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Winston Churchill

Churchill volunteered to join Bindon Blood's Malakand Field Force

Jul, 1897
Present-day Malakand, Pakistan

Churchill volunteered to join Bindon Blood's Malakand Field Force in its campaign against Mohmand rebels in the Swat Valley of north-west India. Blood accepted him on condition that he was assigned as a journalist, the beginning of Churchill's writing career.


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