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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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Sothern, Edward Askew
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Taylor's Our American Cousin as Lord Dundreary, a part ever after associated with him. Joseph Jefferson , who played Asa Trenchard in the same production, describes in his autobiography how Sothern, who was at first dismayed by the few lines offered him...
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Jefferson, Joseph
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...company. Under her aegis he scored notable successes as Dr. Pangloss in The Heir‐at‐Law and as Asa Trenchard in Our American Cousin . Moving to the Winter Garden, he consolidated his reputation when he played Caleb Plummer in Dot...
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Our American Cousin
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Our American Cousin (1858). A comedy by Englishman Tom Taylor , it originally centered on a rather bumptious Yankee, Asa Trenchard, who arrives in England, where he rescues his virtually impoverished English relatives from the treacherous financial machinations...
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Raymond, John T.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...South before joining Laura Keene 's ensemble in 1861, calling attention to himself when he replaced Joseph Jefferson as Asa Trenchard in Our American Cousin . Raymond gained stardom in 1874 as the daydreaming Colonel Sellers in The Gilded Age , so stealing...
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Booth, Agnes
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Land, she acted at Maguire's Opera House, then as Mrs. H. A. Perry she made her Broadway debut in 1865 as Florence Trenchard in Our American Cousin . When she married Junius Brutus Booth Jr., in 1867, she took the name Mrs. J. B. Booth, later...
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