This former history teacher led armies that defeated both French and American forces.
Vo Nguyen Giap
Erwin Rommel
Charles Cornwallis
Edward Braddock
North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap. After graduating from the University of Hanoi he taught French history at the Thăng Long school in Hanoi for a year. Reportedly, he told his students that if they wanted to learn French history, they could read it themselves – he was going to teach them about Napoleon.