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25 de abr. de 2024 · William Pitt the Younger was dedicated to addressing the national debt, which had escalated to £243 million due to the American war. He implemented several financial reforms including creating a sinking fund in 1786 to systematically reduce the debt, lowering it to £170 million by 1792. Image: Pitt’s portrait by English painter, John Hoppner.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘William Pitt the Younger’ was created by John Hoppner in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Pitt married Hester Grenville in 1754. They had five children, including William Pitt the Younger, who became Prime Minister five and a half years after his father’s death. Pitt was immensely popular with the American colonists and there are many places in eastern North America named either Pitt or Chatham in his honour.
7 de ene. de 2021 · "William Pitt the Younger was one of the most extraordinary figures in British history, who became Prime Minister in 1783 at the remarkable age of twenty-four. In this biography, William Hague explains the dramatic events and exceptional abilities which allowed extreme youth to be combined with great power."
5 de mar. de 2023 · At just 24 years old, William Pitt The Younger, son of Pitt the Elder, was the youngest Prime Minister in history. He died aged only 46. He was exhausted by the demands of an office whose modern ...
William Pitt (anomenat el Jove) ( Hayes, Kent, 28 de maig de 1759 - Londres, 23 de gener de 1806 ), primer ministre de Gran Bretanya (entre 1783 i 1801 i 1804 i 1806), que va establir les bases d'una nova etapa de prosperitat després de la guerra d'independència nord-americana, va ser el principal dirigent de l'Estat durant la lluita contra ...
Derek Jarrett: Pitt the Younger. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1974, ISBN 0-297-76668-6; Robin Reilly: William Pitt the Younger. Cassell, London 1978, ISBN 0-304-29781-X; John Ehrman: The Younger Pitt. The Reluctant Transition. Constable, London 1983 OCLC 465754493; John Ehrman: The Younger Pitt. The Consuming Struggle.
