4GW: The German Contribution

[EJR914]

To Gain All We Must Risk All: The Imperial German Contribution to 4GW

For those who know his exploits, Vorbeck?s career has been ranked as the most successful guerilla campaign of all time (I?ve heard history professors and military experts call it ?one of the most effective? ?J.M.). With a force that never exceeded more than 14,000 men, the German general managed to consistently defeat a combined British, Belgian and Portuguese army of over 300,000 for almost five years. His main objective was to divert as many Allied soldiers to German East Africa as possible, thus relieving pressure from the Fatherland. He finally surrendered in 1918 after being informed of the Armistice. The British alone spent over ?75 million pounds trying to stop him.

Read much more here: http://mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/to-gain-all-we-must-risk-all-the-imperial-german-contribution-to-4gw/

I said, DAMN!  That guy was a beast, and we thought King Leonidas was bad to the bone!  Geeze!

[Grudgie]

Nathan Bedford Forest is another guerrilla bad ass during the Civil War.

[CrystalHunter1989]

Nathan Bedford Forest is another guerrilla bad ass during the Civil War.

Yeah, a man who accomplished much. Pretty amazing considering he never had a formal military education beyond basic training. He funded an entire cavalry brigade out of his own pocket!

[EJR914]

Nathan Bedford Forest is another guerrilla bad ass during the Civil War.

Yeah, he was a badass.  I've got some badass guerrillas in my family in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.  I wish I could be half as badass as they were.

They went up and down South Carolina and even down to Georgia and whooped up, hung, and killed people who claimed loyalty to the King until they couldn't find any anymore.  I just found that our recently.  Pretty hardcore shit.