Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery once said Rule 1 on page 1 of the book of war is do not march on this Russian city

Beaten by Napoleon at Ligny Prussian Gebhard Blücher retreated then marched west in time to turn the tide of this 1815 battle

In 1848 Marshal Windischgrätz helped get the crown of Austria for young Franz Joseph of this imperial house

Aka the Desert Fox he wanted to keep German reserves near the French coast to repel allied invasion but was overruled

Field Marshal Carl Mannerheim led this nation in its 1939-40 Winter War with the Soviet Union