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Kitchener, H(oratio) H(erbert)

受封为基奇纳伯爵(Earl Kitchener (of Khartoum and of Broome))

英国陆军元帅、皇家行政长官。原本担任皇家工兵军官,後在中东和苏丹任职,1892年被指派担任埃及陆军总司令。1898年在恩图曼战役中,击溃马赫迪派运动的暴动分子;并强迫法国在法绍达事件让步。1899年加入南非战争担任参谋长,一年後成为总司令。战争最後的十八个月期间,他为了对抗游击队,不惜采取一切手段,诸如焚烧布尔人的农庄及赶布尔人的妇孺进集中营。後来被派至印度,重新整编军队。和印度总督寇松间的失和导致後者於1905年辞职。1911年回到喀土木担任埃及和苏丹的总督。第一次世界大战时出任战时国务大臣,他组织军队,其规模在英国史上是前所未有的,并使之成为英国获胜的象徵。基奇纳在前往俄国途中,遭德国水雷击没,惨遭溺毙。

1850~1916年

Kitchener, H(oratio) H(erbert)

British field marshal and imperial administrator. Trained as a military engineer, Kitchener served in posts in the Middle East and Sudan before being appointed commander in chief of the Egyptian army in 1892. In 1898 he crushed the rebellious Mahdist movement in the Battle of Omdurman and forced concessions from France in the Fashoda Incident. In 1899 he entered the South African War as chief of staff, becoming commander in chief a year later. In the last 18 months of the war, he resorted to brutal methods, burning Boer farms and herding Boer women and children into concentration camps. He was later sent to India to reorganize the army there. A clash with Lord Curzon led to the latter's resignation in 1905. In 1911 he returned to Khartoum as proconsul of Egypt and the Sudan. As secretary of state for war during World War I, he organized armies on a scale unprecedented in British history and became a symbol of the national will to victory. He died on a mission to Russia when his ship was sunk by a German mine.