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Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth

Philip Ziegler

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Description:Henry Addington is one of the great forgotten men of history.He occupied the most important positions in the State through one of the most crucial periods of British history. Addington was Speaker of the House of Commons from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the close of the first of the two long wars against Napoleon, at which point he succeeded Pitt as Prime Minister. He negotiated the short-lived Peace of Amiens in 1801 and was forced after eighteen months to resume the great struggle that was to end only on the field of Waterloo. Raised to the Peerage as Viscount Sidmouth, he became Home Secretary in 1812. In point of duration and of difficulty, his tenure of the Home Office has hardly been equalled.Philip Ziegler, using the large, and largely neglected, collection of Sidmouth papers still in possession of the family, has created a detailed yet lively study of a man who, whatever his shortcomings, did not lack either generosity or humanity. Much light is also thrown from an unfamiliar angle both on the politics of late Georgian England and on the many fascinating and brilliant figures, Pitt, Canning, Liverpool, Castlereagh, whose names are still bright on the page of history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth. To get started finding Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Endeavour Press

Release: 2013

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Description: Henry Addington is one of the great forgotten men of history.He occupied the most important positions in the State through one of the most crucial periods of British history. Addington was Speaker of the House of Commons from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the close of the first of the two long wars against Napoleon, at which point he succeeded Pitt as Prime Minister. He negotiated the short-lived Peace of Amiens in 1801 and was forced after eighteen months to resume the great struggle that was to end only on the field of Waterloo. Raised to the Peerage as Viscount Sidmouth, he became Home Secretary in 1812. In point of duration and of difficulty, his tenure of the Home Office has hardly been equalled.Philip Ziegler, using the large, and largely neglected, collection of Sidmouth papers still in possession of the family, has created a detailed yet lively study of a man who, whatever his shortcomings, did not lack either generosity or humanity. Much light is also thrown from an unfamiliar angle both on the politics of late Georgian England and on the many fascinating and brilliant figures, Pitt, Canning, Liverpool, Castlereagh, whose names are still bright on the page of history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth. To get started finding Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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