Collins one of Britain’s greatest military foes

Michael Collins has been voted one of Britain’s five greatest foes, after results of an online poll by the National Army Museum in London placed him ahead of celebrated adversaries like Napoleon, Erwin Rommel and George Washington.

Collins came second with 2,787 votes, narrowly losing out to Turkish revolutionary leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (3,090) to make a shortlist of five top military leaders.

The result means Collins could yet be named Britain’s greatest adversary, when his case, along with those of Ataturk, Napoleon, Rommel and Washington, is argued in front of a live audience in two weeks.