Alhocol Leading/Effecting Anything Ever ?

[matteus the inbred]

Attila the Hun died of alcohol poisoning (or choked on his own vomit, which was down to alcohol).

oh yeah, that's a good one! i've also heard one version where he got so drunk he didn't notice he had a nosebleed and drowned in his own blood...

[Ironside]

From the top of my head.

The death of Johan Banér was caused by shrunken liver (called that?) due to excessive drinking.

And for you who doesn't know who he was, he was the main commander over the Swedish forces in the 30-years war from 1636-1641.
Replaced with Lennart Torstensson, both great commanders but in different ways and had they been in the wrong order things could have gone quite different.

The imperial commander Mathias Gallas was also a drunkard, but in his case was his army probably better off when he was drunk.

I don't think any of these 2 commanders drinking habits had any direct effect on their commanding abillities though.

[Reenk Roink]

Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon died an exhausted alcoholic...

[Craterus]

oh yeah, that's a good one! i've also heard one version where he got so drunk he didn't notice he had a nosebleed and drowned in his own blood...

I believe you're right, my friend.

[Oaty]

Oh um George W Bush

[LeftEyeNine]

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[Bohdan, Lord of Courland]

The Polish field-hetman Mikolaj Potocki (the elder) made a fatal decision while under the (very) heavy influence of alcohol during the Cossack Rebellion of 1648, leading an entire army to its destruction.
Apparantly, the idea of leaving favourable ground (the camp was entrenched and fortified) and retreating in the middle of the night into a swamp was appealing to him