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Hace 2 días · Politically ambitious, Dingley invited William Pitt the elder to North End in 1763. Asserting that no ague was ever known there, he made considerable alterations, building a new wing and a gymnasium for Pitt's children by 1766, when Pitt first moved in. Pitt returned during his illness in 1767 but Dingley, put up as a candidate to ...
Hace 2 días · William Pitt the Elder, who entered the cabinet in 1756, had a grand vision for the war that made it entirely different from previous wars with France. As prime minister, Pitt committed Britain to a grand strategy of seizing the entire French Empire, especially its possessions in North America and India.
- 17 May 1756 – 15 February 1763, (6 years, 8 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Hace 3 días · Forbes named the site for the British statesman William Pitt the Elder. The British built Fort Pitt (1761) to ensure their dominance at the source of the Ohio.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 5 días · Milord Chatham is William Pitt the Elder, ennobled as Earl of Chatham. He was prime minister from 1766 to 1768 and remained influential in the Whig party and in parliament until his death. Pictured: William Pitt (1708-1778), called Pitt the Elder because he is the father of William Pitt the Younger, prime minister from 1783 to 1801 and 1804 to 1806.
Hace 3 días · He laid the foundation stone of Blackfriars Bridge during his Mayoralty (October 31, 1760) on which was an inscription laudatory of William Pitt the elder, then Secretary of State, the Latinity of which was the subject of much animadversion.
Hace 2 días · Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. As Forbes was a Scotsman, he probably pronounced the name / ˈ p ɪ t s b ər ə / PITS-bər-ə (similar to Edinburgh).
Hace 4 días · A swift analysis in chapter 3 of English politics from James Harrington's neo-classical The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) to William Pitt the Elder and the Seven Years War (1756–63) is attuned to the changing meanings of 'independence', but prioritises the consistencies in this 100-year period.
