"Which General Has The Best All Time Name " Topic

When I recently watched the Ken Burns "Civil War" documentary the constant repetition of the casts names made me realize that the civil war had some of the best sounding names I had ever heard:
Stonewall Jackson, Nathan Bedford Forest, Jubal Early, William Tecumseh Sherman…Robert E. Lee, Gouverneur Warren (Is that his real name?)

My personal favourite: Bushrod Johnson (that CANNOT be his real name…I googled it and it said it was…WARNING googling "Bushrod Jackson" is not for the faint of hearted :0

Anyway whats your all time favourite Name for a protagonist in wartime…

Lt. General Manley Power

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I assume this chap was a descendant.

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Ptolemy Keraunos = Ptolemey Lightning

:p

Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin

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@Flintloque His nick name "wooden box" is not nearly as strange as his real name…crazy

Manly Power had me laughing out loud

Don't know about best, but it's in there for oddest: Brigadier General States Rights Gist.
Confederate, of course.

Stonewall is certainly a neat name – but there are a couple more that I am more fond of

As to real names, Smedley Darlington Butler sounds like a professor of English Literature at Oxford – but in fact was a tough-as-nails, storm that hill and take no prisoners Marine who was as honest as he was valiant

For nicknames, I have always been fond of Louis Nicholas Davout- it isn't everyone who gets to be called The Iron Marshal

Mad Anthony Wayne

Vlad the impaler.

And to answer your query about Goveurner Morris:

Gouverneur Warren (Is that his real name?)

While not exactly common, the name in American politics is not unprecedented.
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Governeur Morris was a Founding Father, a statesman and a Ladie's Man. Sort of a Benjamin Franklin Lite.

I remember someone telling me there was actually a 'rear admiral butts'
Are navy names allowed?

King John Softsword of England. Lackland was his more common nickname before getting the throne but he faired so miserably as a general he became 'Softsword'.

The 19th century African warlord Mirambo = "Heaps of Corpses".

Hotspur

Native American names can be quite fun sometimes. Always sort of felt sorry for "Afraid of Horses".

Absalom Baird and William King Fenno Mansfield.

Richard The Lion Heart.

Alexander the Great. When you conquer the world, as you know it, "great" is the least people can call you!

Upvote for Flintloque for Pine-Coffin. I favor William Read Scurry: "General Scurry" has a great ring. Napoleon III's heir the Prince Imperial was sometimes called "Craint-Plombe" or "Fears lead."

Jubilation T. Cornpone, sadly only a cartoon general.

I got you all beat….General Butt Naked aka Joshua Milton Blahyi. Commander during the First Liberian Civil War in the 90s. Practiced human sacrafice & cannibalism. Led his men(boys) into battle totally naked, hence the name…one of the most feared Liberian commanders. Now of course he is a minister, go figure.

General Butt Naked…. now of course he is a minister….yes presumably a Government Minister or maybe a Religious Minister??? Both perhaps??? Anything in this crazy world is possible…

Maybe I don't need to know…

Terrible war ….Thanks for the info Jason

I tend to discount Stonewall, because that was a nickname, not given.

However, there are plenty of others that are quite good. Do rather like Jubal Early, of course. I did that perilous Google of Bushrod Johnson, and ran right into Simon Bolivar Bruckner.

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Too bad it wasn't General Bumpus…

I remember someone telling me there was actually a 'rear admiral butts'
Are navy names allowed?

As long as his first name wasn't Seymour…

Thanks, Bart!

Doug

Mr. War Panda…he is a religious minister now. There are many videos of him on Youtube should you care to learn more. It is a VERY disturbing story though I must warn you.

Noooooooo…LoL …Jason I was joking when I said a religious one (though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised)…I presumed he was a government minister…

Thanks for the warning but my curiosity will get the better of me. I need to know more :)

Generalfeldmarschall Graf Helmuth Karl von Moltke der Ältere – „der große Schweiger"

It was James Jones' history of WW2 that said "Unfortunately for the Germans, they had in the British an enemy equally as stiff-necked supercilious and arrogant as themselves."

Certainly the two nations can provide pretty stiff competition to one another with elaborately-named General officers, each holding some of their nation's highest awards for bravery. Consider if you will:

Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC.

Lt-Gen Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO.

Generalleutnant Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.

General der Panzertruppe Fridolin Rudolf Theodor, Ritter und Edler von Senger und Etterlin, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

[Apologies to the shades of the very expert gallant gentlemen listed above if I haven't got their decorations in full.]

Though he never made it past Captain, I trust and believe that Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache would have gone all the way, had he not died of the 'flu in '17.

Likewise Lt-Col Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Bart DSO might have made General if he hadn't been killed at Cassino in '43.

The war at sea seems to offer no comparably-magnificently named admirals, but among more junior ranks there is Kapitänleutnant Freiherr Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim, Iron Cross 2nd class, Iron Cross 1st class, Order of the Crown, and, on the Royal Navy side, Cdr John Percy de Winton Kitcat DSO, and Cdr Charles Arthur de Winton Kitcat, MBE.

Fine men all, I'm sure.

All the best,

John.

Given the lasciviousness of many of that conflict's leaders, it should perhaps surprise no one that Benny Hill held a Constitutionalist general's command in the Mexican Revolution (well, Benjamin Hill, strictly speaking).

Who can ever forget the comedian's iconic grinning, squinting, saluting caricature of his bespectacled martial namesake? And you all thought he was just wearing a postman's uniform!

Black Jack Pershing is pretty cool as is Crazy Horse.

Stonewall Jackson pretty much eclipsed the other Generals Jackson in the American Civil War, at least one of whom ended up as Mudwall Jackson in comparison.

Grelber

"…Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache…"

It is a good thing that he did not play modern sports. He would have needed several jerseys to accommodate his name. Also, the game would have been over by the time that they finished introducing the players by name.

Wellington – lost his first skirmish, but never a battle! And won with minimum casualties…

Always liked the sound of Bindon Blood.

The commander of the British Guards brigade serving in Western Germany during the Seven Years War was named Julius Caeser.

Napoleon Bonaparte. What other name could a general want? Apart from Alexander the Great perhaps.

Marlborough- never laid siege to a town he did not take, never gave battle he did not win.

Colonel Blood at Blenheim,

It has to be Mursilis. Mursilis by name Merciless by nature. Well, he was a Hittite king!

From the ACW, General Grumble Jones.

"As to real names, Smedley Darlington Butler sounds like a professor of English Literature at Oxford – but in fact was a tough-as-nails, storm that hill and take no prisoners Marine who was as honest as he was valiant"

Who was also known as "Ol' Gimlet Eye".

And I remember reading that General Grant stopped using his name Hiram Ulysses Grant after he was laughed at when first at West Point for his initials being "H.U.G."

General George S. "Blood and Guts" Patton, or General Judson "Kill Cavalry" Kilpatrick.

Melissa Mounts

George Armstrong Custer.