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Hace 4 días · Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.
Hace 5 días · Assassination attempt against Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India. A bomb thrown by Indian nationalists at the Viceroy's ceremonial procession in Delhi. Hardinge escaped with minor injuries but his mahout was killed.
Hace 3 días · In his book, Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, Patrick J. Buchanan argues that Churchill was the biggest warmonger of the world in the first half of the 20th century. He holds that Churchill was as much to blame for the Second World War and the holocaust as Hitler and Mussolini.
Hace 2 días · An Act to provide for the Execution, throughout the United Kingdom, of the several Laws of Excise relating to Licences and Survey on Tea, Coffee, Cocoa, Pepper, Tobacco, Snuff, Foreign and Colonial Spirits and Wine, notwithstanding the Transfer to the Customs of the Import Duties on any of such Commodities. Distillation of Spirits Act 1828.
Hace 2 días · He had found consolation for his unhappy marriage in his warm friendship with the diarist Harriet Arbuthnot, wife of his colleague Charles Arbuthnot. Harriet's death in the cholera epidemic of 1834 was almost as great a blow to Wellington as it was to her husband. The two widowers spent their last years together at Apsley House.
Hace 1 día · [20] See Carlson, Eric T. “Charles Poyen Brings Mesmerism to America”. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Vol. 15, No. 2 (1960), p. 121-132 [21] Hardinge, Emma. Modern American Spiritualism: A Twenty Years’ Record of the Communion Between Earth and the World of Spirits. New York: 1870, p. 23.
Hace 5 días · Hint: On 23rd December 1912, a bomb was thrown at the Viceroy in a procession at Chandni Chowk, happening to mark the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi. The culprit evaded arrest for three years, went on to be involved in the Ghadar conspiracy and eventually fled to Japan. Complete answer: Option A.
