Statistics for Famous Generals of History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Conqueror of Persia, died early	Alexander the Great	92%
French general/emperor who revolutionized warfare	Napoleon Bonaparte	87%
African great fond of war elephants	Hannibal	85%
Creator of the vast Mongol empire	Genghis Khan	84%
"Desert Fox" who led the Afrika Korps	Erwin Rommel	81%
Overall US leader in Europe, commanded D-Day	Dwight D. Eisenhower	79%
Surrounded Alesia, had campaigns in Gaul	Julius Caesar	78%
The Maid of Orleans, burnt at the stake	Joan of Arc	77%
British general and duke, defeated France at Waterloo	Duke of Wellington	74%
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia	Robert E. Lee	71%
"Old Blood and Guts" of the Americans in Sicily and France	George Patton	70%
Leader of the Free French, later president	Charles De Gaulle	69%
American admiral who, in 1944, returned to the Philippines	Douglas MacArthur	69%
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army	George Washington	69%
Defeated the Aztec Empire around 1521	Hernan Cortes	69%
Liberated many South American nations from Spain	Simon Bolivar	68%
Launched the bloody Overland Campaign, took Vicksburg	Ulysees S. Grant	68%
Commander of the British 8th Army in N. Africa	Bernard Montgomery	64%
His invasion of Greece ended at Salamis	Xerxes I	64%
Raided the Roman Empire from Central Asia	Attila the Hun	63%
Nemesis of the Crusaders, Sultan of Egypt	Saladin	63%
Russian general who captured Berlin in 1945	Giorgi Zhukov	62%
Famous Briton who lived with rebel Arabs in the Hejaz	T.E. Lawrence	62%
Egyptian pharaoh, victor at Kadesh	Ramesses II	60%
Betrayed the American cause	Benedict Arnold	59%
Brave English king/crusader	Richard the Lionheart	59%
Seized Atlanta, made the March to the Sea in Georgia	William T. Sherman	58%
"Old Ironsides" of the English Civil War	Oliver Cromwell	57%
Defeated the above at Zama	Scipio Africanus	54%
Founder of the Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great	53%
Transformed Prussia into a major nation-state	Frederick II	53%
Japanese mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack	Isoroku Yamamoto	52%
Defeated the French at Agincourt	Henry V	51%
Stood firm at First Bull Run, later lost his arm and died	"Stonewall" Jackson	50%
Leader of the Red Shirts during Italy's unification	Giuseppe Garibaldi	43%
"Black Jack" who was the US commander in France	John Pershing	36%
Swedish king of the Thirty Year's War	Gustavus Adolphus	30%
Captured Mexico City with the Veracruz Campaign	Winfield Scott	15%
Samurai who united all of Japan	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	13%
American commander who took Iraq "by storm" in 1991	Norman Schwartzkopf	12%