Search results
The Roaring Lion, a portrait by Yousuf Karsh at the Canadian Parliament, 30 December 1941. Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty on 3 September 1939, the day that the United Kingdom declared war on Nazi Germany. He succeeded Neville Chamberlain as prime minister on 10 May 1940 and held the post until 26 July 1945.
Jul 14, 2012 · Winston Churchill wrote every word of his many speeches — he said he'd spend an hour working on a single minute of a speech. Above, he is shown speaking during the 1945 election campaign.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill rođen je 30. studenog 1874. godine u palači Blenheim u Woodstocku, grofovija Oxfordshire. Godine 1895. završio je Kraljevsku vojnu akademiju, The Royal Military College (RMC), u Sandhurstu, grofovija Berkshire. Kao časnik britanske vojske borio se 1897. – 1898. protiv ustanika na sjeverozapadu Indije ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an adherent to ...
1874. Born 30 November to American socialite Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn, New York and Lord Randolph Churchill, second son of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was born prematurely when his mother went into labour at the family seat of Blenheim Palace. Young Winston Churchill as a student at Harrow School, 1892.
Winston Churchill was born on 30 November 1874, in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and was of rich, aristocratic ancestry. Although achieving poor grades at school, his early fascination with ...
Jul 11, 2003 · The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches (2003), pp. 48-49; The British Navy is to us a necessity and, from some points of view, the German Navy is to them more in the nature of a luxury. Our naval power involves British existence. It is existence to us; it is expansion to them.
