Winston Churchill
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- Churchill
- Early Life
- Churchill Was born In Blenheim Palace in 1874
- In 1893 Winston attends the Royal Military College at Sandhuest
- In 1895 Winston graduated and was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the 4th Queen's own Hussars as part of the Cavalry
- Married Clementine Hozier in Westminster in 1908
- In 1896 he was transferred to Bombay- British India and fought against the Pashtun tribe
- Political ideas and beliefs
- Churchill left the conservatives in 1904 to join the liberal party. He joined the conservatives again in 1920
- The labour party supported him more than his own party in 1939
- Winston is elected Prime Minister in 1940
- Re-elected for a second term in 1953
- Churchill did not believe that appeasement could stop Hitler
- Winston was strongly against India's independence
- Spoke out about Gandhi, and his non violent protesting. Churchill believed that India was the 'jewel of the British Empire'
- Winston didn't believe that any other country had a Navy that could rival Britain
- Introduced the minimum wage to the Uk
- Personal Life
- Churchill and Clementine had four children together
- Churchill died exactly 70 years after his father
- He had an injury to his arm most of his life which meant that he couldn't fight with a sword
- His funeral was at St Pauls Cathedral in1965
- Winston's full name is Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.
- Winston received The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953
- Winston had two strokes
- Military + Political Life
- Winston was ambushed and imprisoned in India, but escaped by climbing the prison walls
- Churchill was the President of the Board of trade
- Winston was the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Churchill started his political life as reporter in wars
- Winston was anti-Stalin, but when he realised that he could benefit from him in the war they became allies.
- He was against women's rights, but when he realised how many women supported him he was with them
- Early Life
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