William Pitt and the Great War

Project Gutenberg's William Pitt and the Great War, by John Holland Rose This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: William Pitt and the Great War Author: John Holland Rose Release Date: April 3, 2008 [EBook #24980] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILLIAM PITT AND THE GREAT WAR *** Produced by Paul Murray, Wolfgang Menges and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber's Notes: The corrections listed in the "ERRATA" paragraph have been made. Further changes in the text are marked with a dashed blue line; the original text is displayed when the mouse cursor hovers over it. Greek words are marked with a dashed gray line; a transcription is displayed. William Pitt, in later life. (From a painting by Hoppner in the National Portrait Gallery) WILLIAM PITT AND THE GREAT WAR BY J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt.D. England and France have held in their hands the fate of the world, especially that of European civilization. How much harm we have done one another: how much good we might have done!—Napoleon to Colonel Wilks, 20th April 1816. LONDON G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.