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 | | From 1813 to 1815, the Rothschild family was instrumental in the financing of the British war effort, ahndling the shipment of bullion to the Duke of Wellington's army in Portugal and Spain, as well as arranging the payment of British financial subsidies to their Continental allies. |
 | | In 1917 Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild was the addressee of the Balfour Declaration, ehich committed the British government to the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. |
 | | Simon de Rothschild, the son of Robert de Rothschild, heads the Canadian Northern Railway, and its subsiduaries, as well as a number of mining and industrial operations.Another descendant of James, Edmond de Rothschild (1926-1997) founded the LCF Rothschild Group, based in Geneva, which today extends to 15 countries across he world. |
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