On 20 February 1895, Winston Churchill received his first command as a second lieutenant in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars. It was his own choice, as he finished his military education with distinction in the 20th rank. He had just lost his father on 24 January 1895. On that day, he lost an important support for his career, for in reality he was brought up by a wet nurse and from the age of seven was placed in boarding schools as was the aristocratic custom. For a long time his father regarded him as a retard because he had a speech impediment and his school performance was below expectation. Win...

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In October 1896, Winston Churchill was transferred to Bombay, in British India. An accomplished sportsman, he became an indispensable member of his regimental polo team. He also used his spare time to read history books, Greek philosophers and French authors. In 1897, Churchill was again a war correspondent. Then he volunteered to go and fight against the Pashtun tribes in Pakistan. His battle reports were his first published accounts in the Daily Telegraph. He also wrote for The Pioneer newspaper. He began to gain notoriety and was even congratulated by the Prince of Wales, his mother's frien...

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On 6 November 1899 Winston Churchill published The River War, an account of the Sudan campaign and the Battle of Omdurman in two volumes. After his electoral defeat (in the spring of 1999), Churchill became a war correspondent for the Morning Post during the Second Boer War which broke out on 12 October 1899 between Britain and the Boer republics in South Africa. Always seeking notoriety, he had some trying experiences. Following scouts to the front, he was taken prisoner and held in captivity near Pretoria. He then managed to escape and travel 480 km. This escape brought him fame in Britain b...

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Winston Churchill married at the age of 33 and nine months after realizing his ambition to become an MP. He thought he had no right to distraction until this goal was achieved. What if I don't make it! What a horrible thing! It would break my heart, for I have only ambition to cling to. Elected in 1900, he met his future wife, Clementine Hozier, four years later in 1904 in the Mercury-Moon period (from 30 June 1903 to 2 August 1905). Moon in night-birth charts represents the mother and also the wife. They took four years to choose each other. He proposed to her on 10 August 1908 and they were...

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After his first election victory as a Member of Parliament Churchill sat with the Conservative party in Parliament. From 1903, the Conservatives decided to support protectionism to promote domestic trade. In March 1904, Churchill made a speech in favor of free trade, which led to a break with his party. He left it at the end of 1904 to support the Liberal Party program. It was this party that won the December 1905 election. The Liberal Party leader became Prime Minister and appointed Churchill as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies to monitor the situation in South Africa after the war. ...

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After serving five months on the Western Front in France, he returned in March 1916 to speak in the House of Commons in London where he was still a Member of Parliament. Winston Churchill was appointed Minister of Munitions on 17 July 1917 in a Liberal-Conservative coalition government. His role was to oversee the supply and arming of troops. He believed that the tanks could make a difference. The armistice was signed on 11 November 1918 ending four years of war which saw the mobilization of more than 42 millions of allied soldiers against 25 millions of hostile ones. In January 1919, he was a...

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Winston Churchill lost his seat as a Member of Parliament in the elections on 15 November 1922. His wife Clementine had to represent him during the election campaign because he became seriously ill and had an appendectomy. The Liberal Party he supported split between two leaders. He traveled for his convalescence on the French Riviera where he indulged in his hobby of painting. He lost again in the Leicester election on 6 December 1923. Winston Churchill left the Liberal Party because he formed a new government with Labour. He stood as an independent and after another defeat won the election o...

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Winston Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer until the elections of 30 May 1929 when the Conservative Party was defeated. He attended conferences in the United States which led to his presence on the New York Stock Exchange on 24 October 1929, the famous day known as Black Thursday. After that he had ten years of obscurity because he disagreed with the views of the majority of his party. He defended energetic options when the time was ripe for moderation. It was the anti-war spirit that dominated public opinion. He devoted his time to pursuing his literary work.Following the invasion of P...

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Winston Churchill was appointed Prime Minister by King George VI on 10 May 1940 at 6.30 pm. That morning, Adolf Hiter had ordered the invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands ending the phoney war, the first eight months of which saw no offensive against France. This appointment was the consequence of the disavowal of the outgoing Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, by Labour and the Liberals following his hesitations. Churchill supported a more dynamic strategy of preventive interventions even in neutral European countries.At the beginning of his mandate the military situa...

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On 7 May 1945, in a school in Reims, France, the German General Staff of the Western Front signed its unconditional surrender. Winston Churchill proclaimed the surrender of Germany and the cessation of hostilities by midnight plus one minute, on 8 May 1945. This same day, the Nazi General Staff in Berlin confirmed its surrender.On 19 May 1945, the Labour Party left the government, ending the wartime period of national unity. New elections were held on 5 July. The surprising result was that the Labour Party won for the first time since its foundation. After leading his country to total victory,...

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After his defeat in 1945, Winston Churchill took up his two passions, writing and painting. He accepted the responsibility of Leader of the Opposition obtained through his experience and great popularity. He focused his communication on the international sphere. The victory in 1945 resulted in the strengthening of Stalin's communist dictatorship. Many European countries, such as sacrificed Poland, found themselves behind the "Iron Curtain" under Bolshevik rule. Winston Churchill positioned the Conservatives political line on the center-right. At the European level, he refused to align himself ...

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While working at 10 Downing Street, Winston Churchill suffered a stroke on 23 June 1953. His secretariat announced he was very tired and weakened to justify several weeks of absence and convalescence from this event kept secret. He had a temporary speech impairment and difficulty in moving. He was able to attend a Conservative Party meeting in October of the same year. Following this attack, he decided to retire in 1955 at eighty years old. In Winston Churchill's Horoscope:On June 23, 1953 is positioned at 13° 18' of Pisces. This degree of the day is in the House VI, that of disea...

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Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on 15 October 1953 for his mastery of historical and biographical description, his outstanding speeches and his defense of human values. His most famous works are six volumes of memoirs, The Second World War, and four volumes of history, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the outbreak of the First World War (1914).In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II named him a Knight of the Order of the Garter. In 1958, General de Gaulle appointed him a "Compagnon de la Libération". I...

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