Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was a general in the Imperial German Army and in some battles though his men were outnumbered as much as 20 to 1, he held off the British in East Africa for 4 years. He was a national hero after the war and in 1935 when he was offered the ambassadorship to Great Britain, he reportedly told Hitler to go fuck himself.