Which famous commanders really count as mavericks?

Robert Harvey's book is worth reading, although its maverick label does not fit every commander on the contents page equally well. Robert Clive looks more like a businessman-general, while James Wolfe, George Washington, and Wellington also prompt skepticism. Nelson and especially Thomas Cochrane seem more plausible mavericks, and Garibaldi receives a clear endorsement. Ulysses S. Grant departed from officers who revered Napoleon but retained much conventional operational practice; William Tecumseh Sherman might have been the clearer choice. Rommel and Montgomery receive only quick consideration, Patton a more favorable verdict, and MacArthur is treated chiefly as a political figure. Personality, social background, operational method, and political ambition do not form one tidy category, which is why the maverick label fits some names better than others.