Pitt the Younger, William

has biography | a une biographie: British statesman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Pitt was Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783-1801) and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1801; 1804-1806). In 1793, Pitt oversaw Britain's entry into the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), leading a campaign to conquer the French colony of Saint-Domingue and restore slavery on the island. Britain's five year intervention in Haiti was a military and fiscal disaster, with over 40,000 British soldiers dying in the conflict.

Although he expressed support for the abolition of the slave-trade before the House of Commons in 1792, Pitt failed to secure progress on the issue throughout his time in office. The British slave-trade was abolished in 1807 after Pitt's death, while the institution of British slavery itself was not abolished until 1833.
was born | est né: 28 May 1759
died in | est mort par: 23 January 1806
has nationality | a la nationalité: Great Britain; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; History of Parliament Online; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; David Geggus, 'The Cost of Pitt's Caribbean Campaigns, 1793-1798', The Historical Journal, 26, 3 (1983) 699-706; David Geggus, Slavery, War, and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793–1798 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983)

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Statue of William Pitt the Younger, Cambridge
Statue of William Pitt the Younger, Hanover Square

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