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History > Early 21st century, 20th century > UK, British empire, England
UK > Winston Churchill 1874-1965
Churchill speaking at the Albert Hall in London, 1944, at an American Thanksgiving Celebration
The Churchill Centre http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/Churchill%20and%20Lincoln%20photo-landscape.jpg http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1050 http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=2
Winston Churchill 1874-1965
Prime Minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955
(L-R) Richard Nixon and WInston Churchill.
Location: Washington, DC, US Date taken: 1954
Photographer: George Skadding Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/78bdd7d02c530999.html
Winston Churchill sitting for Graham Sutherland, 1954
Graham Sutherland was one such friend.
Juda documented the painting Sutherland made of Churchill, which was later destroyed
Britain's first supermodels – in pictures Elsbeth Juda fled the Nazis and began a new life in London – as a fashion photographer. She went on to shoot everyone from Barbara Goalen, the first supermodel, to Winston Churchill and Peter Blake G Wed 28 Mar 2018 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/mar/28/
Churchill campaigning in 1951 in British general election which he won.
Location: United Kingdom Date taken: November 5, 1951
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/09a3a97fdd040ebe.html
Prime Minister Winston Churchill (L) listening to his son Randolph speak during an election tour.
Location: United Kingdom Date taken: July 1945
Photographer: Ian Smith Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/3a552f206abd4591.html
A mixed crowd listening to a speaker arguing the case for a second front in Europe in support of the Russian effort in Trafalgar Square.
Location: London, United Kingdom Date taken: 1942
Photographer: David E. Scherman Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/b1b8d86cedf47b4b.html
Winston Churchill.
Location: United Kingdom Date taken: 1939
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/99005620fd10fa2c.html
British statesman and prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) as a young man.
Date taken: 1903
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/5775cf9af0befe82.html
Mansell Collection The former Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill, with her sons John (L) and Winston.
Location: United Kingdom Date taken: 1885
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/0f6c2acdcc310c3c.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/winston-churchill https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-newhome.html https://archive.org/details/Winston_Churchill
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/world/europe/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/15/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/07/
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/23/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/15/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/oct/26/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/07/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/02/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8234000/8234106.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7980357/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/churchill-europe-second-world-war http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/19/display-warrooms-london http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/atlantic-conference-churchill-roosevelt-alliance http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/19/display-warrooms-london http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/14/churchill-bunker-richard-holmes-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/apr/20/greatspeeches3
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2002/nov/28/features11.g21
Britain's relationship with America 10 October 1951
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1951/oct/10/
1943
India
The 1943 famine in Bengal (...) killed up to 3 million people
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
24 August 1941
Pact with America: Churchill's speech after the Atlantic conference
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/
August 20, 1940
Battle of Britain
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/world/europe/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/15/newsid_3521000/3521611.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4257084.stm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/06/battle-of-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1940/aug/21/secondworldwar.germany
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/Story/0,,128255,00.html
A Short History Of The Dardanelles Campaign
Imperial War Museums
By Nigel Steel, Principal Historian
A narrow 60-mile-long strip of water that divides Europe from Asia, the Dardanelles has been of great strategic significance for centuries.
Carefully secured by international treaty, it was the closing of the Dardanelles that eventually brought the Ottoman Empire into the war as a German ally at the end of October 1914.
By late 1914, movement on the Western Front had ground to a halt.
Some Allied leaders suggested opening new fronts to break the deadlock, shorten the war and avoid heavier loss of life.
Soon after the start of the new year, Great Britain and France attempted to force the Dardanelles and attack Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
Many in Britain, notably the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, believed that knocking the Ottomans out of the war would undermine Germany.
They theorised that as a result of this attack, Britain and France would be able to help their weakest partner, Russia;
that the Suez Canal and Britain’s Middle Eastern oil interests would be secured;
and that undecided Balkan states, including Bulgaria and Greece, would join the Allied side.
It was an exciting and alluring proposition.
But it was based on the mistaken belief that the Ottomans were weak and could easily be overcome.
On 19 February 1915, British and French ships began a naval assault on the Dardanelles.
The fighting culminated in a heavy setback for the Allies on 18 March due to large losses from Turkish mines.
Military landings on the Gallipoli peninsula followed on 25 April.
Contained by the Ottoman defenders, a new assault began on 6 August.
Each fresh attempt was defeated, and by mid-January 1916, all Allied troops had been evacuated and the attack on the Dardanelles abandoned.
For the Ottomans, it was a major achievement.
The Allies succeeded only in attrition, killing thousands of Ottoman soldiers.
Even this exacted a high price; total casualties for the campaign were more than half a million.
The Dardanelles campaign remains one of the First World War’s most controversial episodes.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/ added 27 April 2015
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/
1898
Sudan
Omdurman battle
In 1898, (...) a whole panoply of British officers (including Winston Churchill) who would later fight in Europe were on hand for a battle at Omdurman, in Sudan.
The 50,000 Sudanese they faced were armed only with spears, swords and antiquated rifles.
In a few hours, the six Maxim machine guns of the far smaller Anglo-Egyptian force fired half a million bullets, leaving nearly 11,000 Sudanese dead and some 16,000 wounded, many fatally.
The battle determine the outcome of a war in less than a day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/
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