The Day Churchill Learned Montgomery Beat Rommel

November 4, 1942, 10 Downing Street, London: Prime Minister Winston Churchill received a telegram from Cairo. According to official records, the message reported that General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army had broken through German defenses at El Alamein in North Africa. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps was retreating. Churchill, according to accounts from staff present, realized immediately what this meant—after years of defeats, Britain finally had a decisive land victory against Germany. According to documented reactions, Churchill was jubilant. Within hours, Churchill ordered church bells rung throughout Britain—the first time since 1940. On November 10, 1942, according to official transcript, Churchill gave his famous speech: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill also said: "We have a new experience. We have victory—a remarkable and definite victory." In his memoirs published in 1951, Churchill wrote: "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat." This was the day Churchill learned Montgomery beat Rommel.

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