But he was also a great sovereign, and a great general.
He was not a great general, but he was served by a great general, Agrippa, and by another minister of equal talents, Mecrenas.
His son Jehoiachin had reigned only three months when Nebuchadnezzar, a great general, came to carry on the siege in person.
I think Colonel Burr's talents were eminently military, and he might, in command, have shown himself a great general.
Says Wolseley, however, 'Lee was a great general, and next to him was Sherman.
The command of this army was given to Panti, the best of the Manchu generals, and Amursana, who accompanied it, received a seal and the honorary title of Great General.
Not until 1916, when the war was under way, did we get into touch again, through a delegate of the party, at Great General Headquarters.
And Bismarck's sole intention in bringing about the Congress of Berlin was, as I have pointed out, the prevention of a great general war.
Rougon, who was decidedly becoming a great general, left half of his men in front of the guard-room with orders not to rouse the sleepers, but to watch them and make them prisoners if they stirred.
On leaving the drawing-room, he took Roudier's arm with the air of a great general who is broken down with fatigue.
He remained there, alone in the darkness, and crossed his arms, in the attitude of a great general on the eve of a victory.
Our wise political rulers at that time held to the idea that a gentleman who had seen service must be a great general.
Nor, my son, have I ever before heard that it was wise in a great general to perform a feat in grand circle sailing to gain an advantage over an adversary who occupied the same roads with him.
He filled to both eye and mind the measure of a great general.
It's so, and it's one of the reasons why he's such a great general.
I feel surging within me the talents of a great general, but I'm too young to get 'em recognized.
This alternate application of extended and concentric movements is the true test of a great general.
Then there was the fatal defect of the liability to be swept away by excitement and to lose all efficient control of himself and of others in the very crisis when complete self-possession is the essential quality of a great general.
It was a curious repetition of the ancient colloquy,--"If thou art a great general, come down and fight me.
Though his military career was short, and his military situation subordinate, he fully proved that he possessed the talents of a great general, as well as those of a great statesman.
Insignificant as a private citizen, he was a great general; he was a still greater prince.
In the history of the national mind, which is, in truth, the history of the nation, we must carefully distinguish between that recoil which regularly follows every advance and a great general ebb.
This was his first independent command, and it proved that, though a good subordinate, a dashing soldier and a capable diplomatist, he did not possess the qualifications of a great general.
The Emperor roughly rejected his advice with the words, "You think that because Wellington defeated you he must be a great general.
But, great fighter as he was, he was not a great general.
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