Ask Peter Garrett

May 25, 2016
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Ask Peter Garrett

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Who were the three best generals of all time?

pittsburghcoug

5/25/16 4:06pm

Moroni

BYU Homer

5/25/16 4:08pm

Wasn't he a Captain?

BYU-Ite

5/25/16 4:11pm

You're thinking of Captain Crunch

Flyingdolphin

5/25/16 4:35pm

Who's actually only a commander.

Metallicat

5/25/16 7:19pm

*Cap'n

Lieutenant America

5/26/16 1:48pm

Andrew Wiggins

DrKennethNoisewater

5/25/16 4:08pm

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DrKennethNoisewater

5/25/16 4:08pm

Mattis

Metallicat

5/25/16 4:09pm

How is this? He wasn't even the best general in his own campaign.

Supercoug

5/25/16 4:44pm

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Abe Froman

5/25/16 4:13pm

RE: Not General Tso - he was chicken.

thaws

5/25/16 4:17pm

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Abe Froman

5/25/16 4:18pm

It's the best in the city.

ElCapo

5/25/16 4:21pm

Washington, Lee, and Eisenhower.

tisdaplace

5/25/16 4:14pm

Ghengas Kahn, Julius Ceasar, Erwin Rommel,

boogers

5/25/16 4:18pm

As far as weapon mastery, you'd have to go with Grievous.

Dwight Schr-UTE

5/25/16 4:20pm

Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Genghis Khan

ElCapo

5/25/16 4:24pm

These are mine too

BlueBlitzkrieg

5/25/16 4:33pm

Hannibal was only a colonel. I felt he should have been promoted to general, as

Faceman

5/25/16 4:43pm

The General Lee of Hazard county

Nakedbootleg

5/25/16 4:24pm

Conference

d-coug

5/25/16 4:25pm

Alexander is a must on that list.

CMuehle

5/25/16 4:26pm

Red Klotz, Dizzy Grant and Clyde Sinclair

Faceman

5/25/16 4:28pm

This is too difficult of a question, but any list without Alexander doesn't make

macaroni

5/25/16 4:29pm

And Ghengis Khan

WDaddy

5/25/16 4:33pm

Basically reinvented warfare at that time.

Supercoug

5/25/16 4:49pm

Sun Tzu as well.

macaroni

5/25/16 6:15pm

General Mills, General Electric, General Motors

frontrowcougar

5/25/16 4:30pm

Or if you are a Ute, General Ed.

BlueBlitzkrieg

5/26/16 10:41am

Could you be little more specific, your question is too genera...ah, forget it.

socorny

5/25/16 4:34pm

Buster Keaton

SEABYU1

5/25/16 4:55pm

Patton, Stonewall Jackson, and Alexander the Great

TexanY

5/25/16 4:59pm

Ask Peter Garrett

panguitch

5/25/16 5:02pm

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Cooler4

5/25/16 5:14pm

Unfortunately we might want to add GeGenghis Khan???

HarlemCoug

5/25/16 5:14pm

RE: Unfortunately we might want to add GeGenghis Khan???

boogers

5/25/16 5:29pm

RE: Unfortunately we might want to add GeGenghis Khan???

85fan

5/25/16 11:10pm

there is an entire ethnic group in afghanistan who are his descendents.

macaroni

5/26/16 5:12am

Boromir. 😂

ByuImaginesDragons

5/25/16 9:52pm

IDK about including him in top 3, but top 10 I would include Heinz Guderian

IceCreamButt

5/26/16 4:03am

I can't believe no one included Napoleon, possibly the greatest

Supercoug

5/26/16 8:17am

Click on the link

Wingnut

5/26/16 8:20am

that was uncalled for.

Supercoug

5/26/16 8:21am

He only lost one battle?

CMuehle

5/26/16 8:57am

I count the Battle of Nations as his primary defeat.

Supercoug

5/26/16 9:21am

You think the Russian delay

panguitch

5/26/16 10:04am

I don't agree that Russia was a perfect campaign at all.

CMuehle

5/26/16 10:04am

Longstreet refused to timely act on a direct order from Lee @ Gettysburg.

Supercoug

5/26/16 10:06am

Oh, come on.

CMuehle

5/26/16 10:10am

Since there were about 6 hours between the time

Supercoug

5/26/16 10:33am

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Supercoug

5/26/16 8:21am

Alexander the Great, Scipio Africanus, Napoleon

DapperDan

5/26/16 10:09am

After the 2nd Punic war, Scipio

CMuehle

5/26/16 10:15am

Could not the same be same re Grant vs Lee?

Supercoug

5/26/16 10:24am

Absolutely.

CMuehle

5/26/16 10:27am

Historians don't think that conversation actually happened

DapperDan

5/26/16 10:34am

Probably true.

CMuehle

5/26/16 10:47am

Lee had a chance if he would have listened to Longstreet and dug in at

Bert609

5/26/16 11:23am

I'd be OK with Lee at the top spot in American history. His work in the Mexican

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