Author: George TomlinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt
Author: George TomlinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt
Author: George PretymanMemoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt
Author: Henry ClelandMemoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt
Author: Sir George Pretyman (Bart., Bp. of Winchester)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt. By George Tomline ... Vol. 1. [-2.]
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Author: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable, William Pitt ... and a Concise Summary of the Brilliant Speeches Made in Parliament, by this Distinguished Orator ... Interspersed with Biographical Notices of His Principal Political Contemporaries ... Illustrated with Portraits
Author: Henry CLELANDA history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Author: Francis ThackerayA Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
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Author: London Institution (London)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Coalitions Against Napoleon
Author: William NesterPublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399043064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Britain alone could not hope to defeat the might of Napoleonic France which, through enforced conscription, had become a nation in arms. But British leaders had a long history of forging alliances to counter their rivals and when revolution ravaged France in 1793 and a levée en masse raised a huge patriotic army, it was through a coalition of monarchies that French ambitions were restrained â a coalition made possible by British gold and British industry. When Napoleon seized the reins of power in France, he too introduced conscription and, once again, it was a succession of British led and funded coalitions which eventually brought Napoleon to his knees. During the years 1793 to 1815, the British Government formed and underwrote seven coalitions that cost Britain £1,657,854,518 as the national debt tripled from £290,000,000 to £860,000,00. Of that, British subsidies to around thirty allies amounted to £65,830,228, along with staggering amounts of war supplies mass produced by British factories and shipped to allies. Britainâs leading role in Europe did not end with Waterloo. Immediately following the Sixth Coalition, and amidst the Seventh Coalition, Britain constructed, with the other great powers, a security system of cooperation and consultation called the âConcert of Europeâ that prevented a serious war among them for two generations. Britainâs power to underwrite those coalitions came from a related series of revolutions â agrarian, mercantile, financial, technological, manufacturing, cultural, and political that developed over the proceeding century. For many reasons that happened in Britain and not elsewhere. Of them, cultural values may be most crucial. Constraints were fewer and incentives greater for enterprising Britons to invest, invent, buy, and sell in ways that enriched themselves and their nation more than elsewhere. During the eighteenth century, Britainâs leaders mastered a virtuous power cycle of victorious wars, expanding production, captured territories and markets, and more income. During a speech before Congress in December 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called on Americans to be an âarsenal of democracyâ to aid Britain and other countries threatened by the imperialistic fascist powers. Britain played exactly the same role during the Napoleonic era. The Coalitions Against Napoleon explores how Britain developed and asserted the financial, manufacturing, and military power to achieve that goal.