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- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a relative of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). McMahon placed a bomb on Mountbatten's boat while it was harboured overnight in Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland. It was detonated several hours later, after Mountbatten and his family and crew had boarded it and taken it offshore. Mountbatten was found alive by fishermen who rushed to the site of the explosion, but died before reaching shore. Also killed were Mountbatten's young grandson Nicholas Knatchbull, and Paul Maxwell, a boy from Enniskillen serving as crew. The four others aboard – Mountbatten's daughter Patricia; her husband John Knatchbull; their son Timothy; and John Knatchbull's mother Doreen – were all seriously injured. Doreen Knatchbull died the following day. The assassination took place during The Troubles, a conflict between republicans and unionists in Northern Ireland following the Partition of Ireland. The IRA claimed responsibility three days after the bombing, describing the attack as "a discriminate act to bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country." Mountbatten was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, second cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, and uncle to her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. As Chief of the Defence Staff, Mountbatten served as head of the British Armed Forces from 1959 to 1965, having previously headed the Royal Navy as the First Sea Lord. Sinn Féin vice-president Gerry Adams said that Mountbatten was a military target in a war situation. Two hours before the explosion, McMahon had been arrested by the Garda Síochána (Irish police) on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle. Paint from Mountbatten's boat, and traces of nitroglycerine, were found on his clothes, and on 23 November 1979 he was convicted of the killings in the Republic of Ireland. His sentence was life imprisonment. The assassination marked an escalation of the conflict, with the IRA committing their deadliest attack on the British Army (the Warrenpoint ambush) on the same day as the assassination. Thatcher changed Britain's approach by treating IRA prisoners as criminals rather than prisoners of war and was herself the target of an assassination attempt five years later. McMahon was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, as part of the Northern Ireland peace process which brought an end to the Troubles. (en)
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- Earl Mountbatten, Nicholas Knatchbull, Paul Maxwell and Doreen Knatchbull (en)
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- Patricia Knatchbull, John Knatchbull, Timothy Knatchbull (en)
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- Mullaghmore Peninsula, Ireland (en)
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- Assassination of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (en)
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- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a relative of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). The assassination took place during The Troubles, a conflict between republicans and unionists in Northern Ireland following the Partition of Ireland. The IRA claimed responsibility three days after the bombing, describing the attack as "a discriminate act to bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country." (en)
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