RT. HON. SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL ROUND TABLE OF NEBRASKA

RT. HON. SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL

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The Federalist Papers

Number 15 through Number 33

Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet

Act 5

Randolph Churchill’s Winston S. Churchill – Young Statesmen 1901-1914

Chapter Britain’s ‘Naval Defense’

William Manchester’s The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Visions of Glory 1874-1932

Pages that pertain to Chapter ‘Naval Defense’ 437-444

Finest Hour ‘Journal of the Churchill Centre’ Spring 2010

Pages 41-62

William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs
Chapter XVIII ‘Capture of Atlanta—August And September, 1864’ through

Chapter XX ‘The March To The Sea—From Atlanta To Savannah—November And December, 1864’

Then, for the first time, the supreme ships of the Navy, on which our life depended, were fed by oil and could only be fed by oil. The decision to drive the smaller craft by oil followed naturally upon this. The camel once swallowed, the gnats went down easily enough.

Photograph of the Queen Elizabeth launched in 1913

Excerpt from Randolph S. Churchill’s Winston S. Churchill Young Statesmen 1901-1914 (Pages 593-594, 1967)

The First Lord and the Admiralty had already decided to build a new, fast squadron of battleships, which would outclass everything of their weight at sea in fire-power, speed and armour. This decision involved the use of oil instead of coal and not only for this fast battle squadron of the Queen Elizabeth type but also for other ships as well. Coal was to be had in abundance; oil had to be brought from great distances overseas and ample stores must be kept at home if communications should be ruptured through some alien commerce raider. In The World Crises Churchill explained the cardinal importance of the decision:

The three programmes of 1912, 1913 and 1914 comprised the greatest additions in power and cost ever made to the Royal Navy. With the lementable exception of the battleships of 1913—and these were afterwards corrected—they did not contain a coal-burning ship. Submarines, destroyers, light cruisers, fast battleships—all were based irrevocably on oil. The fateful plunge was taken when it was decided to create the Fast Division. Then, for the first time, the supreme ships of the Navy, on which our life depended, were fed by oil and could only be fed by oil. The decision to drive the smaller craft by oil followed naturally upon this. The camel once swallowed, the gnats went down easily enough.

Charging the public a handsome commission on the job

Winston Churchill in 1904

Quotation from Winston Churchill made at Birmingham Town Hall on November 11, 1903.

The quotation is referenced by Michael McMenamin in an article titled ‘On Liberty: Churchill’s “Consistency in Politics”’ from Finest Hour ‘Journal of the Churchill Centre’ Spring 2010 (Page 54)

You may, by the arbitrary and sterile act of Government—for, remember, Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away—you may put money in the pocket of one set of Englishmen, but it will be money taken from the pockets of another set of Englishmen, and the greater part will be spilled on the way. Every vote given for protection is a vote to give governments the right of robbing Peter to pay Paul, and charging the public a handsome commission on the job.

For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the

people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their

rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least

suspicion.

 –Alexander Hamilton, Number 25 of the Federalist Papers

“I know Kilpatrick is a hell of a damn fool but that is just the type of man I want for this expedition” –General Sherman

Photograph of General Judson Kilpatrick

Excerpt from John C. Fredriksen’s

American Military Leaders: from colonial times to the present, Volume 2 (Pages 403, 1999)

After this fiasco, Kilpatrick transferred to the army of Gen. William T. Sherman to lead the only mounted force accompanying his march to the sea. “I know Kilpatrick is a Hell of a damn fool,” Sherman confided, “but I want just that sort of man to command my cavalry on this expedition.” Kilpatrick’s division fought with distinction under Gen. James H. Wilson in several skirmishes, and he was severely wounded at Resaca. Unable to ride for several months, he nevertheless accompanied his men in an ambulance wagon as they rode and burned their way across Georgia. On August 22, 1864, Kilpatrick’s men distinguished themselves by raiding Jonesboro on the outskirts of Atlanta, tearing up railroad lines, and returning with several hundred prisoners. He enthusiastically embraced Sherman’s concept of total war and torched numerous towns in his path. This earned him the undying enmity of many Southerners, but Kilpatrick relished his role as a destroyer. By March 1865, he had recovered sufficiently enough to command troops from the saddle, and was prominent in the capture of Fayetteville, North Carolina. By the war’s end, Kilpatrick had risen to major general of volunteers and was acknowledged as one of the bravest cavalry leaders in the Union Army. However, his talents for wasting the lives of men and horses gained him a wartime reputation as “Kill-cavalry.”

After the war, Kilpatrick resigned his commission to serve as U.S. minister to Chile from 1865-1868. After President Ulysses S. Grant recalled him, he endorsed Democrat Horace Greeley for the president in 1872 and ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Republican in 1880. The following year, President James Garfield reappointed him as minister to Chile, Kilpatrick died in Santiago on December 4, 1881.

See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.