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4 days ago · General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman.
3 days ago · The Speech. Churchill‘s "Iron Curtain" speech was a clarion call to the Western world to wake up to the threat posed by Soviet expansionism. Speaking to a packed audience at Westminster College, Churchill painted a stark picture of a continent divided between the "free" West and the "totalitarian" East. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste ...
5 days ago · John Churchill was the first Duke of Marlborough a military genius whose brilliance on the battlefield saved England from defeat just as his descendant Winston Churchill saved Britain 300 years later...
3 days ago · World War I, international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other regions. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.
1 day ago · The History Channel’s new 4-hour docuseries “The Great War” covers U.S. involvement in World War I in the critical year of 1918 and is set to premiere Monday, May 27 at 8 p.m. The story ...
4 days ago · He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. 30.11.1874. Churchill was born into an aristocratic family, and was the grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough.
2 days ago · The first major upgrade to this type was the subject of this kit, the Mk III, introduced in 1942. This featured a new, larger, welded turret (this was the only version of the Churchill with an all-welded turret, though some later versions had a hybrid cast/welded turret) armed with a more powerful 6-pounder main gun and a co-axial Besa machine-gun.
