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Article: WONDER WARLORDS; Battle over list of the world's 100 top generals.(News)

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September 16, 1997
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Britons rule the world on the battlefield. Nineteen of our commanders win places in the top 100 list of the globe's military leaders - more than any other country.

Cromwell, Wellington, Nelson and Montgomery are among the 19, in a book by an American battle veteran and historian that sparked a furious war of words yesterday.

The author, Lieut-Col Michael Lanning, puts his own nation's first president George Washington at No.1. Napoleon is second and Alexander the Great, third. Hitler is listed at 14 and Saddam Hussein at 81 in rankings which include those ...

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