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    I will leave it to you you my fellow orgahs to tell and suggest some famous generals of the etw timeline..but dont minchen the obvious,like napoeleon and george washington....for I am a mere ant when it comes to this time in history
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    Thaddeus Koskiusco(there are several versions of his name)
    Originally born in Poland, he came to America during the revolution to aid the Americans. He was very succesful at constructing fortifications. He was the designer of West Point.(the designs were sold to the Brits by Benedict Arnold who was actually a fairly competent general at the time.) After the war, Thaddeus returned to Poland to unsuccesfully try to free his country from the control of the Prussians, Russians, Austrians, the local YMCA, etc....
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    Britain

    bonnie prince charlie
    Wellington.
    Cornwallace,
    uxbridge
    wolfe
    duke of cumberland

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    Bonnie "Prince" Charlie, was nothing but a damned Frenchman through and through. He had not an ounce of Scot in him. He was not British, niether was he a general.
    Cornwallis I suppose was famous, but only for his failures.
    Sir John Moore and Churchill are two good ones.
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    For Prussia:

    Old Fritz, Seydlitz, Ziethen, Winterfeld, Old Dessauer, Ferdinand of Brunschwick to name just a few

    For Austria:

    Daun, Hadik, me, Charles of Lorraine, Lacy...

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    The austrian Daun was a great general - in my opinion the only one who could be comparable with Frederik(Friedrich) the Great of Prussia during the 7 years war.
    Well perhaps the russian Saltikov could be mentioned also.

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    Default Re: Famous Generals

    For Imperial Russia:

    Peter the Great Era:
    General Sheremetyev
    General Gordon- some crazy Scot who served under Peter the Great and his father Alexius, real interesting person
    Prince Alexander Menshikov


    Late Catherine-Napoleonic times
    Alexander Suvorov
    Mikhail Kutuzov
    Barclay DeTolly
    Georgii Bagration


    As for Austria, do not forget Mach.

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    Napoleon!!
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    Eugene of Savoy for Austria

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    Wellington and Napoleon are included, I read it somewhere.




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    How can you possibly have missed the Duke of Marlborough?!

    I'm not too familiar with military leaders of this time other than the Swedish ones (Stenbock, Lewenhaupt, Rehnskjöld etc). The only one I can think of right now is Villars (France).
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    Blücher !!!!
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