Napoleon is normaly considered one of the "great captains"
the gereral consensus is that the great captains are Ceaser, Hannibal Alexander, Churcill (John not Winston) Wellington and Napoleon.
the gereral consensus is that the great captains are Ceaser, Hannibal Alexander, Churcill (John not Winston) Wellington and Napoleon.
BTW Carthage was a Colony so not realy non european in that sense.
Some others, often overlooked from a Western viewpoint, would be Subutai, Timur the Lame (Tamerlane), Belisarius, Zhukov, and Suleiman I. There are more.
Arguably Marius and Sulla were the equal, if not better than, Caesar. And Pompey was no slouch either. And another great Roman general was Scipio.
Some more modern generals not mentioned are Fredrick the Great and Gustavus Adolphus, plus Rommel.
Unlikely to actually be true but a cute story.
One of Hitler's mistakes* was to believe he was a good general. Stalin at least had the good sense to let his generals get on with it.
* Thankfully.
Some would add Lee (though personally, I think that is for political/tribal reasons more than anything else... but I do acknowledge than many have a high opinion of the man, especially when it came to cavalry.) - but even those of us who sympathize with the north generally don't rate Grant much above 'competent enough' - he got the job done, but nobody is going to compare him to Caesar or Napoleon.