What Are Winston Churchill's Major Accomplishments

There is no doubt that with all of Winston Churchill’s many accomplishments (as I will mention later) he was a pretty amazing person, but as you might not know it didn’t always necessarily start out that way. For example when he was little he was often lonely and felt that he was often ignored by his parents. Lady Randolph Churchill (Jennie Churchill) and Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill, (Winston’s parents) had a very busy lifestyle, his father was very active in his job as a politician/ statesman, and his mother had an extravagant social life and often went to parties. Later Winston stated that he loved his parents but it sometimes felt that they were “Loved from a difference”. This left Churchill with his brother John (or Jack as he …show more content…
“At this school I was allowed to learn things that actually interested me”, he once stated. Although his interest in reading and school grew he still did poorly in his subjects. He was more practical with his thoughts, he refused to learn anything unless he thought it was necessary or useful, and repeatedly ignored school rules One time he actually made a bomb about the size of a soccer ball, he put it in a well down by the village but it didn’t work so he climbed down the well to find out the problem, the next thing you know there is a Harrow village housewife complaining a boy coming flying out of the well. To many people’s shock Winston was not expelled and graduated as a decent man. Finally since Winston’s academics weren’t bright enough to get into Cambridge or Oxford he went to England’s West Point, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and finally he did very well at this school. Then after everything, in December of 1894 he graduated from Sandhurst with honors, and went on to join the cavalry which cost him another seven months of long hard