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As the grandson of a duke, it was natural that Winston Churchill would join a suitably prestigious cavalry regiment within the British Army. Accordingly, he was commissioned a subaltern in the aristocratic Fourth Hussars in 1894, aged 19. Gentlemen’s gambling debts were always settled promptly, but for tradesmen it was a different matter. How long…
1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1575 – During the Sengoku period in Japan, the combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino. 1797 – French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands previously a Venetian possession….
