History's Great Generals - Statistics

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Hint	Country of Origin	Answer	% Correct
He revolutionized the use of artillery when fighting in Egypt and Germany	France and Corsica	Napoleon Bonaparte	79%
"Old Ironsides" whose motto was Lord of Hosts	England	Oliver Cromwell	44%
General who bested his^ son	Rome	Scipio Africanus	43%
He was called the Lion of the North until he got lost in a fog	Sweden	Gustav Adolf II Vasa	38%
South American revolutionary who freed much of the continent	Spanish South America	Simon Bolivar	37%
Broke the Huscarls with a well-timed charge and went from Duke to King	Normandy	William the Conqueror	34%
Rebuilder of empires, the first to employ knights, and the grandson of Europe's savior	Aachen	Charlemagne	28%
Legionary reformer, although his great-great-grandson arguably did more	Rome	Gaius Marius	24%
Carthaginian commander in the First Punic War	Carthage	Hamilcar Barca	23%
Creator of the Hetaroi	Macedon	Phillip of Macedon	21%
Recaptured the western Roman Empire but could not hold it	East Rome	Belisarius	17%
He received his title from his enemies for his great honor and won a battle posthumously	Castille	Rodrigo de Vivar aka El Cid Campeador	16%
Despite being crippled as a boy he came closer than anyone to restoring his ancestor's empire and his descendents forged a mighty empire themselves	Samarkand	Timur the Lame	16%
Inadverently created legionary tactics more than a thousand years after Rome's fall and taught them using buffalo metaphors	Nguni tribe	Shaka Zulu	14%
Avenger of Teutoburg	Rome	Germanicus Julius Caesar	13%
Genghis Khan's field commander	Mongolia	Subotai	10%
The first non-Italian to become Emperor of Rome	Hispanic Rome	Vespasian	5%
Daring commander of the Cavalier cavalry	Bohemia	Rupert of the Rhine	3%
He sunk the largest fleet that had been assembled up to that time and invented the wheelbarrow	China	Zhuge Liang	3%
He broke the power of the Turks forever	France	Eugene of Savoy	2%
Introduced breech-loading rifles and forged Germany	Prussia	Helmuth von Moltke	2%
Beginner of the end of Rome's fall	Turkey	Alp Arslan	1%
Last of the great Condottieri	Bavaria	Count Tilly	1%
The Sword of God who was instrumental in Islam's rise	Arabia	Khalid bin Walid	1%

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