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    Guys, may I point out that we are debating Generals, and that Achilles was more of a Warrior? By which I mean that in his days, combat was more a simple clash of massed soldiers fighting hand-to-hand. If we are to credit legend, of course...

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    Quote Originally Posted by LaoOmologo View Post
    Achilles ~ Alexander ~ Caesar ~ Charlemagne (not very famous) ~ William Wallace ~ Henry V ~ Napoleon.
    I liked how i knew about all those people

    though we could throw in Scipio, Hannibal, King Arthur, Khan, Saladin, Darius I, Xerxes I, Agammendon (excuse spelling on his dude), Patton, and so on...

    From what i knew of Alexander the Great. He was a great miltary leader and knew that true strength lay in experience over sheer numbers. his one flaw was that he continued in one direction his entire life, going towards the pacific. making macedonia less and less the center of his empire. If a capital is centrally located, choas will better be put down and law would reign supreme, rather than having the capital hundreds of miles from the new territories
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost101 View Post
    I liked how i knew about all those people

    though we could throw in Scipio, Hannibal, King Arthur, Khan, Saladin, Darius I, Xerxes I, Agammendon (excuse spelling on his dude), Patton, and so on...

    From what i knew of Alexander the Great. He was a great miltary leader and knew that true strength lay in experience over sheer numbers. his one flaw was that he continued in one direction his entire life, going towards the pacific. making macedonia less and less the center of his empire. If a capital is centrally located, choas will better be put down and law would reign supreme, rather than having the capital hundreds of miles from the new territories
    Yes, we can put in those guys too, but I had to poop when I wrote it XD XD

    Yes, that is also true. His land ended up being nothing but a huge Greek corridor.
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    ahh, crapping makes a person incapable of being constipated, i know the feeling, o heck i bet even the terminator thalin knows the feeling as well
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost101 View Post
    ahh, crapping makes a person incapable of being constipated, i know the feeling, o heck i bet even the terminator thalin knows the feeling as well
    Yes, I am glad you understand
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    Default [On Capitals and Centers of Gravity]

    Hello.

    Yes Ghost101, it is very important to maintain a capital or a main center of gravity at the very core of a vast domain/realm. This argument was maintained by the Greek and Roman classicist and Oriental* historian George Rawlinson regarding the shifting of capitals during the sovereignty of Seleucus I 'Nicator' of the Hellenistic Diadochian Kingdom of the Seleucids. The original capital of Babylon was initially shifted to the city of Seleucia until it was permanently established in Antioch. George Rawlinson argued that if Babylon remained the capital of the Seleucid Empire than rebellious satraps such as Andragoras and Diodotus I of Bactria would not have successfully established autonomous or politically independent and sovereign states during the reign of weak, decrepit, imperious and effeminate rulers, dynasts and princes such as Antiochus II 'Theos'.

    Seleucus I 'Nicator' shifted his capital base to alleviate temporary problems: his competition with the other Epigonoi or post-Alexandrian princes and sovereigns, and in his campaign against Lysimachus that culminated in his victory over Lysimachus at the battle of Corupedium or Corupedion in 281 B.C.E in the plains of Anatolia. However, by shifting his capital to one extremity the most eastern satrapies at Bactria, Ferghana, Sogdiana, Arachosia, Tapuria, Traxiane, Gandhara, etc were swept away in the tide of barbarian incursions and fragmented through the usurpations of satraps and other Seleucid officials.

    *Note: [The term "oriental" indicates the great monarchies of the Near East: the Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans or Neo-Babylonians, the Medes, the Medio-Achaemenids of Persia, the Arsacids of Parthia and the Sassanian or Neo-Persians.]





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    Lol catchy title (:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost101 View Post
    I liked how i knew about all those people

    though we could throw in Scipio, Hannibal, King Arthur, Khan, Saladin, Darius I, Xerxes I, Agamemnon (excuse spelling on his dude), Patton, and so on...

    From what i knew of Alexander the Great. He was a great miltary leader and knew that true strength lay in experience over sheer numbers. his one flaw was that he continued in one direction his entire life, going towards the pacific. making macedonia less and less the center of his empire. If a capital is centrally located, choas will better be put down and law would reign supreme, rather than having the capital hundreds of miles from the new territories
    We could also add to that list people like the Duke of Wellington, Guderian, Rommel, Zhukov, (at a pinch) Mannerheim and (even more at a pinch) Konev.

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    Might as well make a nice long list of famous miltary leaders while we are at it
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