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  Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry in Ireland, son of Henry Horatio Kitchener and Frances Anne Chevallier-Cole.
Kitchener rescued a substantial charitable fund which had been diverted into the pockets of the Khedive of Egypt, and put it to use improving the lives of the ordinary Sudanese.
Kitchener was promoted to Field Marshal in 1910; however, largely due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign, he was turned down for the post of Viceroy of India in 1911.
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 MSN Encarta - Kitchener
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916), British military officer and statesman, known for his conquest of the Sudan and as a symbol of British fighting spirit in the early part of World War I. Kitchener was born June 24, 1850, in Ballylongford, county Kerry, Ireland, and educated at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
Kitchener served as governor-general of the Eastern Sudan in northeast Africa from 1886 to 1888.
Kitchener was promoted to the rank of major general in 1896 and raised to the peerage as Baron Kitchener of Khartoum in 1898.
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (born June 24, 1850; died June 5, 1916) was a British Field Marshal and statesman.
In 1899 Kitchener was presented with a small island in the Nile at Aswan as a thank-you for his services; the island was renamed Kitchener's Island in his honour.
Following this, Kitchener was made C in C in India (1902-1909), where he reconstructed the badly disorganised Indian army — against the wishes of the bellicose viceroy George Nathaniel Curzon, who became a passionate and lifelong enemy.
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 Battle of Omdurman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kitchener arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide flat plain with hills rising to the left and right.
Kitchener was anxious to occupy Omdurman before the remaining Ansar forces could withdraw there and he directed the army to advance on Omdurman.
Kitchener was en-nobled as a baron, Kitchener of Khartoum, for his victory.
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 Encyclopedia: Horatio Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kitchener was born in County Kerry (Irish: Ciarraí) is a county in the southwest of Ireland, in the Munster province of the Republic of Ireland, the county is informally referred to as The Kingdom.
Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, on November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining.
Kitchener rescued a substantial charitable fund which had been diverted into the pockets of the Khedive (from Persian for lord) was a title created in 1867 by the Ottoman Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz for the then-governor of Egypt, Ismail Pasha.
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 KITCHENER, VISCOUNT - LoveToKnow Article on KITCHENER, VISCOUNT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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y the victory of Omdurman (Sept. 2), for which he was raised to the peerage as Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, received the j.C.B., the thanks of parliament and a grant of 30,000.
In June 1902 the long and harassing war came to its close, and Kitchener was rewarded by advancement to the dignity of viscount, promotion to the substantive rank of general " for distinguished service," the thanks of parliament and a grant of 50,000.
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He was made Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, on November 18, 1898 for his successes, and began a program restoring good governance to the Sudan.
Following this, Kitchener was made Commander-in-Chief in India (1902–1909), where he reconstructed the badly disorganised Indian army, against the wishes of the bellicose viceroy Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who became a passionate and lifelong enemy.
That failure, combined with the ammunition crisis, was to deal Kitchener's political reputation a heavy blow; he offered to resign but Asquith refused, although responsibility for munitions was moved to a new ministry headed by David Lloyd George.
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 Earl Kitchener - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Earl Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was bestowed in 1914 upon Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, who had previously been created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1898 and Viscount Kitchener, of Khartoum and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1902.
The titles Viscount Broome, of Broome in the County of Kent, and Baron Denton, of Denton in the County of Kent, were granted along with the Earldom.
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 Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (June 24, 1850 - June 5, 1916) was a British Field Marshal and statesman.
Kitchener was made overall commander in November 1900 following Roberts's removal due to illness.
Kitchener was promoted to Field Marshal in 1910; however, largely due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign - he was turned down for the post of Viceroy of India in 1911.
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 Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kitchener quite possibly prevented war between France and Britain when he delt firmly but non violently with the French military expedition to claim Fashoda in what became known as the Fashoda Incident.
He was made Baron Kitchener of Khartoum on 18th November 1898 for his successes, and began a program restoring good governance to the Sudan, with a strong foundation based on education, Gordon Memorial College being it's centrepiece, not simply for the children of the local elites, children from anywhere could apply to study.
A week before his death Kitchener confided to Lord Derby that he intended to press relentlessly for a peace of reconcilliation regardless of his position when the war was over, as he feared that the politicians would make a bad peace.
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 Kitchener of Khartoum.
HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER, VISCOUNT (1850-), British Field Marshal, was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. Kitchener and was born at Bally Longford, Co. Kerry, on the 24th of June 1850.
In 1896 Kitchener won the action of Ferket (June 7) and advanced the frontier and the railway to Dongola.
Kitchener's work was crowned and the power of the Mahdists utterly destroyed by the victory of Omdurman (Sept. 2), for which he was raised to the peerage as Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, received the G.C.B., the thanks of parliament and a grant of £30,000.
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 Harold Begbie. Kitchener, Organizer of Victory. 1915. Chapters VII-IX
Kitchener then, with the utmost energy, set about a series of vigorous operations by which the country was to be swept from end to end, large numbers of mounted men being required, but before they arrived Kitchener had delivered some shrewd blows at the enemy.
Kitchener, I think, is not brutal by nature, but, as we have said, has acquired brutality in the course of his journey from a big job to a bigger, and from a bigger to a still bigger.
Kitchener was speaking of his early days, and of the impressions made upon him forty years ago by all the beauty, and silence, and mystery of the East.
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 Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum PC, KBE, KCB, ADC (June 24, 1850 - June 5, 1916) was a British Field Marshal and statesman.
Following this, Kitchener was made Commander-in-Chief in India (1902–1909), where he reconstructed the greatly disorganised Indian army, against the wishes of the bellicose viceroy Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who became a passionate and lifelong enemy.
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 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After a year as governor-general of The Sudan, Kitchener entered the South African War (Boer War) in December 1899 as chief of staff to Field Marshal Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, whom he succeeded as commander in chief in November 1900.
Kitchener, who was on leave in England and had just received an earldom and another viscountcy and barony (June 1914), reluctantly accepted an appointment to the cabinet as secretary of state for war and was promoted to field marshal.
In his recruitment of soldiers, planning of strategy, and mobilization of industry, Kitchener was handicapped by British governmental processes and by his own distaste for teamwork and delegation of responsibility.
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 Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was Chief of Staff to Lord Kitchener during the Boer War and was knighted in 1902.
Kitchener appointed Hamilton to command the Allied expedition to gain control of the Dardanelles straits from Turkey and capture Constantinople.
Chief of Staff to Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, Second Boer War, 1901-1902
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 HORATIO KITCHENER, 1ST EARL KITCHENER FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He also reformed the debt laws, preventing rapacious moneylenders from stripping away all assets of impoverished farmers, guaranteeing them five acres (20 000 m²) of land to farm for themselves and the tools to farm with.
In 1899 Kitchener was presented with a small island in the Nile at Aswan as in gratitude for his services; the island was renamed Kitchener's_Island in his honour.
Mount_Kitchener in the Canadian_Rockies was also named in his honour.
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Lord Kitchener during the Boer War and was knighted in 1902.
Kitchener appointed Hamilton to command the Allied expedition to gain control of the
Chief of Staff to Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander-in-Chief, South Africa,
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Earl Kitchener of Khartoum is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was bestowed in 1914 upon Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, who had previously been created Baron Kitchener of Khartoum in 1898 and Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum in 1902.
The later titles, however, were created with a special remainder that allowed the title to pass to his brother, which it did.
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 LHCMA Hamilton catalogue: 2/3/1-33 Letters from Hamilton to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Typescript report by Hamilton to Lt Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander in Chief South Africa, on the battle of Rooiwal, Western Transvaal, 11 Apr. 5pp
Typescript copy of letter to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, Commander in Chief of the British Army from Hamilton, Chief of Staff to Lt Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander in Chief South Africa, on the signing of peace terms at Vereeniging.
Typescript copy of a letter from an anonymous officer, with recommendations to be adopted in British musketry practice in the light of the experiences of the Second Boer War, including long range sniping, the importance of firing at unseen or hidden targets, and the necessity of rapidity and accuracy of fire at extreme short ranges.
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 ROBERTSON: 4 Papers and correspondence as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1915-1918
Private letter to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, from the Rt Hon Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Bt, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, concerning information passed by him to the French with regard to the despatch of troops to the Dardanelles.
Brief penciled note from FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, concerning a telegram from Maj Gen Sir John Hanbury-Williams, Chief of British Military Mission to the Russian Army in the Field, concerning Alexandretta, Turkey.
Letter from Robertson to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, giving suggestions for the future employment of Lt Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and recommending that FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French's successor be chosen as soon as possible.
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 ipedia.com: Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum was a British Field Marshal and statesman.
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He received the resounding vote of thanks from the 200+ MPss who had arrived to question him; Sir George Arthur who only a week before had introduced a vote of censure in the House of Commons (which failed) personally seconded the motion.
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 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It is situated in the Grand River valley, 60 miles (95 km) west-southwest of Toronto.
Founded by Bishop Benjamin Eby and settled by German immigrants about 1807, the community was known successively as Sand Hill, Ebytown, and Berlin before being renamed after the British field marshal Lord Kitchener...
“Your country needs you.” With this poster appeal in World War I, Herbert Kitchener, British field marshal and secretary of state for war, assembled and organized one of the mightiest armies in his country's history.
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 Herbert Kitchener --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was born to English parents in County Kerry, Ireland, on June 24, 1850.
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British forces invaded and occupied Egypt in 1882 to put down a nationalist revolution hostile to foreign interests and remained there to prevent any further threat to the khedive's government or the possible intervention of another European power.
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 Earl Kitchener - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Pembroke, William Herbert, 1st Earl of, Baron Herbert of Cardiff...
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Elgin's acquisition of the sculptures caused a controversy that continued long after his death.
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