ssarah
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My money is still on Hannibal and Alexander as being the best generals. They both fought and won battles against huge odds. And invented amazing tactics. You know that saying: "how much a smartphone costs? A few billion for the first one in research, and few hundred for all the others." The only thing that I heard Napoleon invented was that defeat in detail thing. I invented that on my own when playing starcraft as a kid :/ I think napoleon truly took advantage of the idea of the republic where each man owned himself and had to serve for citizenship. But I'm no expert, so yeh: some math seems to be missing.