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From the iSteve Internet web site this item of interest:

"Who Was the Best Military General Ever?"

"A baseball stats [statistics] fan tries to rank history’s best generals:  Napoleon was the Best General Ever, and the Math Proves it. Ranking Every * General in the History of Warfare * Almost every"

This specific link gives you all the details of the methodology used and the conclusion. Verrrry interesting.

A MEANS AND METHOD STATISTICAL IN NATURE MORE THAN A FEW WILL FIND TO BE SPECIOUS? I MUST SAY PERSONALLY I AM RATHER IMPRESSED! AS TO THE CONCLUSION AND HOW IT WAS REACHED, THAT IS SOMETHING YOU MUST DETERMINE FOR YOURSELF.

Other experts will compile other lists of BEST military general ever. Talk to ten different experts and you will get ten different responses [with some degree of commonality I might assume].

Devoted readers to the blog can assemble their own list? Let me hear from you. AND THANK YOU STEVE!

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