February, 2008 from the Chartwell Bulletin, a publication of the Churchill Centre and Churchill Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms

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A fencing exhibition was a highlight of the birthday celebration held at the Windsor Court Hotel by the Churchill Society of New Orleans. Churchill was a champion fencer at school, one of his eaerly accomplishments that is now almost forgotten.

Michael McMenamin, Finest Hour contributor and author, spoke on the Churchill-Bourke Cockran relationship based on his and Curt Zoller’s book, Becoming Winston Churchill (reviewed FH 136).

The Society also awarded a first prize of $300 to the winner of its second annual essay contest, Madeline Osbrink, a 15 year old sophomore at Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans – published herewith…

Churchill Quote:

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Churchill: A Timeline

1874 Birth occurs at Blenheim Palace, Nov. 30

1888 Pupil at Harrow public school

1895 Commissioned soldier in Fourth Hussars

1899 War correspondent in South Africa; captured and escapes

1900 Elected Minister of Parliament for Oldham

1908 Marries Clementine Hozier at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.

1910 Home Secretary

1911 First Lord of the Admiralty

1915 On Western Front - World War I

1921 Colonial Secretary

1922 Buys Chartwell

1924 Chancellor of the Exchequer

1939 Returns as First Lord of the Admiralty, World War II declared

1940 Prime Minister

1945 Defeated by Labour in General Election.

1951 Returns as Prime Minister

1955 Resigns as Prime Minister after two strokes

1965 Dies Jan. 24 in London. Hundreds of thousands hold vigil.

1977 Wife, Clementine Churchill, dies. Both buried together at Bladon.

Books By Churchill

My Early Life – An autobiography covering the first twenty-five years of Churchill’s life
The River War – Lord Kitchner’s reconquest of the Sudan in 1898. Published in 1899; (2 vols.) Also published in a one volume abridged edition.
A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Marlborough – a biography of his ancestor, John Churchill, 1^st Duke of Marlborough, Published in four, six, and two volume editions.
The World Crisis – a six-volume history of the First World War.
The Second World War – six volumes, sometimes reprinted as twelve volumes
Painting as a Pastime – an essay on the joys of painting