Kitchener's Mobilization and War Strategy

Horatio Herbert Kitchener

British Army officer and colonial administrator. Eventually promoted to Field Marshal, he played key roles in the reconquest of Sudan, the Second Boer War, and the reform of the Indian Army. He achieved fame after defeating the Mahdist army at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, establishing Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan. During World War I, as Secretary of State for War, he foresaw a long war and promoted the creation of a massive volunteer army as well as the expansion of munitions production. He is also the iconic figure on the famous recruitment poster "Kitchener Wants You". In 1916, en route to discussions with Russia, he died when his ship, HMS Hampshire, struck a German naval mine off the Orkney Islands and sank.

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Year	Horatio Herbert Kitchener
1850	Birth of Horatio Herbert Kitchener (Period: June 24, 1850, Location: Near Listowel, Ireland (Ballylongford, County Kerry))
1870	Service with the French Army Ambulance Corps (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1870–1871, Location: France)
1871	Enlistment in the Royal Engineers (Age: 20 years old, Period: January 1871, Location: UK)
1874	Palestine Survey Project (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1874–1878, Location: Palestine)
1881	Mahdist War (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1881–1899, Location: Sudan and Egypt)
1883	Service with the Egyptian Army (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1883–1884, Location: Egypt)
1884	Gordon Relief Expedition (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1884–1885, Location: Khartoum, Sudan)
1886	Governor-General of Eastern Sudan (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Age: 35 years old, Period: 1886–1888, Location: Eastern Sudan)
1892	Sirdar of the Egyptian Army (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1892, Location: Cairo, Egypt)
1898	Fashoda Incident (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1898, Location: Fashoda, Southern Sudan (present-day Kodok)) Battle of Omdurman (Age: 48 years old, Period: September 2, 1898, Location: Omdurman, Sudan)
1899	Governor-General of Sudan (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1899–1900, Location: Khartoum, Sudan) Chief of Staff in South Africa (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1899–1900, Location: South Africa)
1900	Scorched Earth Policy in the Second Boer War (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1900–1902, Location: South Africa)
1902	Commander-in-Chief, India (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Age: 51 years old, Period: 1902–1909, Location: British India)
1904	Controversy with Curzon over Command of the Indian Army (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1904–1905, Location: Calcutta and Simla, India)
1909	Promotion to Field Marshal (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1909, Location: UK)
1911	Consul-General in Egypt (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Age: 60 years old, Period: 1911–1914, Location: Cairo, Egypt)
1914	Recruitment of Kitchener's Army (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1914–1915, Location: Entire UK) Expansion of Munitions Production (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1914–1916, Location: UK) Secretary of State for War (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Age: 64 years old, Period: August 5, 1914, Location: War Office, London, UK)
1915	World War I Shell Crisis (Age: 64 years old, Period: Spring–Summer 1915, Location: UK and Western Front) Political Conflict over the Dardanelles Campaign (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1915–1916, Location: Dardanelles, Gallipoli, and London)
1916	Planned Mission to Russia (Age: 65 years old, Period: June 1916, Location: Route to Petrograd, Russia) Death of Horatio Herbert Kitchener (Age: 65 years old, Period: June 5, 1916) Sinking of HMS Hampshire (Age: 65 years old, Period: June 5, 1916, Location: West Coast of Orkney, Scotland)
Unknown	Marriage (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, None, Period: Never Married, Location: N/A)

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French Politics	Raymond Poincaré Georges Clemenceau René Viviani Alexandre Millerand Aristide Briand Joseph Caillaux
British Politics	Herbert Henry Asquith David Lloyd George Horatio Herbert Kitchener Andrew Bonar Law Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Andrew Bonar Law
Poet and Writer	Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon Rupert Brooke Isaac Rosenberg Robert Graves Henri Barbusse Romain Rolland
Science and Medicine	Marie Curie Ernest Rutherford Paul Langevin Charles de Lorme Alexis Carrel

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