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- He successfully conducted the campaign against Japan that led to the recapture of Burma (Myanmar). As viceroy of India (March–August 1947) he administered the transfer of power from Britain to the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan at the partition of the subcontinent that took effect at midnight Aug. 14–15, 1947.
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Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.
Working with General William Slim, Mountbatten achieved the defeat of the Japanese offensive towards India and the reconquest of Burma. In September 1945, he received the Japanese surrender at...
Jun 22, 2024 · Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten was a British statesman, naval leader, and the last viceroy of India. He had an international royal-family background; his career involved extensive naval commands, the diplomatic negotiation of independence for India and Pakistan, and the highest military.
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May 20, 2015 · Earl Mountbatten of Burma: viceroy, statesman and member of the Royal Family's inner circle, who was murdered by the IRA.
Earl Mountbatten of Burma is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1947 for Rear Admiral Louis Mountbatten, who in 1946 had been created the first Viscount Mountbatten of Burma. He was later promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.
Apr 20, 2022 · Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma was the second cousin of Her Majesty The Queen, and his nephew was her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of...
Mountbatten became a Midshipman in 1916 and saw active service in World War I in the battlecruiser HMS Lion, the flagship of his personal hero - Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon. Sir David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936).
