![]() ![]() As a young man he was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery fighting alongside the Malakand Field Force on the North-West Frontier, and subsequently he took part in the last significant cavalry charge in British history at the Battle of Omdurman in central Sudan. Lack of courage was never Churchill’s problem. ![]() “If that is not courage,” Lord Mountbatten, the First Sea Lord, said later, “I do not know what is.” He had always found the depiction of the mouse too indistinct, so he retrieved his paint brushes and set about “improving” on the work of Rubens by making the hazy rodent clearer. In April 1955, on the final weekend before he left office for the last time, Winston Churchill had the vast canvas of Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Lion and the Mouse” taken down from the Great Hall at the prime ministerial retreat of Chequers. CHURCHILL Walking With Destiny By Andrew Roberts Illustrated. ![]()
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