If I am not mistaken Binden Blood was the son of the Thomas Blood who stole the crown Jewels and was suspiciously pardoned by Charles II. He was mentioned on numerous occasions in Churchill's Marlborough books for his exploits during the war of the Spanish succession.
Admiral Cloudesly Shovel was also a much mentioned figure in the same books, he survived a shipwreck off the Scilly Isles and was washed ashore still alive. A local lady found him and rather than save him, she stole his emerald ring and left him to die. Incidentally the same books also mention Captain Blackadder, for those that remember the famous British series starring Rowan Atkinson I used the 2 names to create the pen name for my book Churchill's Secret Skill's written by Binden Shovel On Jul 18, 6:48 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Wow! some body else has the first name Binden... (Binden Blood) anybody know > who that was ? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Binden Shovel" <[email protected]> > To: "ChurchillChat" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:04:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ChurchillChat] Was Churchill influenced by Lloyd George > > I am currently working my way through The World Crisis and was really > taken aback by a page in which Churchill describes the way Lloyd > George managed the latter part of WW1. > > Having researched Churchill for my book Churchill's Secret Skills I > have formed an opinion about how Churchill managed the events of WW2, > the remarkable thing that struck me about Churchill's description of > Lloyd George was that you could have quite easily replaced Lloyd > George for Winston Churchill and WW1 for WW2. > > My book aims to apply Churchill's talents to modern business, and for > those among you that are in business, like me, it is quite common to > learn techniques and talents from those people you work for or with > that might do things different or better than you do yourself. > > Churchill worked closely with Lloyd George at the end of WW1 and it > might be possible that he learned a great deal from him. > > I always did wonder were Churchill learned the particular skills that > proved so vital in Britain’s hour of need. The more I read The World > Crisis the more I can see were his different skills emanate from.- Hide > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
