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. Eamon de Valera 1882-1975 Irish Statesman Leader of the Sinn Fein party and President of the Irish Parliament while imprisoned in England (1918-9).
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.
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.
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).
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.
www link : 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.
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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