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  Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry in Ireland, son of Henry Horatio Kitchener and Frances Anne Chevallier-Cole.
He was created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, on 18 November 1898 as a victory title commemorating his successes, and began a programme restoring good governance to the Sudan.
Kitchener is not remembered in South Africa for his military victories, but instead for the concentration camp s that left a gigantic scar across the minds of the Afrikaners as a symbol of deliberate genocide.
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 Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (June 24, 1850 - June 5, 1916) was a British Field Marshal and statesman.
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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 The Melik Society | Earl Kitchener
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (born June 24, 1850; died June 5, 1916) was a British Field Marshal and statesman.
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.
Kitchener was promoted to Field Marshal in 1910; however, in 1911 — largely thanks to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign — he was turned down for the post of Viceroy of India.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
KITCHENER, HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER, 1ST EARL [Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl], 1850-1916, British field marshal and statesman.
In 1892 he was made commander in chief of the Egyptian army and in 1896 began the reconquest of Sudan, having prepared the way by a reorganization of the army and the construction of a railway along the Nile.
In 1899, Kitchener was appointed chief of staff to Lord Roberts in the South African War.
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 Kitchener of Khartoum, architect of disaster at Gallipoli
Commissioned in the Royal Engineers, in 1886 Kitchener was appointed governor of the British Red Sea territories and subsequently became commander in chief of the Egyptian army in 1892.
This order (which Kitchener later denied issuing) led to the famous Breaker Morant case, in which several Australian soldiers, including the celebrated horseman and bush poet Lt. Harry 'Breaker' Morant, were arrested and court-martialled for shooting Boer prisoners and civilians including children and also the murder of a German Missionary.
Kitcheners first and major mistake in the Gallipoli Campaign was in his appointment of Hamilton as the commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.
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 Horatio Herbert Kitchener Biography / Biography of Horatio Herbert Kitchener Biography
The British field marshal and statesman Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome (1850-1916), is best known for his service in British colonial wars and administration.
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was born on June 14, 1850, at Crotter House, Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland; his father, an English lieutenant colonel, had settled in Ireland.
Educated in Switzerland, Kitchener entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1868, served briefly with the French against the Prussians in 1870, and took his commission in the Royal Engineers in 1871.
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 AllRefer.com - Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl, British And Irish History, Biographies
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl[kich´unur, kich´nur] Pronunciation Key, 1850–1916, British field marshal and statesman.
By a slow extension of fortified blockhouses, the use of concentration camps for civilians, and the systematic denudation of the farm lands : methods for which he was much criticized : Kitchener finally secured Boer submission (1902).
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 Secretary of State for War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1911) (December 10, 1905 - June 12, 1912)
Herbert Henry Asquith (March 30, 1914 - August 5, 1914)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (August 5, 1914 - July 5, 1916) (died in office)
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 AIM25: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London: Microform: FM Earl Haig: autograph diaries and ...
Scope and content/abstract: Microfilmed copies of the manuscript diaries of FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, 1914-1919, and letters to his wife Dorothy Vivian Haig, Aug 1914-Mar 1919.
1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome
Field Marshal x Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome
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 Boer War art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
See also David Hart's ideas on The Art of War and Peace in his excellent Responses to War pages at the University of Adelaide.
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1890) by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, and Frederick Goodall
The Graphic employed Giles, a veteran of the 1st Sudan War (1884-1885), as a special artist during the Boer War; he was present at the Relief of Kimberley and the Capture of Cronje.
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 AIM25: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London: TOWNSHEND, Maj Gen Sir Charles Vere Ferrers ...
1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes
1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston x Curzon of Kedleston
1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford
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 Articles - Secretary of State for War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
* Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1911) (December 10, 1905 - June 12, 1912)
* Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (August 5, 1914 - July 5, 1916) (died in office)
* Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (April 18, 1918 - January 10, 1919)
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