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Douglas MacArthur, December 8, 1941
Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg
Bernard Law Montgomery when he stopped the advance of his troupes to have a tea break.
Grant at the Battle of the Crater
The bad "general" performace at the Crater was by Burnsides the Corps Commander and he does not qualify for this question because he was not, by any measure, a good general.
Grant's worst performance was at Cold Harbor.
Brevet Gen'l Geo A Custer was a great cavalry commander in Civil War. However as Lt Col made disastrous decision to ignore scouts and obvious as well as split his forces at Little Big Horn.
Montgomery…no question. Operation Market-Garden says it all.
Napoleon at Waterloo.
zhukov at seelow heights in 1945.
General Walther von Seydlitz artillery-Kurbach, while he was pro-Soviet propaganda and coopeeraba with the enemy, almost all the 91,000 prisoners died in the Stalingrad Goulags Siberia.