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Vor 5 Tagen · Pitt's neglect to build up a true party can be related to his health and morale as much as to his political views. When Pitt died the Ministry was in a weak state, facing an assertive albeit far from united, parliamentary opposition and with its foreign policy in ruins after Austerlitz.
Vor 4 Tagen · Pitt the Younger once said, “Was not necessity the plea for every exertion of power or exercise of oppression? It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” As Andrew Neil ...
Vor 3 Tagen · William Pitt the Younger was the dominant leader until his death in 1806. Pitt's strategy was to mobilize and fund the coalition against France. It seemed too hard to attack France on the continent so Pitt decided to seize France's valuable colonies in the West Indies and India.
Vor 4 Tagen · Pitt the Younger once said: “Was not necessity the plea for every exertion of power or exercise of oppression? It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” As Andrew Neil recently remarked, the modern democratic world is bereft of leadership, and autocrats – Putin, Xi and Trump – are once again on the march. But we don’t have a Pitt waiting in the wings. If Pitt were ...
Vor 4 Tagen · A more famous addition was that associated with the name of William Pitt the younger. The Pitt Memorial Committee, having a large surplus after defraying the cost of the statue in Hanover Square, London, offered to the University 'a considerable sum of money for the erection of an handsome building connected with the University Press ...
Vor einem Tag · The chancellor is the third-oldest major state office in English and British history, and in recent times has come to be the most powerful office in British politics after the prime minister. It originally carried responsibility for the Exchequer , the medieval English institution for the collection and auditing of royal revenues.
Vor 4 Tagen · At a meeting on 26 September 1804, the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, the Duke of York, both enthusiastically endorsed the scheme. John Rennie was appointed consulting engineer, and Pitt personally persuaded the local landowners to agree to the new canal.
