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Mountbatten was found alive by fishermen who rushed to the site of the explosion, but he died before reaching shore. Also killed were Mountbatten's 14-year-old grandson Nicholas Knatchbull, and Paul Maxwell, a teenage boy from Enniskillen serving as crew.
- A Sunny Day Turns Grim
- Mountbatten, Mentor to King Charles, Was An Easy Target
- Fear and Outrage
August 27, 1979, a Bank holiday, had dawned sunny, following days of rain. “Dickie” Mountbatten and some of his family who had been staying at their holiday home, Classibawn Castle near the Village of Cliffoney, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland, decided to take an outing on their boat to take in the good weather. Fifteen minutes after settin...
Mountbatten was both a sentimental and symbolic target. “He was one of the most respected members of the royal family and was serving as mentor to [then] Prince Charles,” says Jeffrey Lewis, lecturer in the International Studies Program at Ohio State University. Mountbatten was also an easy target. The bomb had been placed in his unguarded boat the...
The August 27 attacks led to widespread fear and outrage in the region, according to Lewis. “The indiscriminate nature of the attack led many to condemn the IRA as savage and cowardly,” he says. “At the same time, the sophistication of the bomb—it was detonated by radio remote control—coupled with the Warrenpoint ambush suggested that the IRA was b...
- Lesley Kennedy
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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.
10 de dic. de 2020 · Lord Mountbatten’s death On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten went lobster fishing on his wooden boat, Shadow V, in the village of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland, where he...
- Sabrina Barr
El funeral de Lord Mountbatten se llevó a cabo en la Abadía de Westminster el 5 de septiembre, un evento que se describe en la nueva temporada del drama de Netflix. El príncipe Carlos, que entonces tenía 30 años, pronunció una lectura en la ceremonia, leyendo la lección del Salmo 107.
El asesinato de Luis Mountbatten, pariente de la Familia real británica, fue un atentado, perpetrado el 27 de agosto de 1979 por Thomas McMahon, un republicano irlandés y voluntario del Ejército Republicano Irlandés Provisional (IRA).
15 de nov. de 2020 · El 27 de agosto de 1979, lord Mountbatten, tío del duque de Edimburgo, y uno de sus nietos, Nicholas Knatchbull, fueron asesinados por el IRA mientras pasaban sus vacaciones de verano.
