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Hace 2 días · Brighton hotel bombing. On 12 October 1984 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government, including the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. Five people were killed, including the Conservative MP and Deputy Chief Whip Sir Anthony Berry; over thirty ...
Hace 2 días · During this period Mountbatten also served as chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year. In August 1979, Mountbatten was assassinated by a bomb planted aboard his fishing boat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Hace 4 días · The raid on a small coastal town was to give the British a respectable success. The attack led to a disaster that cost the lives of over 3000 men. The main man responsible, Lord Mountbatton, later invented an explanation as to why Dieppe was not his fault, but a necessary sacrifice.
Hace 3 días · For the remainder of the decade, violence ebbed and flowed, cease-fires lingered and lapsed, and tit-for-tat bombings and assassinations continued, including the high-profile killing at sea in August 1979 of Lord Mountbatten, a relative of both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Hace 3 días · Among the mourners were Lord Louis Mountbatten – representing the British King and Queen -, the Marchioness of Milford Haven – representing the British Queen Mary. Wreaths were sent by the Duchess of Kent, other British royals, the Emperor, Adolf Hitler and General Hermann Göring.
Hace 4 días · Lord Mountbatten was a close relative of the British royal family, an officer in the British Royal Navy, and later in life the British Viceroy of India and its first Governor-General. He was the ...
Hace 5 días · Lord Mountbatten was assassinated aged 79 by the IRA, during a holiday at his summer home in August 1979. A bomb was planted on his boat in Mullaghmore, Ireland, Mountbatten later went out on the...
