Winston Churchill's Role During The Boer War

Hitler had carried out his conquest and now was willing to spill English blood in order to receive the island nation. Postliminary to the French defeat, Europe consisted solely of one allied power, a couple neutral powers, and an axis power. It seemed that while other countries were becoming powerless, the German Empire was acquiring that weakness and recreating it into strength. Churchill, newly appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, sensed the impending doom that his nation was sure to face, as its allies once had. He felt threatened as his country’s sovereignty would soon be taken hostage by the Nazis and how soon his country would become a downpour of unfortunate souls due to policies he knew would be enacted if the county were to fall

Even before the climactic World War II, Churchill’s mental war starts with the Indian Independence movement. Churchill was brusque about his opinion on the movement, knowingly showing his opposition to the public. “To Churchill, all Indians were the pedestal for a throne. He would have died to keep England free, but was against those who wanted India free.(Tondon, n.d.)” With this ornery still in the mind of the public and government officials, Churchill’s 1940 election was met with opposition. In Churchill and Orwell, “Peter Eckersley, a Tory MP, predicted that “Winston won’t last five months.”(Ricks, pg. 91)” The general public were critical of such a disposition leading the United Kingdom during a time struggle. Even with the public’s pessimistic prospect of him, Churchill’s resilience will become a favorable trait to exhibit in this psychological war.

Justification of the Canadian Participation in the Boer War The storm of war never comes alone, as it bring along extreme tragedy. “In 1899, the whole country was electrified when heard about the Imperial request from Britain. ”[1] The Britain requested Canadians for help to defeat Boers in South Africa.

Churchill made every effort to offer optimism to the people of Britain and the world. He truly wanted to protect the citizens of his homeland from harm and the tragedy that loomed around them. He endured in times of despair. It is tragic that this war has begun and caused such destruction and chaos. Britain alone has suffered from the loss of thousands of homes and lives. I believe in freedom for all, and I also believe in supporting a man. His great courage and strength have led his country to this

Churchill served in various governmental posts between 1906 and 1910. In 1910 to 1911 (as Home Secretary) he employed his troops to fight against strikers in South Wales. In 1911, Churchill was transferred to the office of the First Lord of Admiralty, a post he held into the First World War. He gave direction to several reform efforts, including development of aviation in the navy. He supported construction of new and larger warships, the development of tanks, and the switch from coal to oil energy in the royal navy. Abortive expeditions to Antwerp and Gallipoli and the failed action at the Dardanelles did great harm to Churchill’s reputation and career. In 1915 Churchill was demoted to minor office as the Chancellor of the Duchy

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Beyond question, the evacuation at Dunkirk was the culmination of a major military disaster for the British military, one of the worst it ever suffered in its history. Churchill also stated as much on June 4, 1940, when he told the House of Commons that the defeat in France had been a "colossal military disaster" (Source G). Only the fall of Singapore to the Japanese was a comparable to the military disaster Britain suffered in France in 1940, and Churchill was well-aware of this. Nevertheless, it did not affect his determination to continue the war and to do whatever was necessary to maintain the morale of the British military and civilian population. At Dunkirk, the army had left behind all its tanks, vehicles and heavy weapons, while the Royal Air Force (RAF) had suffered heavy losses in France and in its efforts to protect the evacuation beaches. British losses would have been even greater had bad weather not hampered the Germans or had Hitler unleashed the Panzers as his generals wanted. About the only victory Britain won was on the propaganda side, by playing up the efforts of the small boats coming to the rescue even though they played a relatively minor role and by affirming that the morale of the army and the public had not been broken.

Being a veteran of war, Churchill knew about war. With the fall of France and no sign of the United States joining in, Churchill knew that Hitler would attack Britain soon enough. However, Hitler was afraid of Churchill and Great Britain. When Hitler and the Luftwaffe were ready to attack and siege Britain, the country “was facing the first serious threat of invasion since 1805” and therefore it wasn’t difficult in the situation to “despair and to look for a way out of a war that seemed impossible to win” (BBC Churchill). In the early stages of the war, the fight against fascism and Germany wasn’t going as planned and Lord Halifax, the foreign secretary, urged Churchill to negotiate peace terms with Hitler. Churchill, though, was resolute and overruled Halifax. Churchill had an “uncanny ability to anticipate the course of events” in the war and used this to his advantage to come up with plans and to encourage allies (Vision of Victory). When most people were convinced there was no way out of this war and defeat is inevitable, Churchill thought differently. One claim against Churchill is that he wasn’t exceptional in wartime tactics and that anyone could have been prime minister at the time. However, most people don’t take into consideration Churchill’s determination. If there was another prime minister in England, Parliament might’ve given up hope on the war.

and left Britain alone in the time of war, and primed the British people for what was to come. "When we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous maneuver," (Churchill). Churchill gave his enemy lots of credit. They were, after all, very good at the art of war, deception,

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” This is what Winston Churchill said after the being promoted to Prime Minister in replace of Neville Chamberlain. Churchill was only in power for two months before the Nazi started bombing England. The bombings occurred because of the lack of assertiveness from previous leader, Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain ruled for the previous three years until Churchill to over eight months after the start of World War two. Both leaders made an impact on the outcome of the war, but both did not make a good impact.

Churchill got his conservative politics from being raised in the Victorian era Britain, where he learned to be ambitious, and have a strong sense of independence (Ben-Moshe 8). This unrelenting ambition Churchill obtained would earn him his reputation, and lead to his loss in the 1945 election. Churchill practiced conservative politics, because he lived in an era when Conservatives ruled parliament (Havighurst 63). At the turn of the century, however, conservative practices would soon become outdated. It was with the emergence of the Liberal Party, that public opinion

Winston Churchill had an incredible background, which had earned him the respect of the people and the influence as the second most powerful individual in the United Kingdom. Churchill enrolled into a Military college when he was of age, and participated in many conflicts surrounding the areas of Cuba, India and Sudan. In 1908, Churchill became a politician. During his time as a member of parliament, he began the movement to support the labor class of the British, introducing the ideas of minimum wage, insurance for the unemployed and most importantly the People’s Budget, which taxed the rich to support the social departments. These achievements within the military and in the parliament supported his ethos when regarding the people.

After Churchill's tenure in India, he ran for a seat in Parliament. He spoke well, but the opposition he faced was just too strong. He lost his first try at an electoral office. Churchill ran for political office many times after this initial failure. In 1901, he won a seat in the House of Commons. From 1908-1939, he held many political offices. Some include: First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, Secretary for War and Air, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. All of these positions pale when held in comparison to his service as Prime Minister. He held this position twice during his life: once during World War II from 1940-1945, and again from 1951-1955. (Bra*censored*, Internet)

Winston Churchill’s headstrong resiliency in the face of danger defined his career as a war leader. Former Prime Minister David Cameron states,” He was an incredible leader for our country, and indeed for the whole free world, at an impossibly difficult time.” (1). Five months before his inauguration, Churchill gave his speech “House of Many Mansions” wherein he urged the then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other world

The Boer War was a conflict that lasted from 1899 to 1902 in southern Africa between Great Britain and their allies, Transvaal (South African Republic) and Orange Free State, in what is now South Africa.