William Pitt The Younger: Britain's "Best" Prime Minister
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- William Pitt The Younger is probably not a name you've heard a lot. He's an extraordinary guy, he dealt with crazy George III and the American War of Independence, he led Britain through the French Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wales and the rise of Napoleon, and his Napoleonic Wars reforming the treasury (with the help of Adam Smith stopping corruption, bringing Ireland into the kingdom and fighting corruption all this when first coming to power at 24 and staying in power for almost 20 years one of the longest in Britain's history. So enjoy this william pitt the younger documentary explaining his life and times
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Sources: (none of these are affiliate, I dont really need £££ at this point)
William Pitt and the Great War by J.Holland Rose
(www.gutenberg.org/files/24980...) this says the austro prussian army was 113,000 ish even though wikipedia says stuff different, i decided to go with the book
Pitt by Lord Rosebery
(www.amazon.co.uk/Pitt-Lord-Ro...)
William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague
(www.amazon.co.uk/William-Pitt...)
William Pitt the Younger (Lancaster Pamphlets) by Eric J Evans
www.amazon.co.uk/William-Pitt...
The Younger Pitt Vol 1: The Years of Acclaim: The Years of Acclaim v. 1 (Biography & Memoirs) by John Ehrman
(www.amazon.co.uk/Younger-Pitt...)
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts (www.amazon.co.uk/Napoleon-Gre...)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaliti... the individual pages for the coalition wars)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
www.rct.uk/collection/themes/...
getrevising.co.uk/grids/pitt-...
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Beginning Of Conflict by Rafael Krux
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The Gigantic Epic Day After Tomorrow by Sascha Ende
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The Crown by Alexander Nakarada
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Battle Of The Creek by Alexander Nakarada
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Chase by Alexander Nakarada
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Childhood and the revolt of the colonies
4:04 The Gordon Riots
4:58 The Rotten Boroughs
5:38 Joining Parliament
8:05 Becoming Prime Minister
9:08 Dealing with the American War
9:58 Fixing the Economy
11:11 France descends into Revolution
12:15: War
15:53 The Treason Trials
16:48 The Coalition Falls Apart
20:20 Defending the Island
21:30 Ireland
22:20 Britain Alone
23:35 War Cont.
26:40 Trafalgar
27:38 Anxiety and Terror
28:54 Legacy
29:32 Leaving a Like would be cool if you liked this
If you enjoyed the video liking it helps me (and the video performance) a lot
Next video is Voltaire, ive already scripted it so it should be done relatively quickly
Also the map at 12:40 shows borders for 1789 pre revolution, im not good at mapping changes over time
Lord Palmerston!
You have the wrong Pitt
If I remember correctly, one borough was so rotten that its population was just three rather mangy cows, a dachshund named Colin, and a small hen in its late forties.
Wasn't there one person who very sadly accidentally brutally cut his head off while combing his hair?
What is this referring to?
@@steven_003 The first episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
Ah, Pitt, my favourite Prime Minister! I even wrote a poem about him when I was in high school. Thanks for the video; I especially liked the bottles of port marching across the screen to herald poor Pitt's demise.
Many thanks from France! Your video is helping my students to learn History in English 💯
Many thanks from France too!! You're best professor.
From Alexis, Ninon, Emmie, Gaëlle, Martin and Lucas ✨✨
Ah, the long awaited return! I'm sure William Pitt had a cameo in Blackadder. Interesting to see this period from the English side, Napoleon nicks all the limelight. Great to see you back :)
I was 100% going to include one of the jokes about him but i didnt wanna get copyright claimed :P
And which Pitt would that be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye?
I'm a direct descendant of William Pitt. Following in his footsteps is an understatement; I may only be 23, but I actually take great care of my two cats.
So I'm on my dad side
But he didn't have any children, so how?
I don’t understand how that’s possible. He had no children and his father children either no children or died before they could.
@@kordellswoffer1520 he didn’t but they can through either his mom or dads side
Great video man! Im happy to see your back making videos :)
Quarantine is getting me back into the swing of things
Out right died of laughter at 3:45. Such wonderful timing.
It took a couple hours off and on, but I managed to watch all of this. Thank you for keeping history alive in this way.
ill try to make some shorter ones :P, i just want to give a full view on a topic so its a battle between info and viewer watch time
@@AncientAccounts - It was fine, I personally didn't mind the length it just took several sittings to finish it.
amazing video. Glad you're back!
Worth the wait, great vid! ✨
This is an excellent history video of the highest quality. Bravo!
Great job, I learned many great details that helped glue the big picture together.
Very nice video. Its always enjoyable to see the acts of not necessary "great men" in history and how they affect it. Very well done on the video it was very intriguing.
Glad you enjoyed it man
@@AncientAccounts You should thank your self, The work you have done here is truly remarkable in its quality.
:) means a lot, liking the video supposedly helps it get boosted in the yt algorthim, so if you liked it a lot a like is appreciated
I've just discovered this channel and I have to say that I'm impressed. Great quality history videos that are far better than those from channels with 100 times as many subscribers. I'll give all the stuff I watch a like to help it succeed in "the Algorithm" and bring this channel to the attention of more people. I'm not English, but I recognise good material when I see it.
I wish I could heart this twice, really makes me super happy to see people enjoy these videos and it makes my day when people recognise the effort I put into these vids
Nice animations don't know how you have 1,67k subs you deserve more then that.
Great video man!
Glad you liked it!
pear
Excellent, incredibly underrated channel
got my history exam in 2 days, this video really helped :)
good luck! hope it goes well although keep in mind that he didnt actually clear the national debt, he just helped stabalize it, that was a mistake on my part
Cool video, bro. Pitt the Younger was a brilliant politician.🍇
Excellent work!Beautifully crafted!Can you please do Liberal Italy next
You mean Italian unification?Definitely gonna do it at some point , got a couple of videos I’ve already planned out, before I get to some new ones
@@AncientAccounts yes thanks-up ro Benito Mussolini if possible
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Great work
8:54 sure,sounds interesting,that is all i know about that subject.
Would love see to a video on Benjamin Disraeli
No matter what Pit thought most people in Britain weren't actually that scared of the French revolution as there was literally no chance of our monarchy becoming actually powerful again and power was already in the hands of parliament. Opinions changed when the terror started and the mass killings.
Our war was about trade not any desire to stop Napoleon's little crusade of destruction at first until napoleon turned decided to try to invade England. We really went to war with France because of them trying to cut us out of trade...
The people of Britain actually thought that the French revolution would be like the American one and they saw that as a fairly good thing. Obviously parliament has a different view but still. Things only changed when the mass killings of the terror started and then Napoleon trying to replace the standing monarchs with his own. Please don't anyone try selling the crap that napoleon cared about freedom etc. As he said. He replaced the kings and changed nothing for the people at all. Other than making them fight for him.
The Pitts were better than the Bushes here in the States. If the older Pitt was in charge there may never have been a revolution. Thanks for the video.
Bruh this vid needs way more views
thanks lol, apparently liking the video supposdly helps with that, but itll come with time, glad you liked it
@@AncientAccounts watch time and the number of videos and how often you upload actually help a lot more. It's actually worth doing a few short quick videos to get the upload time down in between the big ones. This comes from some paper on the you tube algorithm. Likes help RUclips decided what the individual view likes more than helps the channel. Although it does help a bit so is worth doing still. Also the amount of people and how much they ingage with each video matters so comments and reply to those comments etc. Hope this helps in some way.
Man, I love apples, you know? And pears, but only if they're crispy. Plums are okay, I guess. But bananas. Bananas are just amazing.
Amazing Pitt ! 🇬🇧♥️
I want to see a video on the history of democracy in England!
I'll add it to the list, expect it after 4 or 5 videos, this is is a pretty good topic
United Kingdom*
Nice one thanos
Hi Mate ! As an descendant of Pitt he would be very Happy with this video ! Im Sure !
1:00
Seven-Year war made Great Britain the world's superpower
Wasant the battle of Quiberon Bay in the 7 Years War?
So you’re telling me it wasn’t Michael Rosen? Might want to check your history books my dude!
I know him he was in blackadder
"Why do nice girls hate me?"
Do you think removing the faces from paintings is an 'art-style'?
I’m not an artist
Im drinking port while watching this
War just makes guilty in humanity. Let's live in love ! he's youngest PM.🌐🇬🇧♥️
1:23 apple.
First Lord of the Treasury later became known as Prime Minister because of Pitt.
Do ancient Egypt
I'll consider it, its sort of hard considering theres not a lot of images i can use for stuff
@@AncientAccounts do pharaohs long-lived monarchy
this battle in my mind is the spiritual ancestor to the Iraq war
golddust
Pitt paid back the British war debt? Britain added 140m of debt to finance the American war. Britain's total public debt at the end of the American War in 1783 was 268m. It was 262m just before the beginning of the French war in 1793. That's a reduction of 6m during ten years of peacetime under Pitt. Not much to crow about.
Yeah you're right, stabilising the financial situation is what I should've said, I didn't see those figures in any of my sources, in regards to 268 and 262 though, also he did create/add to a sinking fund which helped contribute to a stable financial situation, but explaining all this would detract from the overall video and the minutiae would bore most people, also is that public debt just to do with wars? There's a lot of other things that could contribute to that debt otherwise
Fair enough. The public debt figures are general, but they are mostly accumulated from past wars. One new thing Britain discovered in 18th C. (and others didn't) was the elastic magic of public debt, and its wars were almost entirely bankrolled by them. Which is why 18th C. Britain punched above its weight - British government could use finance to mobilize & deploy more ships, men & guns than countries twice its size. It just kept piling on the debt every war, and kept rolling it over rather than paying it back. Sure, there were efforts to raise taxes in peacetime, but they were generally feeble and barely made a dent. Sinking funds were largely theatrical - they were set up with great fanfare to shore up confidence, but then routinely raided after a while to cover current expenses. Overall, they paid very little back of wartime debts. Didn't really have to - interest was relatively modest, 3% usually. English merchants & gentry were generally happy and eager to hold government bonds.
If you want full stats: Britain (England) had less than 1m in public debt in 1689. It added 21m during 9 years War (1689-1697). Paid back 5m during the subsequent peace (1697-1701). Then added 37m during War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714), paid back 7m during subsequent peace (1715-1740) (admittedly, it would likely have paid back more if not for the South Sea Crisis of 1720). Then added 32m during War of Austrian Succession (1740-48), paid back 3m in subsequent peace (1748-1756), added 64m during Seven Years War (1756-63), paid back 10m in subsequent peace (1763-78). Added 140m during American War (1778-1783). So Pitt isn't really doing any differently than his predecessors in paying back a measly 6m during the peace. It's a fine tradition. If only the French crown had this kind of credit....
If you're curious, Pitt added a massive 336m of additional debt during the 1790s for the French War (1793 - until resignation in 1801). Total British public debt at the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) was a whopping 885m. Despite running constant budget surpluses for the next 25 years of peace, the debt still stood at 845m in 1840. They only finally paid the last outstanding bit of that in 2014. :)
You've inspired me to go down a rabbit hole of modern economics, I should definitely make a video on this sort of stuff
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I mean, he's no Lord Palmerston ...
Ooh that’s a good suggestion, I’ll get on it!
@@AncientAccounts I think he was making a simpson's reference to the argument about whether william pitt the elder or lord palmerston was the better prime minister
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plum
Banana
i think thats all of them , awesome, its cool to know that someone notices these things
@@AncientAccounts not quite
@@verpalorian310 they put apple in a seperate comment
Ah, nice
Orange you missing something?
Democracy in the united kingdom*
Not "England"
Well, sort of, democracy "starts" in 1066 with William the conquerer with his councils then goes to 1215 with the magna carta and keeps going along to 1688, this is all done in England it only involves the other countries in 1707 with scottish input and 1800 with ireland, and they both used the same parliament as england at the time,
so calling it the history of the democracy of the united kingdom wouldn't really say what the video is about and i'm not gonna cover devolution of powers to scotland and northern ireland
lratoion of inpnnz
“An extraordinary guy...brought Ireland into the United Kingdom” 😳😵😮😬🙄
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PLUM
BANANA
theres one you missed at 6:16 :P, i forgot about it myself
@@AncientAccounts argh, forgive me my lord.
Corrected:
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Pitt was a great prime minister in very trying times , the drinking & stress of office shorten his life.
Yes ! Thanks You, Pitt is my Ancestor !
@@olicinque1504 but he didn't have any children...
Alot of complints
I mean, I dont wanna be harsh but the idea Britain was defending itself against France is ridiculous. The 1st (before france' revolutionist government declared war on britain) second and third coalition were put in place to keep the aristocratic nations safe, essentially enabling their tyrannic dictatorship style leadership to remain across the whole of europe. Pit was just a naive/scared high class pawn which the aristocratic classes used to remain in power. Napoleon and the french fought under liberty, equality, fraternity. The rest just wanted to crush any freedom for the people and were willing to do it at the cost of their own peoples lives and minds (indoctrinating them with all sorts of propaganda) ...a little like whats going on with brexit atm.
Lower classes mind-washed by elites when the real motivations are a lot more callous than what the people think
You do realise this is a biography on Pitt right? So I’m explaining his actions and his thoughts and what he thought
, Secondly I’m not exactly gonna agree with you that the French Revolution and Napoleon were all about freeing the lower classes, and that’s why he and France, went to war. The reason France went to war the first time was while the king was still alive and he did it to (A) Bring food to France and invade Austria for grain and b) to have a short term victory to try and regain public support.
I’ll agree with you with the fact that the aims of the allies, in the 2nd and third coalitions were to stop France, but the main focus wasn’t idealogical it was because France started invading neutral Switzerland after a treaty they signed, saying they’d leave it alone, that isn't spreading freedom, its breaking a treaty, and no matter why they say they're invading, its a breach of a treaty, and thats why the war started,
furthermore to claim Napoleons main focus was to spread freedom during his control over the french war effort isn’t right, he reinstated slavery in hati, although with his conquests he did depose kings and set up republics in the spirit of the revolution , they weren’t mainly to just overthrow monarchies ,it was mostly used as a buffer between France and its enemies,
and finally, most of these republics only lasted a few years until Napoleon claimed himself emperor and annexed them into France.
When he took power in france he shut down newspapers, and censored most of them, He overthrew a democratic govt and made himself bascially absolute ruler.
Bascially my main thing is, it’s not as simple as “Napoleon wanted freedom” and the other people wanted to stop him doing that,
@@AncientAccounts
You've ended up with a very biased account due to the tone you chose, but ill concede to the fact its the way pitt saw it, even if I don't feel free/modern/thinkers; having done the research you clearly have, should be surreptitiously adapting its connotations.
You said multiple times, "France descended into revolution" as if its a bad thing.
Its highly nuanced but the tone of the whole lecture is very anti France (post revolution) and very pro-aristocracy...those two factors (and many more which i can pull up if u want) precisely go against "the freeing the lower classes" in fact. Democracy seems to not be something you favour, and if thats not the case then maybe you should rethink the values you choose to promote...vicariously through Pitt
The justification for the invasision of France for "breaking a treaty" is comparable to "weapons of mass destruction" in that its merely an excuse to attack. The real reasons Britain(through pitt from the king down) joined, funded and continued to fund against France was for fear that the revolution or napoleon would eradicate their tyranny if he made it over the channel.
Napoleon was an elected official, he took a vote on him becoming emperor from 1st consul, and took more elected decisions throughout his reign, a reign shortened by the efforts of Pitt and the British.
I never said it was simple but napoleon was a by-product of the revolution, had been close with the jacobin faction (even being imprisoned for 2 weeks) and instilled many futuristic causes that we, the western world, take for granted today. To even suggest that living under the policies of Napoleon (barring wartime measures) was a less liberating form of life is to completely burry your head under the aristocratic sand. It saddens me that such mindwashing of smart, intellectual "normal people" today are still mindwashed by the idea of (even a sterile) monarchs importance, and those who fought or were bought for their cause. Please think for yourself. Compare policies and know what napoleon represented. A Philosopher king. A chance...but a chance lost to propaganda like this.
btw as much as im going against it, information wise its a great piece of work...as is your channel.
Well researched and highly informative
I have to leave some nuance and in depth explanations of certain aspects due to this being a beginners introduction to Pitt, and the period in which he lived, and also because this is RUclips and in depth explanations of why the various coalition wars broke out (and whether the reasons hold up to scrutiny) wasn’t really my focus for this video because that will make most people click off, (and RUclips really pushes you to have a good average viewer duration to grow) and also would detract from the narrative focus,and would be harder to follow, (The reason why I say descended into revolution is tied to this, mostly because it’s dramatic and hooks people more)
As for your arguments I do see a lot of merit in your arguments that France was more democratic (in some aspects) than Britain, and Britain was intent on preserving aristocratic control and suppression of the principles that sprang forth from the revolution (such as putting Paine on trial, but alas due to the above paragraph I could never go in depth in a RUclips video assessing and weighing up these ideas (most people wouldn’t be interested sadly)
Although this comment exchange was really interesting and has raised some good points and when I go to uni next year, this would make a good topic for my essays and maybe final dissertation
PS. Your compliments on my channel despite our somewhat opposing viewpoints, I greatly appreciate, and it’s good to know that people see and value the effort I put into my videos :)
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@@AncientAccounts Enjoyed the exchange also, enjoy uni...you will "go far, in favourable circumstances"
Ah yes Pitt the Younger, the biggest european warmonger of the early 19th century.
How?