History's Great Generals

Match the historical general to their achievements, none are less than a hundred years ago. Countries of origin use the name it had at the time, not the name it has now.

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Hint	Country of Origin	Answer
He was called the Lion of the North until he got lost in a fog	Sweden	Gustav Adolf II Vasa
Genghis Khan's field commander	Mongolia	Subotai
Carthaginian commander in the First Punic War	Carthage	Hamilcar Barca
General who bested his^ son	Rome	Scipio Africanus
He revolutionized the use of artillery when fighting in Egypt and Germany	France and Corsica	Napoleon Bonaparte
"Old Ironsides" whose motto was Lord of Hosts	England	Oliver Cromwell
Avenger of Teutoburg	Rome	Germanicus Julius Caesar
He broke the power of the Turks forever	France	Eugene of Savoy
Creator of the Hetaroi	Macedon	Phillip of Macedon
Legionary reformer, although his great-great-grandson arguably did more	Rome	Gaius Marius
He sunk the largest fleet that had been assembled up to that time and invented the wheelbarrow	China	Zhuge Liang
Inadverently created legionary tactics more than a thousand years after Rome's fall and taught them using buffalo metaphors	Nguni tribe	Shaka Zulu

Hint	Country of Origin	Answer
Beginner of the end of Rome's fall	Turkey	Alp Arslan
Broke the Huscarls with a well-timed charge and went from Duke to King	Normandy	William the Conqueror
Recaptured the western Roman Empire but could not hold it	East Rome	Belisarius
He received his title from his enemies for his great honor and won a battle posthumously	Castille	Rodrigo de Vivar aka El Cid Campeador
Rebuilder of empires, the first to employ knights, and the grandson of Europe's savior	Aachen	Charlemagne
The first non-Italian to become Emperor of Rome	Hispanic Rome	Vespasian
Daring commander of the Cavalier cavalry	Bohemia	Rupert of the Rhine
Despite being crippled as a boy he came closer than anyone to restoring his ancestor's empire and his descendents forged a mighty empire themselves	Samarkand	Timur the Lame
The Sword of God who was instrumental in Islam's rise	Arabia	Khalid bin Walid
South American revolutionary who freed much of the continent	Spanish South America	Simon Bolivar
Last of the great Condottieri	Bavaria	Count Tilly
Introduced breech-loading rifles and forged Germany	Prussia	Helmuth von Moltke

Level 33

May 12, 2013

Congrats on doing such a well researched quiz. I think it was just a little too difficult though. Some of the clues are a little cryptic and even I haven't heard of some of these people. Perhaps an extra clue giving their country of origin?!

Level 27

May 13, 2013

Country of origin added, although I didn't think any of them were especially obscure.

Level 82

May 14, 2013

I agree the quiz is a bit tough, perhaps you could be a little more forgiving on the write-ins. For example I tried many variations of Philip but didn't get the right answer because I left off "of Macedon" (seems redundant when you say he's from Macedonia in the clue), and I almost missed Africanus until I went back and typed in his first name, too.

Cao Cao, Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Rommell, Washington, Patton, Lee, El Cid, etc... not good enough to make the cut?

Level 82

May 14, 2013

and Horatio Nelson? Does he get the shaft because he was technically an admiral not a general?

Level 27

May 14, 2013

I did include El Cid; Alexander, Joan, Rommel, Lee, and Washington are too well-known to make for a good quiz; I already have Zhuge Liang so I didn't want to have any more Three Kingdoms generals; and yes, Nelson is an admiral and therefore doesn't count.

Level 27

May 14, 2013

However, you are right that some of the clues could be more lenient; I'll see what I can do.

Level 82

May 14, 2013

okay, so you were intentionally going for obscurity even though you said earlier that you didn't think they were especially obscure. But then if that's the case why'd you include Napoleon?

These guys voted Grant and Zhukov into the final 4. Zhukov isn't very well known outside of Russia and WW2 enthusiast circles.

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/100Greatest.php

Though they also included Nelson in their brackets.

Fine quiz regardless. Cheers.

Level 27

May 14, 2013

I included some easy ones like Napoleon and William the Conqueror, some moderate ones like Gustavus Adolphus or Hamilcar, some obscure ones like Marius and Rupert of the Rhine, and some well-known but difficult to get just on the question like Shaka Zulu. I could add more easy ones, but then I'd have to think of more obscure ones to balance it out. Also, Zhukov was less than a hundred years ago; although I did consider Kutzukov.

Level 56

Feb 8, 2017

Napoleon and Moltke did not work. For a timed quiz be a little less picky.

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