You may want to recheck your dates on the life spans of Charles II and Bindon Blood's father. > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:30:34 -0700 > Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: Was Churchill influenced by Lloyd George > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > 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 - > > >
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