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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955.
[59] [60] Churchill admired the United States, writing to his brother that it was "a very great country" and telling his mother "what an extraordinary people the Americans are!" [61] With the Hussars, Churchill arrived in Bombay, British India, in October 1896. [62] [63] They were soon transferred to Bangalore, where he shared a bungalow with ...
In addition to the above, the following vice presidents were SAR compatriots and later became President of the United States: Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and Joseph Biden. Link to National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution website Presidents page -
In the late 1890s, Churchill's writings first came to be confused with those of his American contemporary Winston Churchill, a best-selling novelist.He wrote to his American counterpart about the confusion their names were causing among their readers, offering to sign his own works "Winston Spencer Churchill", adding the first half of his double-barrelled surname, Spencer-Churchill, which he ...
Churchill's sentence, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat", has been called a paraphrase of one uttered on 2 July 1849 by Giuseppe Garibaldi when rallying his revolutionary forces in Rome: "I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battle, and death." As a young man, Churchill had considered writing a biography of Garibaldi. [4]
— Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States and Medal of Honor recipient (6 January 1919), to family servant James E. Amos "Goodbye, until Heaven!" [108] ("Adeus, até ao Céu!") — Saint Francisco Marto, Portuguese Marian mysticist (4 April 1919), to his cousin Lúcia "I must get back to my work." [109]
Winston S. Churchill (Gilbert biography) Y. Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
Churchill was the son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill (née Jeanette Jerome).Lord Randolph Churchill was the son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and a direct descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; his mother was Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, an English noblewoman of Irish descent.