“There has been a great deal too much surrendering in this war,” wrote Winston Churchill in 1899. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Churchill as a reporter for the Morning Post during the Boer war. For Millard, Churchill (whose mother was American) is not an embodiment of the British bulldog breed. By the time Buller, with Churchill in his train, reached Cape Town, Ladysmith was besieged. Despite his famous later assertion that surrendering was something the British would never do, it did his own career no harm.

Source: The Guardian September 25, 2016 06:31 UTC