A History of the English People, Vol. 10 Of 10 1760-1815 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A History of the English People, Vol. 10 of 10: 1760-1815 <p>1460. It is this that gives William Pitt so unique a position among our statesmen. His figure, in fact, stands at the opening of a new epoch in English his tory - in the history not of England only, but Of the English race. However dimly and imperfectly, he alone among his fellows saw that the struggle of the Seven Years' war was a struggle of a wholly different order from the struggles that had gone before it. He felt that the stake he was playing for was something vaster than Britain's standing among the powers of Europe Even while he backed Frederick in Ger many, his eye was not on the Weser, but on theson and the St. Lawrence. If I send an army. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.