today's trivia
When Anthony Eden said, “Never had so much been surrendered by so many to so few", who had surrendered?
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1w
pretty sick his entire Prime Ministership.
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Probably the Italians in North Africa.
Actually, it pretty much describes the Italians in the entire war.
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1w
Eden, who later became British Prime Minister, made this famous statement on January 4, 1941, following a massive victory by British forces against the Italians in the Western Desert during World War II. Somewhere around 130,000 Italian soldiers surrendered to somewhere around 35,000 British soldiers. He was playfully rewriting a famous quote made by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who had previously said about the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
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