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Omdurman, Ladysmith and Mafeking

'Victoria has reigned longer than any other monarch and celebrations are afoot.'

Sep 23 - 1897 - Victoria becomes longest reiginig British monarch

Joseph Chamberlain - Conservative

Queen's Grandson = German Emperor (Kaiser Bill)

1902 - Arthur Balfour succeeds Uncle as PM

June 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo

1898 - Gladstone died (He tried to achieve Home Rule for Ireland)

Queen Victoria 'adored Disraeli'

1894 - Glastone resigns, succeded by Lord Rosebery (Liberal?)

Joseph Chamberlain - Liberal Unionist Leader?

Sep 2 1898 - Battle of Omdurman, outside Khartoum (Churchill was present at the battle)

'Herbert Kitchener'

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02536/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=5 -

William Ewart Gladstone - George Frederic Watts (oil on panel, 1859)

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02537/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=7 -

William Ewart Gladstone - Carlo Pellegrini (watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 6 February 1869)

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02538/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=14 - William Ewart Gladstone - Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
(oil on canvas, 1879)