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	Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb - Nostalgia Central
		It was the middle of the morning when Earl Mountbatten and members of his family drove from their Irish home, Classiebawn Castle, down to the harbor and set out for a day's fishing in their 30-foot boat, Shadow V.
		Lord Mountbatten's daughter, Lady Brabourne, her son Timothy and her mother-in-law, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, were all said to be "critical" in an intensive care ward.
		The Royal Family was said to be "deeply shocked" by the murder of Earl Mountbatten, a cousin of the Queen.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /years/1979/mountbattenkilled.htm (249 words)

	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25, 1900 – August 27, 1979) was a British statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
		Mountbatten's father is said to have had a youthful affair with the actress Lillie Langtry and to have been the father of Jeanne Marie Langtry Malcolm.
		Mountbatten - known to friends and family as "Dickie" - was a strong influence in the upbringing of his great-nephew, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.
	lord-mountbatten.biography.ms (938 words)

	Lord Louis Mountbatten
		Lord Louis Mountbatten, head of Combined Operations in World War Two, was born in 1900, the great grandson of Queen Victoria.
		When the war ended, Mountbatten continued his career in the navy and by the time World War Two was declared in 1939, he had the rank of captain, and commanded the fifth destroyer flotilla.
		On August 27th, 1979, Mountbatten was murdered by a bomb planted by the IRA on his boat while he was sailing in County Sligo.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /lord_louis_mountbatten.htm (388 words)

	Lord Mountbatten
		Mountbatten was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval College (1913-16).
		Mountbatten remained in the Royal Navy and on the outbreak of the Second World War was captain of the destroyer Kelly.
		Mountbatten returned to service at sea and as Fourth sea Lord was commander of the Mediterranean Fleet (1952-55).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWmountbatten.htm (444 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - The Floating Island
		Mountbatten opened his parcel and dropped its contents between the Prime Minister's bare legs in the water.
		When Mountbatten came to visit the operation, it was so hush-hush that Lord Louis had to disguise himself as, of all things, a civilian.
		Mountbatten unveiled the invention at a tense secret meeting of the Allied chiefs of staff at Quebec's Chateau Frontenac Hotel in August 1943.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/7/floatingisland.php (1814 words)

	Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mountbatten was a distinguished Admiral, scientifically minded, who specialized in communications.
		At the outbreak of the war Mountbatten commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla and took part in the evacuation of Norway.
		Mountbatten attended the Casablanca Conference in January 1943 and the Quebec Conference in July.
	www.expage.com /wwiigen53 (364 words)

	The Hindu : What Mountbatten really did for India
		That evening, Wavell wrote in his diary that Mountbatten was "an unexpected but a clever one from their (the Government's) point of view; and Dickie's personality may perhaps accomplish what I failed to do".
		Lord Mountbatten and his biographers have been so keen to give him credit where it is not due that they have tended to overlook what was his real contribution to India — the part he played in the integration of the princely states.
		Mountbatten began by telling the princes that the Indian Independence Act had released "the States from all their obligations to the Crown".
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/mag/2003/10/12/stories/2003101200190300.htm (1301 words)

	Articles - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mountbatten - known to friends and family as "Dickie" - was a strong influence in the upbringing of his great-nephew, The Prince of Wales.
		Mountbatten and Edwina remained devoted to each other until her death at age 58 on February 21, 1960, in Jesselton, North Borneo of unknown causes.
		Since Lord Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount on August 23, 1946, then Earl and Baron on October 28, 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that the titles would pass to the female line.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma?mySession=d7cc9b404d8b42216802b5b80a106c93 (1038 words)

	mountbatin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mountbatten’s bias seems to have stemmed from the way in which his modish leftist views coincided well with the Congress hierarchy’s plan for the sub-continent to be run as secular, centrally controlled, socialist republic.
		Mountbatten ought either to have followed the logic of his plan to deprive the Princes of their paramountcy, and institute plebiscites in the States to decide which Dominion to join; or to have left them with a significant degree of autonomy, inside a federal structure.
		Mountbatten’s letter of 2 April 1948 in which he ‘reminded’ Ismay of their meeting with Radcliffe to ‘balance’ his Awards is sufficient indication that he considered he had the right to pressurise Radcliffe over just such ‘other factors’ as these.
	www.infopak.gov.pk /public/kashmir/mountbatin.htm (5055 words)

	C.U.H.&G.S. -- Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Earl Mountbatten of Burma was born H.S.H. Prince Louis Francis of Battenberg on June 25th, 1900, the younger son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse.
		As the head of the House of Battenberg, Lord Mounbatten's father adopted the surname of Mountbatten and was raised to the peerage as Marquess of Milford Haven, Earl of Medina and Viscount Alderney.
		Lord Mountbatten's connection with Cambridge much predated his being President of C.U.S.G. and later being Patron of C.U.H.&G.S. He matriculated at Christ's College in 1919 and was both admitted to the degree of LL.D. honoris causa and elected an Honorary Fellow of his college in 1946.
	www.cam.ac.uk /societies/cuhags/m_of_b/m_of_b.htm (900 words)

	The Ceremonial Funeral of Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma
		Lord Mountbatten, who was a widower, a father, a grandfather, an uncle and a great uncle died with his fourteen year old grandson Nicholas, his eldest daughter's mother-in-law the Dowager Lady Brabourne and a teenage boy from Slygo.
		Lord Mountbatten was an uncle to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and of course a great uncle to his children.
		In Lord Mountbatten's case, it was suggested that he had almost written the whole of the outline planning document, which in itself was very detailed involving no fewer that 507 personnel from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
	www.godfreydykes.info /ceremonial_funeral_of_lord_louis.htm (11465 words)

	Play - Photo Album : Lord Mountbatten, Last Viceroy of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lord Mountbatten and wife Edwina, arrived in Delhi on March 22, 1947 and in due course befriended various personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel, among others.
		The rest of the story of Lord Mountbatten’s extraordinary life and career remains to be told but the photographs here provide a glimpse into 80 highly eventful years.
		Mountbatten, flag-lieutenant to rear-admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, accompanied the Prince of Wales on a tour of New Zealand, Australia and the West Indies, 1920
	web.mid-day.com /smd/play/2003/january/42717.htm (368 words)

	COMBINEDOPS MOUNTBATTEN
		Lord Louis Mountbatten was Combined Operations Adviser from 17/10/41 to 17/3/42 and Chief of Combined Operations from 18/3/42 to 10/43.
		Mountbatten was born on 25 June 1900 the younger son of Prince Louis of Battenberg who was Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord in 1914.
		Mountbatten's military achievements and qualities were not well understood outside naval circles and he was succeeding a man of great renown, 28 years his senior and of much higher rank.
	www.combinedops.com /mountbatten.htm (1104 words)

	Mountbatten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Later in the afternoon, Mountbatten himself telephoned to say that he had discussed the matter with Lord Bradbourne and Sir Solly Zuckerman, and was all the more convinced that something had to be done 'to open up the situation' in Rhodesia and that his expedition was the thing most likely to succeed.
		Mountbatten agreed that the timing had to be considered very carefully but was confident that he could win the Queen around as he was spending the weekend with her at Luton Hoo (the great mansion of the Major-General Sir Harold Wernher in Berkshire).
		If Mountbatten was convinced of the strength of the loyalists, the public manifestion of that was simply 20 copies of an unsigned statement, refusing to recognise the Rhodesian Government, collected in a police raid on the student residences and staff houses of the University College of Rhodesia.
	home.tiscali.nl /rhodesia/mountbat.htm (4411 words)

	KASHMIR: The Storm Center of the World
		Lord Mountbatten as constitutional head of the state wrote a letter to Hari Singh on October 27 in which he mooted the question of ascertaining the wishes of the people of the state about accession to India after the Pak invaders were thrown out.
		Therefore Lord Mountbatten suggested a plebiscite under the auspices of the U.N.O. This was a clear victory for Mr.
		Therefore Lord Mountbatten who was growing apprehensive of the fighting in Kashmir degenerating into full scale war between the two Dominions, a contingency which he wanted to avoid at all costs, pressed Pt.
	www.kashmir-information.com /Storm/chapter8.html (3724 words)

	Correspondences between Lord Mountbatten and Gerhard Stamer and Werner Lott, 1946 - 1978 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lord Mountbatten was born Louis Francis of Battenberg on June 25th, 1900.
		Lord Mountbatten: "She is a free woman living in a free country.
		Lord Mountbatten arranged for him to be seen by the military commandant and soon afterwards Werner Lott was moved to new quarters, where he accepted an offered meal, honour now satisfied.
	www.u-35.com /mountbatten (1848 words)

	India's false Instrument of Accession is actually an "Instrument of Aggression" against Kashmir!
		It has been said that Lord Mountbatten insisted on the Maharajah’s signature as a precondition for his approval of Indian intervention in the affairs of what would otherwise be an independent State.
		It is to be found in an official communication by Lord Mountbatten, as Governor General of Pakistan, on 1 November 1947; and it is repeated in the White paper on Jammu and Kashmir which the Government of India laid before the Indian Parliament in March 1948.
		Lord Mountbatten, as Governor-General of India, made it clear that the State of Jammu and Kashmir would only be incorporated permanently within the Indian fold after approval as a result of some form of reference to the people, a procedure which soon (with United Nations participation) became defined as a fair and free plebiscite.
	hellinparadise.150m.com /dralistairlamb.htm (3223 words)

	Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy - DVD
		Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a 6-part British miniseries, first telecast in the US on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre.
		War hero Lord Mountbatten (Nicol Williamson), although considered a political lightweight, is appointed the task of overseeing the transition of power.
		Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was first seen on Masterpiece Theatre from January 26 through March 2, 1986.
	www.bestbuy.com /site/olspage.jsp?skuId=14908898&productCategoryId=cat02081&type=product&tab=2&id=1520908 (168 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
		Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a 6-part British miniseries, first telecast in the US on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre.
		War hero Lord Mountbatten (Nicol Williamson), although considered a political lightweight, is appointed the task of overseeing the transition of power.
		Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was first seen on Masterpiece Theatre from January 26 through March 2, 1986.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/86926/plot.jhtml (163 words)

	Broadlands Hampshire
		Lord Mountbatten demolished the Victorian wing in 1954 and made a few changes to the interior.
		A back staircase, displaying paintings of Lord Mountbatten's ancestors from the House of Hesse, leads to the Oak Room which was transformed into a cinema by Lord Mountbatten.
		The Mountbatten Exhibition, located in a former 17th century stable block, is an extensive museum to the life and times of the great man. Following a distinguished naval career in World War II Lord Mountbatten became the last Viceroy of India.
	www.touruk.co.uk /houses/househamp_broad.htm (900 words)

	Rediff On The NeT, Freedom: Alan Campbell-Johnson recalls Lord Louis Mountbatten, India's Independence and Partition
		Fingers were pointed at London for its callousness, but more specifically at the man in charge, Lord Mountbatten, for trying to rush things and thereby causing bloodshed.
		When Mountbatten accepted the assignment, the tentative date set was June 1948.
		But on reaching India in March 1947, he found that 1948 was too far, it would have to be the same year, the sooner the better.
	www.rediff.com /freedom/13allan1.htm (746 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mountbatten served in the navy during the First World War, and in the Second World War he commanded the 5th destroyer flotilla.
		In October 1943, Churchill appointed Mountbatten the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Theatre, a post he held until South East Asia Command (SEAC) was disbanded in 1946.
		Mountbatten also indulged in affairs, yet he and Edwina remained devoted to each other until her death on February 21, 1960 in Jesselton, North Borneo.
	pardus.info /index.php?title=Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma (1013 words)

	AIAON \| BBC ON THIS DAY \| 27 \| 1979: Mountbatten and Warrenpoint massacres
		Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, was killed in his boat by an IRA bomb.
		It's worth recording that a memorial service for Lord Mountbatten, his grandson and the local boy was held in the small Church of Ireland church in Cappoquin, Co Waterford.
		Lord Mountbatten was not disliked in Canada and it is offensive to suggest that he purposefully sacrificed Canadians at Dieppe in order to make a point to the Soviets and the Americans.
	amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org /onthisday/hi/witness/august/27/newsid_3617000/3617902.stm (1361 words)

	KGBMountbatten
		In a strange twist, the colonel was sent to an asylum after Lord Mountbatten was killed because the Queen's cousin was apparently a friend of the USSR.
		From the UK, John Heelan expresses doubt that the: KGB responsible for death of Lord Mountbatten: "I suggest a degree of Siberian salt should be applied to the article.
		Lord Mountbatten was not the Queen's cousin but her consort's uncle and godfather.
	wais.stanford.edu /Russia/KGBDeathMountbatten.htm (1696 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25, 1900 – August 27, 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
		In early May of 1940, Mountbatten led a British convoy in through the fog to evacuate the Allied forces participating in the Namsos Expedition (see Namsos in April 1940).
		Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill and in 1941 he replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations.
	www.nowtryus.com /article:Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma (1077 words)

	ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre \| The Archive \| Lord Mountbatten: the Last Viceroy
		But Mountbatten, from the age of thirteen, was a sailor with a developing gift for naval engineering, a love of command, and an unsleeping ambition to one day succeed his father.
		And Lord Louis subsequently became the chief British planner of the invasion of Normandy and then the supreme allied commander in Southeast Asia.
		When we take up his story in the winter of 1946-47 he's known as Mountbatten of Burma, because he could fairly be credited with having thrown the Japanese out of that country.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/archive/81/81.html (373 words)

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