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  Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry in Ireland.
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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 Encyclopedia: Horatio Kitchener
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.
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.
Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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 Horatio Kitchener: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Horatio Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener (born June 24, 1850; died June 5, 1916), better known as Kitchener of Khartoum, was a British soldier.
Kitchener was made overall commander in November 1900.
Kitchener, his staff and 643 of the crew of 655 were drowned.
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 Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
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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 Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
He was made Baron Kitchener, of (The capital of Sudan located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile) 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.
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.
A week before his death Kitchener confided to (Click link for more info and facts about Lord Derby) Lord Derby that he intended to press relentlessly for a peace of reconciliation, regardless of his position, when the war was over, as he feared that the politicians would make a bad peace.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Kitchener was crated Viscount and sent to India as commander in chief of the British forces situated there, remaining in the position until 1909, when he was made Field Marshal.
Kitchener effectively oversaw war strategy for the first year and a half of the war; after the Mons battle in 1914 he travelled to Ypres to stiffen the weakening resolve of Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
Kitchener's involvement with the disastrous Dardanelles campaign led to a further tarnishing of his reputation among the cabinet.
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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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 Lord Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Horatio Kitchener was born near Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1850.
Kitchener served in Palestine (1874-78), Cyprus (1878-82) and the Sudan (1883-85).
Kitchener, he first member of the military to hold the post, was given the task of recruiting a large army to fight Germany.
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 Encyclopedia: Horatio-Kitchener,-1st-Earl-Kitchener
Kitchener was born in County Kerry in Ireland.
At the Battle of Omdurman (September 2, 1898) an army commanded by the British General Sir Horatio Kitchener defeated the army of the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad, Abdullah al-Taashi.
That failure, combined with an 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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 AllRefer.com - Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl[kich´unur, kich´nur] Pronunciation Key, 1850–1916, British field marshal and statesman.
In 1899, Kitchener was appointed chief of staff to Lord Roberts in the South African War.
In 1916, Kitchener embarked on a mission to Russia to encourage that flagging ally to continued resistance.
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 Trenches on the Web - Bio: First Earl Kitchener of Khartoum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Kitchener became the symbol of the British war effort when he appeared on a recruiting poster.
Kitchener's view of the war was at variance with the conventional wisdom.
Kitchener's autocratic ways soon put him at odds with other members of the Cabinet, and with the ranking officers in the BEF.
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 Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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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 Science Fair Projects - Kitchener's Army
Kitchener's Army represented a great turning point in the history of the United Kingdom: for the first time, the full effort of the nation and its people was committed to a massive land force fighting against other Great Powers on the Continent of Europe, with the Royal Navy playing an important but secondary role.
Contrary to general Cabinet belief that the war would be over by Christmas of 1914, Kitchener predicted a long and brutal war in which, if timed right, the arrival of an overwhelming force of new, well-trained and well-led divisions would prove a decisive blow against the Central Powers.
Kitchener fought off all opposition to his plan, and all attempts to weaken or water down its potential, including a piece-meal dispersal of the regiments.
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 Horatio Herbert Kitchener - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, från 1914 Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, viscount Kitchener of Khartoum (Lord Kitchener), född 24 juni 1850 på Crotter House, Bally Longford, County Kerry, Irland, död 5 juni 1916 i Berlin (nuvarande Kitchener), Ontario, Kanada, brittisk militär; fältmarskalk 1909, krigsminister från 1914.
Kitchener deltog efter avslutad kurs vid krigsakademin i Woolwich som frivillig på fransmännens sida i fransk-tyska kriget 1870-1871, utnämndes till löjtnant vid ingenjörskåren 1872 och var som sådan verksam vid den topografiska kartläggningen av Palestina och Cypern 1874-1882.
Efter återkomsten till England utnämndes Kitchener 1902 till general och viscount samt erhöll en (ny) nationalbelöning av 50 000 pound sterling.
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 Horatio Herbert Kitchener - netlexikon
Horatio Herbert Kitchener wurde 1850 als Sohn des pensionierten Oberstleutnants Henry Horatio Kitchener in Crotter House bei Listowel, County Kerry (Irland), geboren.
Nach dem Frieden von Vereeniging erhielt er den Titel eines Viscount (Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal, and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, 11.
1914 wurde Kitchener zum Earl (Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, 27.
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 HORATIO KITCHENER
He was made Earl Kitchener of Khartoum for his successes, and began a program restoring good governance to the Sudan, with a strong foundation based on education, not simply for the children of the local elites, children from anywhere could apply to study.
Following this, Kitchener was made C in C in India (1902-1909) where he reconstructed the Indian army against the wishes of the bellicose viceroy George Nathaniel Curzon, who became a passionate and lifelong enemy, then he returned to Egypt as Viceroy of Egypt and the Sudan (1911-1914).
Kitchener against cabinet opinion predicted a long war, lasting at least three years which would require huge new armies to defeat Germany and would suffer huge casualties before the end would come.
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 Horatio Kitchener, 1r Earl Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Horatio Herberto Kitchener, 1r earl Kitchener de Khartoum (llevado de junio el 24 de 1850; de junio el 5, 1916) murieron a un mariscal y a un estadista británicos del campo.
Kitchener rescató un fondo caritativo substancial que había sido divertido en los bolsillos del Khedive de Egipto, y puesto le para utilizar mejorar las vidas del ordinario sudanés.
Kitchener fue hecho comandante total en el retiro de noviembre 1900 Roberts de siguiente debido a la enfermedad.
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 Talk:Lord Kitchener - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I have no idea -- a google search reveals what you're talking about, but raises some questions as at least one biography concerning Lord Kitchener the poster guy and not the calypso guy says he was born in Ireland and not Trinidad, though they are apparently the same person.
Lord Kitchener, the British general was definitely a completely different person from Aldwyn Roberts the Calypsonion whose sobriquet was Lord Kitchener.
I reccomend this article be moved to something like Lord Kitchener (calypsonian), and the Lord Kichener article made into a disambiguation page.
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 KITCHENER, Horatio Herbert (1850-1916)
Kitchener of Khartoum And of Aspall, and (from 1902) Viscount Kitchener Of Khartoum, of The Vaal, And of Aspall.
Kitchener was a British field marshal and an imperial administrator.
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.
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 Reader's Companion to Military History - - Kitchener, Horatio Herbert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener's long experience of colonial warfare and his solitary nature did not prepare him well for twentieth-century challenges.
Against prevailing opinion, Kitchener correctly predicted the war would be lengthy, firmly argued for strong support of France when Sir John French wavered, and then set about successfully raising volunteer divisions (Kitchener's Army).
However, Kitchener's judgment concerning the Gallipoli campaign was faulty, and he starved the expeditionary force of men and material until it was too late.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Kitchener: The Road to Omdurman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Kitchener stands splendidly moustachioed on the cover of John Pollock's biography, looking as upright, clear-eyed and fascistically handsome as the values he represented.
In a gruff appendix at the end of the volume, Pollock denies the claim that Kitchener was gay as "ludicrous" and "offensive".
Kitchener, by John Pollock, is the biography of Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl of Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850 -1916, the victor of Omdurman and a man who, at the turn of the last century, caught the popular imagination of the peop le of Britain.
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 Biographie: Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1850-1916
Juni: Horatio Herbert Kitchener wird als Sohn des pensionierten Oberstleutnants Henry Horatio Kitchener in Crotter House bei Listowel, County Kerry (Irland), geboren.
Kitchener tritt in die britische Armee ein und wird an der Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (Großbritannien) ausgebildet.
Herbst: Gegen den Widerstand konservativer Militärs organisiert Kitchener in kurzer Zeit ein großes Freiwilligenheer ("Kitchener-Armee").
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 Horatio Herbert Kitchener Biography / Biography of Horatio Herbert Kitchener Biography 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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