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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.
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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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.
- Jacqueline Reiter
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29 de jul. de 2011 · John Pitt, 2. Earl of Chatham; Usage on en.wikipedia.org List of knights and ladies of the Garter; Usage on fa.wikipedia.org جان پیت، دومین ارل چتم; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org John Pitt; Usage on it.wikipedia.org John Pitt, II conte di Chatham; Usage on nl.wikipedia.org Walcherenexpeditie; Usage on pl.wikipedia.org John Pitt
‘John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham’ was created in 1809 by Charles Turner in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
John Pitt was the son of a great man (William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham) and the brother of another (William Pitt the Younger), but he never aspired to greatness himself. Indeed his political enemies derided his incompetence and tardiness, calling him in his lifetime ‘the Late Lord Chatham’. Does Jacqueline Reiter succeed […]
