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Title: THE BELLS OF VICTORY
THE PITT-NEWCASTLE MINISTRY AND CONDUCT OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR 1757-1762
By: Richard Middleton
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521521327
ISBN 13: 9780521521321
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 19 July, 2002
Pages: 268
Description: Emphasizes the role of teamwork in the British government's conduct of the Seven Year's War.
Synopsis: 'Our Bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victory', wrote Horace Walpole after receiving news of Wolfe's victory at Quebec in October 1759. Traditional accounts of the Seven Years' War have emphasized the contribution of the Elder Pitt to the success of Britain in Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, India and the Far East. The Bells of Victory argues that such a view is misguided and that, far from exercising single-handed control, Pitt's influence was necessarily circumscribed. The margin between military success and failure was extremely small, and the British authorities worked within constraints imposed by constitutional propriety and political expediency. Effective government action was the result of teamwork by many individuals in the diverse fields of diplomacy, politics, finance, the army, navy, ordnance and commissariat.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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