Quotes about British Defeat

Irish Republican Army

The British cannot defeat us. We will tear out their sentimental, imperiaslistic heart.

The IRA had just murdered Lord Mountbatten with a bomb on his small boat. Mountbattten, then a 79 year old, elderly man in retirement was a member of the Royal Family. His grandson was also murdered. Mountbatten had not had anything to do with Ireland but to the IRA he was a symbol of British imperialism since he had been the British Viceroy of India. Actually, it was he who had organized and presided over Indian Independence.

Pierre Laval

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

A. Peter Dewey

Cochinchina [Vietnam] is burning, the French and the British are being destroyed there and we are forced to get out of Southeast Asia.

Dewey spoke French and Vietnamese and had connections with all the parties to the struggle for the post WWII contol of IndoChina [Vietnam], His was the first official warning about Vietnam. His relations with the Viet Minh Nationalsits were very good, bue they accidently shot and killed him shortly afterwards when they heard him speaking French to French officers and assumed he was one. He had wanted to fly an American flag on his vehicle, but was prohibited by the British Militay Commander who had ordered that only military vehicles should be allowed to display a flag. He was the first American Casualty of the Vietnam Theater.

Nathaniel Philbrick

We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

Erwin Rommel

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

John Major

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

Saul David

Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.

Marquis de Lafayette

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

British Defeat Quotes