The Bold Life of Young Winston Churchill
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Winston Churchill is most famous internationally as the Prime Minister who saw Great Britain through the Second World War, but his illustrious life growing up as a brash, ambitious young man is less widely known.
Churchill was a man who knew his stars intended for him to do great things in the world. While Church believed this, he knew that others would take some convincing. In his 20s he participated in numerous colonial conflicts and wrote a number of books detailing his experiences.
But still the fame he chased eluded him until he traveled to South Africa in 1899 to cover the Anglo-Boer War (South African War) as a journalist.
In this short history documentary, I tell the tale of Winston Churchill's daring escape from a Boer prisoner of war (POW) camp in Pretoria, South Africa in the year 1899.
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A quick footnote - Churchill having left the prison camp without his 2 co-escapees became quite a contentious issue after the fact, even leading to a libel suit filed against Churchill in 1912 in which he was accused of deliberately leaving Haldane and Brockie behind. But Haldane in fact later point out in 1931 that a provision in the Army Act stated that any prisoner of war who did not seize an opportunity to escape could be punished. It's a tricky one, but my personal view is that Churchill saw a gap, took it, and can't really be blamed for having done so.
To his credit, Churchill did wait for approximately an hour and half in exposed conditions for his two 'pals', but eventually had to make a call to proceed. He couldn't realistically have been expected to climb back over the fence and into prison...
And, in addition to waiting all that time in the garden for the other two, Churchill got a message from a prisoner using the loos that the other two could not find a gap in the sentry's attention and had given up. Churchill actually escaped over the wall while the sentries were chatting and looking the other way. Incredibly high risk. (This is according to Churchill's account in My Early Life.)
"To go back was impossible. I could not hope to climb the wall unnoticed. *There was no helpful ledge on the outside.* " ( My Early Life)
A great Englishman.
Thanks for the video.
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Missing Churchill's attendance as journalist of the Spanish-USA war in 1898 in Cuba
Hi there! I discuss Churchill's posting to Cuba as 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars at 1:42. I know he visited Cuba a second time, but chose not to include all the details as the focus of this video was his time in Pretoria.
Did you receive any issues while uploading this from using clips from the “young Winston” movie? I want to use clips from that myself for my Churchill deep dive video on my history based RUclips channel
I didn't have any issues while uploading, but made sure to only use clips a few seconds at a time and only when I thought essential to illustrate my commentary. Any extended use of the footage I think would likely lead to a copyright claim (not a strike). Hope that helps!
Bro I live in Pretoria, even Elon Musk came from here, bruh💀💀
Check your dates - 1896 a referred to is not 1996 as in the video
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I think you all forget to mention he was a racist. Now I do understand why he hated the Indians and blacks. There is a background story to it.
As I understand it, Churchill was not a racist. He hoped for good relations with India and the fighting he did in South Africa was against the (white) Dutch, so evidently fighting people from one country did not affect his view of their whole race. Churchill's view was that war, when necessary, should be won decisively. However, having won it was wise to be magnanimous with the former enemy. He considered this a less popular view as most people either wanted to crush the enemy or be nice to them all through.
If a Boer had opened the door Churchill knocked on that night nobody would know his name today.... 15:06
He was probably racist, a product of his time. I remember that he opposed to give independence to India.