Hanover Square, London. Statue of Prime Minister William Pitt the younger (1759-1806). 1831 by Sir Francis Chantrey. Bronze standing figure in contemporary dress on a granite pedestal. Photo: 15.06.2024. #London #statue #WilliamPitt #FrancisChantrey

#HistoryMatters #AmazingGraceMovie youtu.be/Q6Cv5P9H9qU #WilliamWilberforce was persuaded by friends #WilliamPitt, #ThomasClarkson, #HannahMore, and #OlaudahEquiano to take on the unpopular and dangerous issue of the abolition of the British 🇬🇧 slave trade in 1807. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

PRIMARY CONFLICT A review of Fred Anderson's Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in North America (2000) (Rating 5 of 5) As I ...

Review of Fred Anderson's Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in North America 2000 #SevenYearsWar #FrenchandIndianWar #USHistory #Britishhistory #FrenchHistory #Founders #WilliamPitt
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

#WilliamPitt, British prime minister (28 May 1759-1806)

#Historicquotes

Jean Sans Peur, Duke of Burgundy (1371), George I of England (1660), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), #WilliamPitt the Younger (1759), Barry Commoner (1917), Gyorgy Ligeti (1923), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), Betty Shabazz (1940), Rudy Giuliani (1944) were born #OnThisDay...

William Pitt the Younger English politician William Pitt the Younger was BOTD in 1759. Born in Hayes, Kent to an aristocratic family, he was the second son of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, a famous statesman and forme…

English politician William Pitt the Younger, Britain’s youngest-ever Prime Minister and a lifelong bachelor, was BOTD in 1759. #williampitt #pitttheyounger #maybegays #bornonthisday

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves"~William Pitt the Younger (1783)

Jean Sans Peur Duke of Burgundy (1371), George I of England (1660), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), #WilliamPitt the Younger (1759), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), Betty Shabazz (1940), Rudy Giuliani (1944), Hunter 'Patch' Adams (1945) & Marco Rubio (1971) were born #OnThisDay...