[Ads-l] Written by the victors

[Pete Morris]

History is written by the victors,

previously antedated to 1919 and then 1889 in English, and some  
precursors in other languages.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2009-December/094767.html
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2009-December/094857.html
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2019-November/155887.html


Here's a couple of earlier cites in English.


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https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Memoirs_of_Hyder_and_Tippoo/_7QIAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22written+by+the+victors%22&pg=PA18&printsec=frontcover

<<Wilks's account being written by the victors is clear enough. 
Punganuri's account is, as usual obscure whenever Hyder meets with bad 
luck.>>

Memoirs of Hyder and Tippoo
by 'Punganuri'
English translation of the original written in Mahratta.
Footnote 10, page 18.


Note that this is a comment by the translator, not found in the original 
text.


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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53010/53010-h/53010-h.htm

<< Thus, had the northern movement succeeded, it might generally be 
acknowledged to be as justifiable as the similar popular risings of 1642 
and 1688; it failed, and the story has been written by the victors. >>

The Last Abbot of Glastonbury
A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
1884


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