How Did Winston Churchill: The Man Who Changed His Party?

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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” -Winston Churchill. During World War 2, a man arose from the people; he for sure wasn’t all that smart in school but, he had a great mind for politics. Winston Churchill often changed his party, acquired a lengthy list of notable achievements, and his formative years really helped to shape him into the man he was while being Prime Minister. Winston Churchill was often accused of party hopping or “ratting”. Winston Churchill has been in the government for most of his life and interestingly he kept changing his political party. When he first starts out in the British Government he is a Conservative; he then realized his views were more aligned with the Liberals in the Government. After all this, he went back to the Conservative Party. “Party rat? Churchill has long been criticized for switching political …show more content…

“When he was 16 he entered Sandhurst, a historic British Military College. There he excelled in studies of tactics and fortifications and graduated 26th in a Class of 130(Barber 6).” Even so it did take him a couple of tries to graduate. “In March 1894 Churchill became a Sub-lieutenant in the 4th (Queen’s Own) Hussars, a distinguished cavalry regiment.” “On leave in 1895, he saw his first military action in Cuba as a reporter for London's Daily Graphic. He served in India and in 1898 fought at Omdurman in Sudan under Kitchener. Having resigned his commission, he was sent (1899) to cover the South African War by the Morning Post, and his accounts of his capture and imprisonment by the Boers and his escape raised him to the forefront of English journalists.(Ebsco "Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British Statesman, Soldier, And Author."). Since all of this happened from his teens to early and mid 20s this may have helped shape him into the politician and wordsmith he

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