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TIL Võ Nguyên Giáp, a general in the Vietnam People's Army, had no direct military training & was a history teacher at a French-speaking academy. He would later earn the moniker "Red Napoleon" by some Western sources. He has been called one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century

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