Sentence examples for greatest general from inspiring English sources

In taking on Afghanistan, he is risking his reputation as perhaps the greatest general of his generation on a war that many people think will end in a stalemate.

Unfortunately for our fledgling democracy, Porfirio D, Ju zz's greatest general, seized power in 1876.

In the ensuing war against Caesar and Cleopatra, which the world's greatest general nearly lost (until reinforcements arrived, he was severely short-handed), Ptolemy drowned.

Service, to country, to nation, to the army, formed Manstein's core and crust, as Mungo Melvin's authoritative and splendidly comprehensive biography, "Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General," attests.

This week: Napoleon by Stanley Kubrick The rise and fall of history's greatest general by history's greatest director (if you subscribe to Empire magazine).

More recently, the critics who have influenced me are Edmund Wilson, whether writing about literature, poetry or theatre – he's probably the greatest general reviewer of my lifetime.

Johnson responded that MacArthur was "one of the greatest, if not the greatest generals of our generation".

(This category would also include two of the North's greatest generals: Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman).

We know that the greatest surgeons believe in something beyond cutting, that the greatest generals believe in something beyond war.

OUR greatest generals and geniuses are never appreciated until they are gone, until history grants them their proper due.

Roberts said Wellington was an extraordinary figure who was one of the greatest generals in British history.