Mountbatten

(mo̵unt bat'n)

Mountbatten, Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900-79; Brit. admiral

Origin: orig. transl. of Ger Battenberg

See Mountbatten in American Heritage Dictionary 4

British naval officer and colonial administrator who was supreme Allied commander in southeast Asia (1943-1946) and the last viceroy and governor-general of India (1947). He was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army.
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