Who would you march with?

[percy13]

Marshal Graziani, his entire force surrendered to a British force about 1/10 the size after very few shots were fired. My survivability would be very high indeed!

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Leonadius, Alexander, Constantine.

[Musashi]

Pericles, without question.
Julian the Apostate, most likely. Just in the hopes that I could keep him from taking that fatal spear hit during his campaign against the Sassanids, and keep him alive long enough to really let his suppression of christianity take root.

[Fisherking]

1. George Rogers Clark
2. Sir William Johnson
3. Hennery Morgan
4. Hugh O'Neal /Red Hugh O'Donnell
5. Nathan Bedford Forrest
6. Omar Bradley
7. Francis Marion
8. John Singleton Mosby
9. Xenophon
10. Robert the Bruce

This has little to do with what they fought for and more about what they were able to achieve….at least in some part of their careers

All causes and heroic notions are a waist. Soldiers fight for the man next to them. You want a commander willing to suffer the same fate as you and keep distractions to a minimum while trying to get through the mess you find your self in.

[Musashi]

All causes and heroic notions are a waist. Soldiers fight for the man next to them. You want a commander willing to suffer the same fate as you and keep distractions to a minimum while trying to get through the mess you find your self in.

If there's no good cause to march, why not just stay home?

[Innocentius]

If there's no good cause to march, why not just stay home?

Since most times, the King's men/the secret police would come knocking on your door. Then you'd be lucky if you got to march

[Musashi]

Yes, but the question is who would you choose to march with.

[Derfasciti]

Hmmm nice question.

I suppose I'd march with Napoleon Bonaparte. This was a man that could really inspire his troops and I suppose I'd be under his spell too.

[Warluster]

I'd march with myself~make that Napoleon.

[PanzerJaeger]

Guderian, Raus, Rommel(In Africa), Dietrich, and Kesselring are all on the list, but Manstein would be my first choice.

[Don Corleone]

Grant. Preferably, in Sedgewick's corps.

[Cangrande]

Ottavia Piccolomini? Maybe Prince Eugene wasn't the only one with gender issues :D

I'd like to meet:

Hywel Dda
Llewellyn the Last
Harold Godwinson
King John (the truly great English king)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Saladin
Lorenzo de Medici
Cromwell
Banastre Tarleton
Marlborough and his crossdressing sidekick Eugene

[Cangrande]

Marshal Graziani, his entire force surrendered to a British force about 1/10 the size after very few shots were fired. My survivability would be very high indeed!

Which time? In '43 or '45?

[Pannonian]

Originally Posted by pleasy
Marshal Graziani, his entire force surrendered to a British force about 1/10 the size after very few shots were fired. My survivability would be very high indeed!

Which time? In '43 or '45?

1940.

Operation Compass

[Cangrande]

Graziani didn't surrender in 1940, although many of his troops were forced to. He was fortunate to escape and resigned his commission in '41 in disgrace after his defeat. He saw no further action until '43 when he stayed loyal to Mussolini and the RSI. He surrendered to the Americans in '45 to avoid summary execution by the Partisans.

[Pannonian]

Graziani didn't surrender in 1940, although many of his troops were forced to. He was fortunate to escape and resigned his commission in '41 in disgrace after his defeat. He saw no further action until '43 when he stayed loyal to Mussolini and the RSI. He surrendered to the Americans in '45 to avoid summary execution by the Partisans.

The original post said that his force surrendered. With the army in enemy hands, what happens to its general is of little consequence.

Wellington during his Indian campaigns would have been an interesting leader.

[Justiciar]

That's an interesting list, Cangrande. Some are a wee bit baffling, but any Medici's a good Medici. Well.. almost.

Harold Godwinson

Pompous, self-important, scheming, power-hungry, and the spit of his father to boot. That said, he certainly had his good points, and no body can deny that England's had worse men in the king department. Honestly wouldn't have marched with him though. Walking from London to York in 5 days only to have your head lopped off by some hairy bloke with an axe? Bugger that!

King John (the truly great English king)

Unless that was subtle sarcasm, that just confuses the arse off me. He might not have been as bad as some romanticists would paint him, but he was bloody brimming with flaws, and was such a bastard to everything with a pulse that I wouldn't touch him with a barge-pole.

Who you'd like to meet though? Good question, and probably warrants an entirely seperate thread!

[Cangrande]

There was just a hint of irony in my selcting John :D

Militarily, yeah he was a bit of a disaster but his domestic reforms helped pave the way for the successes of his descendants.

[Cangrande]

The original post said that his force surrendered. With the army in enemy hands, what happens to its general is of little consequence.

Really? In that case shouldn't it have been 'I'd march with all the blokes who surrendered...', rather than Graziani who didn't and went on to lead his men to death and destruction? :D

[De' Medici]

1. Vicomte de Turenne
2. Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Conde

[Orb]

Pericles, without question.
Julian the Apostate, most likely. Just in the hopes that I could keep him from taking that fatal spear hit during his campaign against the Sassanids, and keep him alive long enough to really let his suppression of christianity take root.

I think Julian's problems weren't that he wasn't able to live long enough, but that people didn't really want a resurgence of paganism. They weren't fervent for it.