People like Augustus and Napoleon would've been forgotten as wannabes if they hadn't been so successful. Who was close to being as great as them but failed at some point?
Who remembers
Imagine modern Sweden or even modern world if this guy won against Russians instead of be killed by accident.
>>789977
Came here to post this.
>>789930
>>789977
Russia was occupying all the Baltic provinces as well as Finland when we lost tbat war.
Alexander if he had kept his empire instead of dying of ancient AIDS
Hitler
Maximilian I of Mexico
It could be a real nation right now if he had gotten his way
>>790902
Very few people will say that Hitler was a good man, but there's no doubt he was a great one.
>>789930
If Heraclius had died before the rise of Islam he probably would have been for his success against Persia
Marc Antony could have very well beaten Octavian had Actium not been such a malaria-ridden shitshow.
not quite what you asked, but Neville Chamberlain got a fucking raw deal in terms of his legacy. forever remembered as "the man who got duped by Hitler", as well as "that guy before Churchill"
>>790947
desu Pompey should have beaten Caesar too
and Sulla was almost btfo at the Colline Gate until Crassus saved his ass
>>789930
Julian the Apostate comes to mind.
Probably a lot of the French revolutionary figures who got the guillotine
>>789930
Adolf Hitler.
>>789977
God damn Russians. Hitler, Napoleon, Charles...
>>789930
Honestly Benedict Arnold. If he hadn't defected halfway through the war, he would have been remembered as the guy that took Fort Ticonderoga and won arguable the most important battle of the war, Saratoga. He probably would have been remembered just as fondly as George Washington.
>>793319
*arguably
