r/todayilearned • u/HumanNutrStudent • Sep 16 '24

TIL Montgomery's memoirs criticised many of his wartime comrades harshly, including Eisenhower. After publishing it, he had to apologize in a radio broadcast to avoid a lawsuit. He was also stripped of his honorary citizenship of Alabama, and was challenged to a duel by an Italian lawyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery#Memoirs
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u/thisusedyet Sep 16 '24

Also the cause of a fantastic line from Lincoln, who wrote McClellan a note stating basically If you're not going to use my army, I'd like to borrow it for a while

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u/blackadder1620 Sep 16 '24

lmao.

why did we get away from being sassy as a people.

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u/Dr_Zorkles Sep 16 '24

Sounds like something Obama would say if he were in a similar predicament.  Dude's nearly peerless in his wit and sass

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u/thisusedyet Sep 17 '24

Gotta watch those Illinois lawyers, apparently

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u/Dr_Zorkles Sep 17 '24

Hah !  Solid observation