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   XPost: soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if   
   From: rrostrom@comcast.net   
      
   Phil McGregor  wrote:   
      
   > In fact, the RAF won the BoB handily while the leaders thought it was   
   > a close run thing, and the Luftwaffe lost the BoB decisively, even   
   > though the leaders believed they had fought the RAF to a standstill.   
      
   Oh, yes... It's important to realize that contemporary   
   perception of events may be seriously mistaken. This   
   is especially true when reliable metrics were not then   
   available.   
      
   For instance, Teddy Roosevelt thought he might lose the   
   US election of 1904. Chief Justice Taney thought that   
   either Fillmore or Fremont would win the US election of 1856.   
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   Nous sommes dans une pot de chambre, et nous y serons emmerdés.   
   --- General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot at Sedan, 1870.   
      
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