REF: Won the battle, lost the war quote

[Candace Foster <candacef@KALAMA.DOE.HAWAII.EDU>]

Aloha - a student used the phrase "won the battle, but lost the war" as
part of the summation in a paper on Pearl Harbor.  The teacher asked for
the source of the phrase. I didn't see the actual paper, so I don't know
if the student quoted it as an old cliche ... or what exactly. The student
came to me for help in finding the source of the quote. I tried Bartlett's
on the web, and several other web sources of quotes, also used parts of
the phrase in both altavista and dogpile searches.  I came up with a lot
of uses of the phrase ... but no mentions of where it might have
originated. Does anyone know ... or have ideas for sites besides
Altavista, Dogpile and AskJeeves that might have this kind of quote?

***
Candace Foster
Librarian, Aina Haina Elementary
801 Hind Drive
Honolulu, HI 96821
candacef@kalama.doe.hawaii.edu

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