The historical figure I admire the most would have to be Otto von Bismarck, the great unifier of Germany and keeper of European peace for over Thirty Decades. I am enamored by how the man could procrastinate, drink and party and then at the last minute, with no preparation, come up with a plan to save the day. You see Bismarck always had a plan. When the Danish attacked the German population of Schleswig–Holstein, Bismarck calmly turned his army facing Austria and proceeded to crush the Danes. When Napoleon III of France sought to use his massively superior force to crush the Prussians and conquer parts of the Rhineland, Bismarck used new and amazingly efficient logistic systems to beat the French army to the battle field and crush them as
