Winston Churchill was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1900 and sat in parliament with the Conservatives. After his first electoral defeat in the spring 1899, he bounced back as a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, which had broken out in South Africa on 12 October 1898. Taken prisoner, he managed to escape and then re-enlisted as an officer in the British army. He participated in the liberation of Pretoria and his former friends of detention and gained a good reputation thanks to his feats of arms which enabled him to return to England in June 1990 where he was welcomed as a he...

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