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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is a very well known man who had a lot of influence during WW1. Churchill took a major role in setting the foundation of the welfare state in Britain, he prepared the Royal Navy for world war I , and he helped settle the political boundaries in the middle east after the war. Winston S. Churchill was a very important man who lived from 1874 to 1965. English on his fathers side and American on his mother's, Winston embraced both of their qualities and inquired them into his political beliefs. Winston, being the descendant of the 1st Duke, came from richness, power, and achievement. Which would lead to his future success and his world wide popularity. Winston Churchill went through a few schools in his life and he eventually stumbled into journalism. On the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, he went out on to the battle fields as a mere war correspondent for the London Morning Post, but within only months of his arrival he was captured when accused of acting more like a soldier than a journalist, by the Boer officer, Louis Botha. Winston was then taken to a prison camp in Pretoria, where he made a dramatic escape and eventually traveled alon