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Field Marshall Alexander has
been called by authorities "unquestionably the greatest British field
commander of the second world war." He commanded the rear guard at
Dunkirk, then coordinated the Allied advances in North Africa, which led
to the German surrender at Tunis in 1943. He also commanded the forces of
many nations that drove the Germans from Sicily, forcing the Italian army
to surrender, and eventually liberated all of Italy. Of Ulster-Scottish
stock, he had probably directly descended from Scotland’s Royal House of
the Isles. |
