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Hace 5 días · All before the age of 50. William Pitt the Younger was not a perfect leader. He had his blind spots, like his crackdowns on dissent. But his strengths—his intelligence, integrity, vision, and quiet resolve—equipped him to lead his country through one of the most dangerous and difficult periods in its history.
Hace 9 horas · William Pitt the Younger As prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–1806) William Pitt the Younger , despite his youth, reinvigorated the administrative system of Great Britain, modernized its finances, and led the way in breaking out of the diplomatic isolation, it found itself during the American war.
Hace 3 días · William Pitt, the Younger, steering a boat (“The Constitution”) with Britannia on board toward a castle designated as the “Haven of Public Happiness,” while Charles James Fox, Joseph Priestley, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan pursue the vessel, political cartoon by James Gillray, 1793.
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Hace 3 días · 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'.
Hace 2 días · He has written a biography of 18th-century Prime Minister Pitt the Younger (published in 2004), taught himself how to play the piano, and hosted the 25th anniversary programme for Radio 4 on the political television satire Yes Minister in 2005.
Hace 4 días · The Regulating Act (1773) and William Pitt the Younger’s India Act (1784) established government control of political policy through a regulatory board responsible to Parliament. Thereafter the company gradually lost both commercial and political control.
Hace 5 días · Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press, 1996, ISBN: 9780804727549; 928pp.; Price: £70.00. Professor Jeremy Black, review of The Younger Pitt. III. The Consuming Struggle, (review no. 11) By any standards. Ehrman's Pitt is a major achievement. The third volume, covering the years 1797 until Pitt's death in 1806, is no exhausted sequel, no ...
