<span>Sir John Major,
KG, CH is a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He
served as Foreign Secretary and then Chancellor of the Exchequer in the
Thatcher Government from 1989 to 1990, and was the Member of Parliament
for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001. He is the oldest living former Prime
Minister.
The battle prevented the Union from capturing the Florida capital and made Tallahassee the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi River not to be captured by Union forces during the war.
America avenged its defeat in the Philippines with the invasion of the island of Leyte in October 1944. He was held responsible for the death march, a war crime, and was executed by firing squad on April 3, 1946.