![]() ![]() We can learn much from his journey (which at various low points included an underwhelming academic showing at West Point, undesirable military appointments in distant posts, and once nearly ended due to accusations of mental problems, before reaching the inevitable peaks), because it's one many of us are on: the journey of learning to trust in ourselves and our own judgement. A man who, with distance, some historians have even become to go as far as to call "magnanimous." This obscures who he really was: not just a unparalleled grand strategist who managed to cut short a potentially endless civil war, but a thoughtful, loyal and humble man who throughout the course of the war went from an uncertain and occasionally unstable soldier to a confident, inspiring leader. ![]() Paradoxically, some people are disadvantageously defined by their success.Īnd so it has gone for General William Tecumseh Sherman, known as the "destroyer of the south," the heartless monster who cut a path from the Mississipi to coast during American Civil War and gave the conquered city of Savannah to Lincoln as a Christmas present. Cyrus the Great becomes known by history as a tyrannical king instead of as the "father of human rights," by which he'd founded his kingdom in the first place. So Genghis Khan becomes known as an insatiable conqueror rather than the populist, strategic genius that he was. ![]() Often the sceptre of total victory outshines the good and virtuous traits that helped earn their person to the victory in the first person. ![]()
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