Sentence examples for brilliant general from inspiring English sources

"An astute and generous ruler, a brilliant general, and one of the most imaginative and energetic builders of the ancient world, Herod guided his kingdom to new prosperity and power.

The handsome, dashing Hoche proved to be a brilliant general.

The brilliant general became the miserable President, fuelling the descent from glory into the Gilded Age.

But, with the death of his brilliant general Gaston de Foix in that battle, the French suffered an irreparable loss.

At Snape, Derek was blessed with a brilliant general foreman, Bill Muttit, whose advice he readily accepted.

Maybe Belichick would be a winning, and thus "brilliant" general, but he ruined it for the Patriots.

As in previous conflicts with Italian peoples, Tarentum summoned military aid from mainland Greece, calling upon King Pyrrhus of Epirus, one of the most brilliant generals of the ancient world.

Despite contempt for his father's rule, Frederick the Great became one of history's most brilliant generals, molding Prussia through three wars into Europe's dominant power.

It does not appear that either was the equal of Hannibal, the brilliant Carthaginian general who administered defeat after defeat to superior Roman armies on their home turf.

'Actually Genghis was a philosopher and brilliant military general who got a lot of bad press,' says Fairouz Nishanova, a director of the Aga Khan Trust For Culture, which has organised this trip.

Is this (by all accounts) brilliant former general really a dream candidate for the parched and leaderless Democrats, or just a dream?