Valera refused to accept the Irish independence treaty in 1921. He became Prime Minister of the Irish Free State, 1937-48, and again - following full independence - in 1951-4 and 1957-9. He was President of the Irish Republic 1959-73.

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Queen Victoria
1819-1901
Queen of England




She succeeded her uncle, William IV in 1837; married in 1840 Prince Albert of Saxe-Gotha; and became Empress of India in 1876.

During her reign Great Britain reached the greatest extent of her world empire. Queen Victoria attached great significance to her right to be consulted about foreign affairs and she became a symbol of national and imperial unity.

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Duke of Wellington
1769-1852
British Statesman


Arthur Wellington gained an early military reputation in India (1808-14). In 1815, with the Prussian Marshal von Bluecher, he defeated Napoleon I in the Battle at Waterloo.

A member of various Conservative Cabinets he became Prime Minister 1828-30 and opposition leader after the passiong of the Reform Act (1832).

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Woodrow Wilson
1856-1924
US President




An efficient chief executive whose two terms in office (1913-21) covered WW I and the Paris Peace Conference.

For a time Wilson won fame as the world's greatest leader after the war, but his advocacy of the League of Nations, which the US Senate repudiated, and illness diminished his stature toward the end.

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Wu San-Kuei
1612-78
Chinese General



Ming general who appealed to the Manchus for aid when Peking was attacked by rebels.

Once in Peking the Manchus set up their own Ch'ing dynasty. Wu San-Kuei refused appeals to aid a restoration of the Ming emperors, serving first the Manchus instead, and then attempting to set up his own Chou dynasty, invading central China in 1674. He died of dysentry before the rebellion was crushed.

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Emiliano Zapata
1879-1919
Mexican Revolutionary



Zapata supported Madero in 1911to overthrow the dicatator Diaz. When he was forbidden to redistribute land to the peasants, he renewed the revolution under the slogan 'Land and Liberty".

He fought against the dicatator Huerta in 1913; and the with Pancho Villa against the government of Carranza. He was ambushed and assassinated.

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