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Churchill’s birth
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First Mohmand campaign
"We proceeded systematically, village by village, and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the great shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation. So long as the villages were in the plain, this was quite easy. The tribesmen sat on the mountains and sullenly watched the destruction of their homes and means of livelihood….At the end of a fortnight the valley was a desert." (Winston Churchill, My Early Life) -
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WW1
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WW2
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Refusal of a peace treaty with Germany
In the midst of the war, the possibility of a peace treaty between the UK and Germany emerges. Churchill firmly rejects, willing to fight to the end. -
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1st mandate as a Prime Minister
During the chaos caused by WW2, Winston Churchill is chosen by George VI to become the Prime Minister of the United-Kingdoms. -
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2nd mandate as a Prime Minister
Winston Churchill is appointed again for his second and last mandate which will last under the reign of the queen Elizabeth II -
Nobel prize of literature
Churchill is rewarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1953 « for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values. -
Churchill’s death
