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General John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, KG, PC (9 October 1756 – 24 September 1835) was a British peer and soldier. He was the eldest son of William Pitt the Elder and an elder brother of William Pitt the Younger.[1] He was commissioned into the 47th Regiment of Foot in 1774.[1] Later he served in various capacities, including First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Privy Seal and Lord President ...
William Pitt was born in Westminster in 1708 into a wealthy family. He was the grandson of Thomas ‘Diamond’ Pitt, who had made a fortune selling a diamond he had acquired whilst Governor of Madras in India. The fortune had bought both land and parliamentary seats. The young William Pitt was educated at Eton, which he disliked, and then ...
General John Pitt, 2. Earl of Chatham , KG , PC (9. Oktober 1756 - 24. September 1835) war ein Britischer Soldat und Politiker. Er verbrachte eine längere Zeit im Kabinett, ist aber am besten dafür bekannt, die katastrophale Walcheren-Kampagne von 1809 zu befehligen.
Correspondence (originals and copies), reports, memoranda, and plans, mainly from the papers of John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, as Master-General of the Ordnance, concerned with the proposed defences of various parts of England, particularly the South Coast, against the threatened invasion by Napoleon, the defences of Quebec, Trinidad and Ireland, projects for attacking the Spanish colonies in ...
The Death of the Earl of Chatham is the title of a 1781 oil-on-canvas painting by Boston -born American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the collapse of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham on 7 April 1778, during a debate in the House of Lords on the American War of Independence.
3. Apr. 2017 · John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham is one of the most enigmatic and overlooked figures of early nineteenth century British history. The elder brother of Pitt the Younger, he has long been consigned to history as ‘the late Lord Chatham’, the lazy commander-in-chief of the 1809 Walcheren expedition, whose inactivity and incompetence turned what should have been an easy victory into a disaster.
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