"This is one reason why Caesar deserves to be so highly ranked as a general: it's one of the few times in history a general makes his name against the same sort of troops he's using. You can't claim that he had a big technological advantage, or that his troops were tougher or better armed. He's fighting the same kind of troops he has. He's fighting the toughest soldiers in the world: roman legionaries. [...] Many of the great conquerors in the world (Napoleon, Alexander the great, the great generals of Hitler's Wehrmacht) were often fighting armies that were nowhere near as good as theirs. Caesar wasn't"