hizbulluh chief of operation at 2006 war with israel: 9-25 points.
7:zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza: 16 points.
8:Gaius Julius Caesar: 12 points
greatest eight generals in history on 100 points scale:
1:general tariq ibn zeyad & general muosa ibn nusir: 100 points
2:general khalid ibn al-walid: 97 points
3:Ming general Yuán Chónghuàn: 63 points
4:genghis khan: 60 points.
5:Alexander the great: 54 points.
6: hizbulluh chief of operation at 2006 war with israel: 9-25 points.
7:zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza: 16 points.
8:Gaius Julius Caesar: 12 points
greatest eight generals in history on 100 points scale:
1:general tariq ibn zeyad & general muosa ibn nusir: 100 points
2:general khalid ibn al-walid: 97 points
3:Zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza (black race): 95 points.
4: Hizbulluh chief of operations at 2006 war with israel: 67 points.
5:genghis khan: 60 points.
6:Alexander the great: 55 points.
7:Ming general Yuán Chónghuàn: 31 points
8:Gaius Julius Caesar: 9 points
Alexander has a certain myth regarding him,he is an epitome of Western civilization might and ironically you can say the same about Khalid (r.a) he is one of the reasons we Asians..especially Muslims believe that yes we are superior so this debate Khalid vs Alexander has much to do with psychology rather than military facts...
1: Genghis khan: 100 points.
2: Alexander the great: 97 points
3: Gaius Julius ceaser: 50 points
4: Zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza (black south african): 49 points.
5: (Lebanon) Hizbulluh chief of operation in 2006 war with Israel: 43 points
6: general tariq ibn zeyad and general mousa ibn nusir: 37 points
7: general khalid ibn al-walid: 36 points
8: Israeli general aizer wiseman 1967 war commander: 34 points.
hizbulluh: 4000 fighters
israel: 40000 soldiers
technology ratio: hizbulluh 1:10 israel
training level:
hizbullh:1.5
israel: 1
battle ratio: israel 67:1 hizbulluh
losses:
hizbulluh: 250 fighters killed
israel: claimed 121 killed, french report based on israeli government officials information leaks: 2300 killed, probably 240 soldiers killed.
hizbulluh claimed destroying 200 israeli tanks. probably: 100 tanks destroyed.
total loss ratio taking tanks in consideration: israel: 6 : 1 hizbulluh, israel losses 6 times more than hizbulluh lossess.
battle result: draw, more to hizbulluh side.
hizbulluh commander during 2006 battle with israel is proved at 43 points because the battle happened in 2006 while information about alexander or tariq ibn-zeyad thousands of years old do not provide evidence for their points even 1967 war, WW2 information are not credible.
top generals on 100 points scale
1: Genghis khan: 100 points.
2: Gaius Julius ceaser: 50 points
3: Zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza (black south african): 49 points.
4: (Lebanon) Hizbulluh chief of operation in 2006 war with Israel: 43 points
5: general tariq ibn zeyad and general mousa ibn nusir: 37 points
6: general khalid ibn al-walid: 36 points
7: Israeli general aizer wiseman 1967 war commander: 34 points.
8: Alexander the great: 28 points
hizbulluh: 4000 fighters
israel: 40000 soldiers
technology ratio: hizbulluh 1:10 israel
training level:
hizbullh:1.5
israel: 1
battle ratio: israel 67:1 hizbulluh
losses:
hizbulluh: 250 fighters killed
israel: claimed 121 killed, french report based on israeli government officials information leaks: 2300 killed, probably 240 soldiers killed.
hizbulluh claimed destroying 200 israeli tanks. probably: 100 tanks destroyed.
total loss ratio taking tanks in consideration: israel: 6 : 1 hizbulluh, israel losses 6 times more than hizbulluh lossess.
battle result: draw, more to hizbulluh side.
hizbulluh commander during 2006 battle with israel is proved at 43 points because the battle happened in 2006 while information about alexander or tariq ibn-zeyad thousands of years old do not provide evidence for their points even 1967 war, WW2 information are not credible.
top generals on 100 points scale
1: Genghis khan: 100 points.
2: Zulu general Ntshingwayo kaMAhole Khoza (black south african): 82 points.
3: general tariq ibn zeyad & general mousa ibn nusir: 61 points
4: general khalid ibn al-walid: 59 points
5: Israeli general aizer wiseman 1967 war commander: 45 points.
6: alexander the great: 40 points.
7: (Lebanon) Hizbulluh chief of operation in 2006 war with Israel: 32 points
8: Gaius Julius ceaser: 22 points
khalid read his bio ,when fighting he called out the opposing armies best general, for a toe to toe
Alexander received a classical Greek education under the tutorship of famed philosopher Aristotle, succeeded his father Philip II of Macedon to the throne in 336 BC after the King was assassinated, and died thirteen years later at the age of 32. Although both Alexander's reign and empire were short-lived, the cultural impact of his conquests lasted for centuries. Alexander was known to be undefeated in battle and is considered one of the most successful commanders of all time.[1] He is one of the most famous figures of antiquity, and is remembered for his tactical ability, his conquests, and for spreading Greek culture into the East (marking the beginning of Hellenistic civilization).
Khalid Ibn Walid was sure a great general, but I would not put him on the same level as Caesar, Alexander or Hannibal.
Regarding Hezbollah chief, I would add that Viriathus who was a great leader of similar guerrilla forces of Lusitanian people in their war against Romans also had a great measure of success for some time destroying few roman armies but ultimately as there appeared a capable Roman general his and Lusitanian people fate was sealed. He was dead and Lusitanians ended as Roman subjects. Israel was unprepared in previous conflict and had a bad leadership going into that summer of 2006 on military and civil levels. Israeli war machine is far superior to anything Hezbollah has and with proper leadership it is pretty clear how Israeli army gonna handle next conflict in which I see Lebanon destroyed and Hezbollah pretty much annihilated.
It only takes proper leadership and preparedness.
When assessing the greatness of the certain military leader it is good to see whom he fought. When we discuss Hannibal, he fought Romans who were a formidable enemy, when we speak Caesar he fought so many different kinds of foes including the best Roman general of that age Pompey.
When Arabs burst out of Saudi Arabia Iran and Byzantium were pretty much exhausted by decades of constant warfare which provided that great opportunity for Arabs. Without this factor I believe Islam would not have been a world religion and Arab success might have been limited to Middle East and may be even less.
Ancient China had great generals. I think the west should learn more about the chinese
SUN TZU is the greatest strategist of all time in my opinion.
His theory on war is accurate. he fought many battles and from this experience, he wrote THE ART OF WAR.
Alexander is very heroic but I think ZhuGe Liang is a better general.
Alexander and Zhu's tactics and strategies are very different but I think Zhu's srategy is way better
top generals on 100 points scale
1: Genghis khan: 100 points.
2: general Khalid Ibn Al-Walid: 86 points.
3: Alexander the great: 84 points.
op generals on 100 points scale
1: general sabutai: 100 points.
1: general jebe: 100 points
3: general Khalid Ibn Al-Walid: 44 points.
4: general Yuan Chonghuan: 43 points
5: Alexander the great: 29 points.
top generals on 100 points scale
1: general sabutai: 100 points.
1: general jebe: 100 points
3: general Khalid Ibn Al-Walid: 44 points.
4: general Yuan Chonghuan: 43 points
5: Alexander the great: 29 points.
top generals on 100 points scale
1: general jebe: 100 points.
2: general sabutai: 40 points
3: general Khalid Ibn Al-Walid: 32 points.
4: general Yuan Chonghuan: 31 points
5: Alexander the great: 21 points.
6: Hizbulluh chief of operations 2006 war with israel: 17 points.
Khalid ibn al walid
156 points
Alexander:
81
Genghis
75
The Greatest General Ever was Genghis Khan, hands down. He rose from poverty as an orphan to build a team, from there he build a clan. He reorganize the clans into a military unit and conquered all the tribes of the steppe. He incorporated the tribes to make a nation. He did all within 25 years. Then he went on to conquer central Asia in 10 years. After his death, he sons and grandsons conquered most of Asia and half the Europe creating the greatest empire the world has ever seen. The peace they brought created Pax Mongolica and all knowledge and technology of the wealthy and civilized Asia flowed into squalid and poverty stricken Europe. The impetus turned Europe from the Dark Age to Medival time. His descendents then conquered India and created the fabulously rich Mogul Empire. He descendents in Central Asia ruled there until the 20th century. Try Top That!
The exhausted accuse doesent work as the Arabs just came out of the Ridda war the proportion of troops they had was small compared ot the Byzatines and Persians. LOL the Byzantines and Persians were even able to recoperate for 5 years before the Arabs attacked while the Arabs just unified Arabia will little or no resources and weapons and demolished two superpowers larger in size and resources without no tim to recoperate. Heck the Byzatine empire even lived another 1000 years after the Muslims invaded if the were "exhausted" how were they able to stop them because Khalid-Bin-Waleed was not in command your logic is fallowed. Even when they were "exhausted" both superpowers were still able to feild much larger armies then the Arabs and resources (horses, elephants).
The first battle when Khalid-Bin-Waleed wasent in command was aganist the Byzantine army of 20,000 aganist the Arabs army of 3000 and led the Arabs to retreat, wait if the Byzantines were "exhausted" how were they able to beat the Arabs on the first battle because Khalid-Bin-Waleed was not the general.
Cleanclover 4 years ago
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