Favorite leader of your country?

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  1. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    If you're American, favorite president; if you're British, favorite monarch or prime minister; etc. Except it can't be your current leader, or the previous leader, to avoid modern politics.

    As an American, I gotta go with President Ulysses S. Grant. Officer in the Mexican War, General in the Civil War, and an overall awesome dude. I wanna read his memoirs someday.

    Et tu?

    Edit: I am changing my answer, the top three are, in no particular order, Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland.
    The Shaw, Aug 13, 2011
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  2. MayorEmanuel Do not weep, for salvation is coming.

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    Andrew Jackson: killed the bank, forced France to pay reperations for the Napoleonic wars, battle of New Orleans, and saved the Union. need I say more?
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  3. Emperor Napoleon Mr. Multi

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    Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. AKA me.
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  4. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    Who's your second favorite leader of France?
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  5. Emperor Napoleon Mr. Multi

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    Who's your second favorite leader of France?[/quote:30fxlij3]

    Thats a hard one ill have to go with King Louis the 14th.
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  6. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    Why? Wasn't he kind of crazy? Or was that someone else?
    The Shaw, Aug 13, 2011
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  7. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    Well yup kinda....

    I would have to say FDR for the New Deal that brought us out of the depression, he served 3-4 terms in office, and lead America through World War 2
    slydessertfox, Aug 13, 2011
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  8. UnholyKnight800 Well-Known Member

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    The New Deal didn't do much really
    UnholyKnight800, Aug 13, 2011
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  9. DukeofAwesome Well-Known Member

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    no it did plenty. it made the Great Depression much worse than it would have been otherwise. but i think my favourite president would probably be Theodore Roosevelt. that man is my GOD!
    DukeofAwesome, Aug 13, 2011
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  10. UnholyKnight800 Well-Known Member

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    Economically no but it did give people hope if that counts for something
    UnholyKnight800, Aug 13, 2011
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  11. Artismoke Well-Known Member

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    Harold Godwinson- last Anglo-Saxon king of England and first English king to die in battle (from a total of three) as he fought the Norman invasion in 1066. Some say he was shot through the eye with an arrow.

    Saxon men!
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  12. Spartacus Well-Known Member

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    This, Jackson was a badass.
    Spartacus, Aug 13, 2011
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  13. Adamska New Member

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    Ferdinand Marcos: He was one of my country's greatest and worst president. He made more roads, schools and hospitals than all his predecessors combined but he was also one of the worst Dictators my country has seen.
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  14. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    Getulio Vargas: instituted a minimum salary, created the first private company in the country, he also with the government bought and burned all the coffee that wasn't being exported to the US due to the crisis, saving us from an economic crack and much more that I don't remember now. He got to power by a Coup d'Etat and ruled from 1930 to 1945, then he abdicated, but won the elections in 1948 but he suicided in 1952 because his oponent made him look bad, but after the suicide his oponent looked bad and the people voted in Getulio's party.
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  15. Tito Well-Known Member

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    FDR
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  16. Imperial1917 City-States God of War

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    Wasn't Jackson the one who was confronted by an assassin who pulled 2 pistols on him, both of which jammed, and then he [Jackson] proceeded to beat the guy[the poor assassin] with his cane? And the bystanders had to rescue the assassin?
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  17. MayorEmanuel Do not weep, for salvation is coming.

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    yes
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    Amen hallelujah bredaren.
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    William the Silent AKA William of Orange. The leader of the Dutch war of independance AKA The Eighty-Years War.
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  20. JayJayGT Well-Known Member

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    Oooh, tricky very tricky... I'd have to say Winston Churchill, in recent years... or Thatcher, but further on down the historical timeline, I'd say Henry V, Richard the Lionheart, Edward VII, Elizabeth I or Anne.
    JayJayGT, Aug 14, 2011
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