William Pitt, 1759-1806 link

Election of 1784

Prime Minister 1784-1801; 1804-1806

• Taxes
• Consolidated Fund
• Navy
• Diplomatic alliances
  • Holland
  • Prussia

The British Empire

• Loss of American Colonies

Canada

• Conquest of 1763
• Canada Act of 1791
• Upper Canada
• Lower Canada
• Parliaments with little power

India

• East India Company 1599
• Moghul Empire
• Wars with French--1740s, 1750s
• Robert Clive
• Bengal
• India Act of 1784
  • Haileybury College
  • Impeachment of Warren Hastings
• Military Expansion
• India Act of 1813
  • End of trading responsibilities

War with France

• 1792 Robespierre & Jacobins
• Execution of Monarch
• Paine's Rights of Man published
• French invasion of Austrian Netherlands
• French declaration of war 1793

Pitt's strategies:

Domestic repression

• Treason Trials
• Suspension of Habeas Corpus
• Bad harvests of 1795
• Combination Acts of 1799-1800

Funding Continental Armies

• Austria
• Prussia
• Russia
• Napoleon
• Income tax 1798

Building up the Royal Navy

• Recruitment
• Mutinies 1797, 98
• Victory at Alexandria in 1798

Ireland

• Roman Catholicism
• Penal Laws
• Anglo-Irish Landlords
• Church of Ireland
• Irish Rebellion of 1798

Act of Union 1801

• Abolish Irish Parliament
  • Lord Lieutenant
• Catholic Emancipation
  • Westminster Representation
• George III
• Henry Addington PM

Napoleon

• Invasion plans
• Trafalgar 1805
• Lord Nelson
• Conquest of Europe

Domestic Crises

• Orders in Council 1806ff
• Depression/Bad Harvests 1810-1811
• Luddite Rebellion 1811-1812
• "War of 1812"
• Assassination of Spencer Perceval 1812

War

• Invasion of Spain 1808
• Duke of Wellington
• Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
• Lord Liverpool PM 1812
• Waterloo 1815

 What was the basis for Britain's victory over Napoleon?

How did the war promote imperial expansion?

What was the basis for domestic political and economic discontent during the wartime period?