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  2. This was their finest hour - Wikipedia

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    This was their finest hour" was a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940, just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister at the head of an all-party coalition government.

  3. We shall fight on the beaches - Wikipedia

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    Winston Churchill took over as Prime Minister on 10 May 1940, eight months after the outbreak of World War II in Europe.He had done so as the head of a multiparty coalition government, which had replaced the previous government (led by Neville Chamberlain) as a result of dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war, demonstrated by the Norway debate on the Allied evacuation of Southern Norway.

  4. Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Wikipedia

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    World War II poster containing the famous lines by Winston Churchill – all members of Bomber command "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" [a] was a wartime speech delivered to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. [1]

  5. Be ye men of valour - Wikipedia

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    Be Ye Men of Valour was a wartime speech made in a BBC broadcast on 19 May 1940 by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill.It was his first speech to the nation as Prime Minister, and came nine days after his appointment, during the Battle of France in the second year of World War II.

  6. Winston Churchill - Wikipedia

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    Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. [2] On his father's side, he was a member of the aristocracy as a descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough . [ 3 ]

  7. Opinion - What might Winston Churchill think of Donald Trump?

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    Donald Trump's admiration for Winston Churchill was demonstrated by his display of a bust of the British Prime Minister in the Oval Office, while Churchill's commitment to democracy and the ...

  8. United we stand, divided we fall - Wikipedia

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    Winston Churchill, June 16, 1941 used the phrase "United we stand. Divided we fall" in a broadcast from London to the U.S. on receiving an Honorary Degree from the University of Rochester [ 6 ] The motto is also used by Ulster loyalists , and can be seen in some loyalist Northern Irish murals .

  9. Action This Day (memo) - Wikipedia

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    Action This Day was a 1941 memorandum sent to Winston Churchill personally, to advise Churchill that the Bletchley Park (BP) codebreaking establishment was short of staff in some critical areas. Their requirements were small, but as a small (and secret) organisation their management did not have priority.