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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, John Adam. Excerpt: Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS (ne Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 - 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India (1947-48), from which the modern Republic of India would emerge in 1950. From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier. In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who planted a bomb in his fishing boat, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the decline of the British Empire in the mid to late 20th century. Lord Mountbatten was bor...
