> On Saturday 05 May 2007 14:13, Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
> ... There's that famous story about somebody going to
> Lincoln and complaining that Grant drank too much. Lincoln is supposed to
> have replied, Find out what brand he drinks and send a case of it to all my
> generals.
There's a similar story earlier in the UK. http://www.answers.com/topic/james-wolfe
There was a story that when someone in the English Court
branded the young Brigadier mad, King George II retorted,
"Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals!"
-- Sandy Harris Quanzhou, Fujian, China