enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Winston Churchill - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

    On 25 November 1915, Churchill resigned from the government, although he remained an MP. Asquith rejected his request to be appointed Governor-General of British East Africa. [179] Churchill decided to return to active service with the Army and was attached to the 2nd Grenadier Guards, on the Western Front. [180]

  3. The World Crisis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Crisis

    1915 is described as a "year of ill-fortune to the cause of the Allies", starting with the Deadlock in the West, mention of Tanks and Smoke, and ending with the Dardanelles campaign . Churchill complains in his preface that "upon me alone among the high authorities concerned (with the Dardanelles) was the penalty inflicted – not of loss of ...

  4. Gallipoli campaign - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign

    It was a costly campaign for the Entente powers and the Ottoman Empire as well as for the sponsors of the expedition, especially the First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–1915), Winston Churchill. The campaign was considered a great Ottoman victory. In Turkey, it is regarded as a defining moment in the history of the state, a final surge in the ...

  5. Winston Churchill in politics, 1900–1939 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_in...

    Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Iraq. Carroll and Graf, US (2004) Charmley, John (1993). Churchill, The End of Glory: A Political Biography. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-15-117881-0. OCLC 440131865. Churchill, Randolph. Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman. This is the second volume of the authorised biography which ...

  6. A Far Country (novel) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Far_Country_(novel)

    A Far Country is a novel by American writer Winston Churchill published in 1915. Plot introduction. The book follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood ...

  7. Dardanelles Commission - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanelles_Commission

    Winston Churchill (pictured in 1919) was largely blamed for British failures during the Dardanelles Campaign. The Dardanelles Commission was an investigation into the disastrous 1915 Dardanelles Campaign. [1] It was set up under the Special Commissions (Dardanelles and Mesopotamia) Act 1916. [2]

  8. Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_operations_in_the...

    Churchill had anticipated losses and considered them a necessary tactical price. In June 1915, he discussed the campaign with the war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, who had returned to London to deliver uncensored reports. Ashmead-Bartlett was incensed at the loss of ships and lives but Churchill responded that the ships were expendable.

  9. Electoral history of Winston Churchill - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of...

    This is a summary of the electoral history of Winston Churchill, who served in a multitude of ministerial positions between 1908 and 1955, including as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955, and as a Member of Parliament (MP) for five different constituencies between 1900 and 1964, except for a break in 1922–24.