Enemy Commanders: Britain’s Greatest Foes

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Enemy Commanders: Britain’s Greatest Foes

Last updated: 30 March 2012
Speakers TBC
14 April 2012, 10.30am - 5.30pm

From the Rani of Jhansi to Erwin Rommel, who is Britain’s Greatest Enemy Commander? Who has given the British Army the most trouble? Join some of the country’s most eminent historians in a day of fascinating talks at the end of which you decide.

We have selected a 20-strong shortlist of the most outstanding military commanders ever to face the British. The top five commanders, as decided by an online poll, will be represented at our all-day event by five leading historians.

The online voting has now closed and we can reveal that the five military leaders to be represented are:

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Michael Collins
Erwin Rommel
Napoleon Bonaparte
George Washington

Number of votes

Name Votes
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 3,090
Michael Collins 2,787
Erwin Rommel 470
Napoleon Bonaparte 304
George Washington 139
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck 123
Ntshingwayo kaM(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) 90
Tomoyuki Yama(*)(*)(*)(*)a 82
Louis Botha 80
Rani of Jhansi 78
Tipu Sultan 77
Akbar Khan 68
Paul von Hindenburg 54
Riwha Titokowaru 54
Andrew Jackson 45
Osman Digna 45
James Fitzjames, Duke of Berwick 35
Maurice de Saxe 34
Eduard Totleben 28
Santiago de Liniers 25

The speakers will be announced shortly.
Tickets can be purchased in the following ways:
Telephone: 020 7881 6600
Online: Use the booking form on this page or visit the Museum Shop
At the Museum

http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/target...-greatest-foes

[bigmikeymike]

gw all the way

[luton loyal]

[TheCapn]

Well..Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is one of the people responsible for the spreading of and unification of power that Muslims have today. So i can understand that, however id probably vote Michael Collins, considering how Ireland is still a boiling shit hole of arguments nearly a hundred years after his death.

[ices]

All of them were a big pain in the arse.

Didn't stop us from smashing them back into the hole they crawled out from.

[icheerthebull]

from one of the posts in the link

Ireland's Michael Collins. Unlike leaders of large, well equipped armies, Collins almost single-handedly organised the remnants of a crushed rebellion into such an effective guerilla force that the greatest empire of modern times was forced to sue for peace. Who else ever matched that?