Lord Kitchener

A hundred years after his death in the early days of World War I -- his transport ship to Russia was sunk by a German mine -- Lord Herbert Horatio Kitchener is seen as a representative of the fusty Colonel Blimp British officer. Writing shortly after Kitchener's death, G. K. Chesterton attempted to evaluate the military leader's career more as a succession of triumphs, from the defeat of the Mahdi at Omdurman to the defusing of a potential war with France at Fashoda to victories in South Africa's Boer War, to diplomatic and military leadership in India.