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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for burma
		Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–79) British admiral, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, uncle of Prince Philip.
		Mountbatten, Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma A Dictionary of World History...
		Mountbatten, Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–79) British admiral and administrator.
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	Mountbatten - MSN Encarta
		Louis Mountbatten was educated at home until the age of ten, then attended preparatory school at Locker's Park before attending the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth in 1914.
		Mountbatten worked with these men and the leader of the Muslim League, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to devise a plan for partitioning the empire into two sovereign states, India and Pakistan.
		Mountbatten, heavily decorated, returned to the Mediterranean Fleet as rear admiral in command of the 1st Cruiser Squadron in October 1948.
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	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Details, Meaning Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ...
		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.
	www.e-paranoids.com /l/lo/louis_mountbatten__1st_earl_mountbatten_of_burma.html (998 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
		Mountbatten came down firmly on the side of Prince Albert, the Duke of York, who was to assume the throne as George VI in his brother's place.
		Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill — though Churchill was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India — and on 27 October 1941 he replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations.
		Mountbatten took great pride in enhancing intercultural understanding and in 1984, with his eldest daughter as the patron, the Mountbatten Internship Programmewas developed to allow young adults the opportunity to enhance their intercultural appreciation and experience by spending time abroad.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma (2503 words)

	Royal Family Archives - Louis of Battenberg to Mary Adelaide
		Mountbatten served as British viceroy of India from March to August 1947, and governor-general of the new dominion of India from August 1947 to June 1948.
		Mountbatten was killed when a bomb, planted by terrorists of the Irish Republican Army blew up his fishing boat in Donegal Bay, near his home.
		of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Elizabeth Albertin of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
	www.scotlandroyalty.org /archives/r05.html (1100 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 (1072 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 (437 words)

	Louis
		Louis (St.) is usually represented as holding the Saviour's crown of thorns and the cross, sometimes, however, he is represented with a pilgrim's staff, and sometimes with the standard of the cross, the allusion in all cases being to his crusades.
		Louis IV of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach, born 1282, was duke of Bavaria from 1294, duke of the Palatinate from 1329 and, after 1314, Holy Roman Emperor.
		Louis VII died on November 18, 1180 at the Abbey at Saint-Pont, Allier and is interred in Saint Denis Basilica.
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	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		Mountbatten was the younger son of Prince Louis of Battenburg, and great-grandson of Queen Victoria.
		Since 1938, Mountbatten had been contributing ideas to the construction of a new destroyer, HMS Kelly, and in June 1939, he took over as Captain, and on 20th September 1939 he was in command of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla.
		In June 1946, Mountbatten was raised to the peerage as Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_louis_mounbatten.htm (934 words)

	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven Information
		He was the father of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and of Queen Louise of Sweden, and was the maternal grandfather of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
		Prince Louis rose to the rank of captain and became an aide-de-camp to the Queen in 1891.
		Prince Louis' younger son, styled Lord Louis Mountbatten after 1917, was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma in 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in 1947.
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	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma information - Search.com
		His second son acquired the courtesy style Lord Louis Mountbatten and was known as Lord Louis informally until his death notwithstanding his being granted a viscountcy in recognition of his wartime service in the Far East and an earldom for his role in the transition of India from British dependency to sovereign state.
		Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill — though Churchill was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India — and in 1941 he replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations.
		Mountbatten took great pride in enhancing intercultural understanding and in 1984, with his eldest daughter as the patron, the Mountbatten Internship Programmewas developed to allow young adults the opportunity to enhance their intercultural appreciation and experience by spending time abroad.
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	Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Personnel List - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
		Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill and in 1941 he replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations.
		Mountbatten - known to friends and family as "Dickie" - was a strong influence in the upbringing of his great-nephew, The Prince of Wales.
	www.royal-navy.org /personnel/content/view/8/4 (1251 words)

	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mountbatten's loyalties between the wider Royal Family and the throne, on the one hand, and the then-King, on the other, were tested.Mountbatten came down firmly on the side of Prince Albert, the Duke of York, who was to assume the throne as George VI in his brother's place.
		Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill — though Churchill was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India — and on 27 October 1941 he replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations.
		Mountbatten's assassination was accompanied by the deaths of eighteen soldiers, belonging to the Parachute Regiment, the same day in the Warrenpoint Ambush in County Down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma (2408 words)

	English Lord Assassinated in Terrorist Attack While Vacationing Aboard Fishing Boat - 27th Anniversary
		The assassination of Mountbatten was the first blow struck against the British royal family by the IRA during its long terrorist campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite it with the Republic of Ireland to the south.
		Louis Mountbatten, the son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria I, entered the Royal Navy in 1913, when he was in his early teens.
		Mountbatten's grandson Timothy--Nicholas' twin--was injured; as was his daughter, Lady Brabourne; and the twins' father, Lord Brabourne.
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	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)

	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Summary
		Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was a British naval leader and statesman who served his country from 1920 until his assassination by Irish terrorists in 1979.
		Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
		Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill — though Churchill was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India — and in 1941 he replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations.
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	C.U.H.&G.S. -- Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.societies.cam.ac.uk /cuhags/m_of_b/m_of_b.htm (900 words)

	Lord Mountbatten
		Louis of Battenberg, the great grandson of Queen Victoria, and second cousin of George V, was born in Windsor, England, on 25th June, 1900.
		Mountbatten remained in the Royal Navy and on the outbreak of the Second World War was captain of the destroyer Kelly.
		Louis Mountbatten was murdered by an IRA bomb while sailing near his holiday home in County Sligo, Ireland, on 27th August, 1979.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWmountbatten.htm (444 words)

	British Empire: Biographies: Louis Mountbatten
		Born at the turn of the century Louis Battenberg (as his family was called then) was related to both the British and German Royal families.
		The experience of Mountbatten in this part of the world, his royal connections and his liberal political leanings were to make him a highly palatable Viceroy to India for the incoming British Labour government: Determined as they were to divest themselves from the Indian sub-continent.
		Mountbatten became close personal friends with the Indian leaders Gandhi and Nehru (although not as close as his wife was to become with the latter).
	www.britishempire.co.uk /biography/mountbatten.htm (643 words)

	Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Burma (1900-1979)
		Earl Mountbatten of Burma, by Stephen Luscombe (The British Empire)
		Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Nicholas, by Yannis Kadari (www.1939-45.org)
		Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society)
	www.regiments.org /biography/royals/1900louM.htm (483 words)

	Mountbatten
		Louis was talented in wireless communication, and he invented lots of devices that were adopted by the Royal Navy.
		Mountbatten, however, decided that the agreement was temporary and that the people of Kashmir would have to decide which country to join on the basis of a vote under the rules of the United Nations.
		Mountbatten played an important part in both the making of peace and the breaking of peace for more than 40 years in many parts of the world.
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	Pikle - The Diary Junction - Louis Mountbatten
		Mountbatten was born in Windsor Castle, the second son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine.
		Thus, the head of the House of Battenberg adopted the surname of Mountbatten and was raised to the peerage.
		As the younger son of a marquess, the Louis was accordingly known as Lord Louis Mountbatten.
	www.pikle.demon.co.uk /diaryjunction/data/mountbatten.html (547 words)

	WW2DB: Louis Mountbatten
		Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas of Battenberg was born in Windsor Castle, England, into royalty.
		In a political move, Mountbatten was promoted by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the position of the head of Combined Operations Command, with effective rank of a navy vice admiral, an army lieutenant general, and an air marshall.
		This move upset some of the more senior military officers who thought Mountbatten was ill-suited for the job: despite Mountbatten's reputation of being a daring and effective navy commander, he also beared the burden of the disaster at Dieppe, where thousands of Canadian troops lost their lives.
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	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Sotheby?s in London auctioned Lady Mountbatten?s tiara, worn by Edwina when her husband was supervising the transfer of power in India, in December last year for ?149,650.
		Lady Mountbatten died in 1960, aged 58, and was buried at sea.
		Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA in August 1979.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041207/asp/nation/story_4096823.asp (809 words)

	Royal Genealogies Part 5
		Mountbatten served as British viceroy of India from March to August 1947, and governor-general of the new dominion of India from August 1947 to June 1948.
		Mountbatten was killed when a bomb, planted by terrorists of the Irish Republican Army blew up his fishing boat in Donegal Bay, near his home.
		of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Elizabeth Albertin of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
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	ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre \| The Archive \| Lord Mountbatten: the Last Viceroy
		Series based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's life during his years as Viceroy of India--the final years of the British Raj.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/archive/81/81.html (373 words)

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