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Hace 2 días · Some historians claim that Lord Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, initiated the Opium War to maintain the principle of free trade. Professor Glenn Melancon, for example, argues that the issue in going to war was not opium but Britain's need to uphold its reputation, its honour and its commitment to global free trade.
- 4 September 1839 – 29 August 1842, (2 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
Hace 4 días · Lord Palmerston was nicknamed “Lord Pumice Stone“ due to his strong no nonsense abrasive determination, but was otherwise known as Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. He held office as Prime Minister from 1855 to 1865, and during that period was responsible for the Royal Commission, agreeing the building of numerous forts around the Island.
Hace 5 días · He was chancellor under Lord Aberdeen (1852–1855), Lord Palmerston (1859–1865) and Lord Russell (1865–1866). Gladstone's own political doctrine—which emphasised equality of opportunity and opposition to trade protectionism —came to be known as Gladstonian liberalism .
Hace 5 días · Oswald Mosley. Keir Starmer. Robert Peel. Give me perspective. UK election 2024. British political history. Winston Churchill defected in his time, as did Oswald Mosley. In fact, a defection ...
Hace 4 días · H enry John Temple (1784-1865), dubbed 3rd Viscount Palmerston, was the British Empire’s black operations chief in the first half of the Victorian era. For him, the main objective of British foreign policy was to increase Britain’s power in the world by any means- and often the more criminal the better. He hailed from an aristocrat family ...
Hace 7 horas · The Prime Minister, Lord Aberdeen, resigned, and Palmerston succeeded him. A negotiated settlement eventually put an end to the war by the March 1856 Treaty of Paris . During the war, Albert arranged the marriage of his fourteen-year-old daughter, Victoria , to Prince Frederick William of Prussia , but Albert delayed the marriage until Victoria was seventeen.
- 10 February 1840 – 14 December 1861
- 14 December 1861 (aged 42), Windsor Castle, England
Hace 1 día · März 1856 (Pariser Frieden) dankte Lord Palmerston, seit 1855 Premierminister, der Königin mit den Worten, dass die Aufgabe, die er und seine Kollegen zu erfüllen hatten, vergleichsweise leicht gemacht worden sei durch die „erleuchteten Ideen, die Eure Majestät in allen großen Angelegenheiten hatte.“
