Aazure.572 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!teklabs!tekmdp!azure!jackk Wed Feb 24 13:41:38 1982 RE: Fubar The term FUBAR actually first appeared during the reign of Queen Anne of England( 1702-1714 ), the last ruling sovereign of the Stuart Dynasty ( 1603-1714 ). The Duke of Marlborough( 1650-1722 ), John Churchill, Sir Winston's great great... grandfather, after his great victory at the battle of Blenhiem ( 13 August 1704 ) against the French, in Austria, had some captured French dispatches translated. The translator, unfortunately unknown, but believed to be a Lance Cor- poral in the Royal Guards, having some difficulty translating a slang French expression used by Marshall Tallard, the defeated French gen- eral, gave up in despair and wrote in FUBAR, although not literally translating the dispatch, expressed the French general's analysis of the situation. 1. Smith-Huxley,J.P.,"The Augustan Age of Good Queen Anne", pg386-387, R.Clay Ltd, London, ( 1903 ) SBN 384-82210-2. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.