Picking up the career of Pitt the Younger in 1791, where his earlier William Pitt and National Revival left off, Rose follows the prime minister through the long struggle with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France: the coalitions, the naval mutinies of 1797, the Irish crisis, resignation and return. He writes from the state papers and is frank about Pitt’s limitations as well as his gifts.
A full-scale scholarly portrait of Britain’s war leader, published in 1911 and still a rich source for the 1790s. Download the free EPUB.