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MOUNTBATTEN Louis Of Burma 1900 - 1979

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• Birth	25 Jun 1900	Windsor Castle, Bershire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Aug 1979	Donegal Bay, County Sligo, Ireland
  Notes	Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten was one of Britain's great war heroes. A great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he entered the Royal Navy in 1913. (At that time his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg--later 1st marquess of Milford-Haven;1854-1921--was first sea lord; after the outbreak of World War I, however, he was forced to resign because of his German birth, and he later changed the family name to Mountbatten.) While chief of British combined operations (1942-43) in World War II, Mountbatten directed the invasion of Madagascar and commando raids on Norway and France. As supreme Allied commander for Southeast Asia (1943-46), he was responsiblefor the recapture of Burma from Japan. The last viceroy of India, hesupervised the creation of the states of India and Pakistan in 1947. He was created Lord Mountbatten of Burma that same year. Subsequently, he was first sea lord (1955-59). Mountbatten retired in 1965, although he remained a confidant of Queen Elizabeth II, whose husband, Prince Philip, was his nephew. He died when a bomb demolished his fishing boat in waters off the northwest coast of Ireland. A member of the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army was convicted of the murder. In spite of his many achievements, the greatest legacy of Lord Mountbatten is negative. He should have settled the Kashmir issue prior to the withdrawal of the British from India. Because of leaving the Kashmir issue unresolved, three majors have been fought, millions have died, and there are constant threats of a new war, this one nuclear, between India and Pakistan.
  Person ID	I1690	Royal Family of Europe
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2005

  
  

  Father	OF BATTENBERG Louis Mountbatten,   b. 24 May 1854, Battenberg, Germany ,   d. 11 Sep 1921
  Mother	OF HESSE Victoria Alberta Princess,   b. 5 Apr 1863, Hesse, Germany ,   d. 24 Sep 1950
  Married	30 Apr 1884
  Family ID	F1566	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Ashley Edwina Cynthia Annette,   b. 1901, London, England
  Married	18 July 1922	St. Margaret's, Westminster, London, England
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2005
  Family ID	F1844	Group Sheet

  
  

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