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Trenchard, Hugh, 1st Viscount Trenchard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Trenchard, Hugh, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956). Soldier and airman. ‘Boom’ Trenchard began his service career as an infantryman. By 1912, when he learned to fly, he was a major whose career appeared...
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Hugh Montague Trenchard Trenchard, 1st Viscount
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hugh Montague Trenchard Trenchard, 1st Viscount 1873-1956, British air marshal. He entered...Royal Flying Corps. As chief of air staff (1918, 1919-29), Trenchard shaped the offensive air strategy (to the neglect of air defense...
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Royal Air Force
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...than 50 aircraft in 1922 for home defence. Defended by Lord Trenchard , it struggled for its independent existence against the army...between offence and defence—bombers and fighters. Trenchard was a strong believer in the smallest possible fighter force...
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Bomber Aircraft
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...Expeditionary Force, met and was strongly influenced by Britain's Maj. Gen. Hugh Trenchard, one of the foremost prophets of strategic airpower. Trenchard's views on the use of large numbers of heavy bombers against targets deep inside enemy...
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Mitchell, Billy (William)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...zone. From this experience and his discussions with Sir Hugh Trenchard, head of the Royal Flying Corps, Mitchell became a champion...strident in interviews, articles, and books. Much like Trenchard and the Italian airpower theorist Giulio Douhet , Mitchell...
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Zenger Trial
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...essays by the leading English libertarian philosophers of the period, including Cato's Letters , essays written by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon that would heavily influence the ideology of the American Revolution a generation later. After several...
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Revolution and Constitution, Era of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...thinkers themselves— John Locke in the seventeenth century and more recently political journalists such as John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. In the end, colonials would fight before conceding that Parliament's sovereignty was absolute, and...
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Jean Fouquet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the paintings and miniatures of Fouquet is Paul R. Wescher, Jean Fouquet and His Times (1945; trans. 1947). See also Trenchard Cox, Jehan Foucquet, Native of Tours (1931), and Klaus G. Perls, Jean Fouquet (1939; trans. 1940). □
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Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...winnings he started his first aviation business, a flying school. Among his important, well-placed students was Major Hugh Trenchard, later "father of the Royal Air Force" (RAF). However, the lack of a good aircraft led Sopwith to build his own. He...
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Raymond, John T.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...stock companies for some years he joined Laura Keene's company in 1861, taking over from Joseph Jefferson the part of Asa Trenchard in Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin , in which he was also seen in London in 1867. Among his other parts were Tony Lumpkin...
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