Horatio Herbert Kitchener was born in Listowel June 24, 1850, an expert in military organization (started the use of concentration camps in the Boer War, in which died about twenty-six thousand women and children) in period in which it was for his country, the official colony and commander of the Egyptian army, he cultivated his passion for botany building a botanical garden on the island that now bears his name, but also known as "the 'Island of trees. "
A tropical paradise that stretches for approximately seven acres in which Kitchener had to bring plants from Asia and the rest of Africa .
L 'Isle of the trees is located west of the island was donated to Egypt from the Elephantine and Kitchener.
Appointed Minister of War, the United Kingdom in 1914, Kitchener died June 5, 1916 the Orkney Islands in the sea on the cruiser Hampshire sunk by a German submarine that had intercepted. Kitchener was on his way by Tsar Nicholas II, to advise military reorganization.
Horatio Herbert Kitchener
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