William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806 ... He was also the longest-serving wartime prime minister. His great adversary Napoleon called him a “genius of evil.” He had a few other distinctions.

allowed it to overcome Napoleon in the end ... I think all of us who are in those situations experience a bit of what William Pitt did ... but most of us leave at some point, he never did".

but Napoleon dominated Europe and was not finally defeated until nine years after Pitt's death. In this series, Nick Robinson also looks at Earl Grey, William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith ...

The government under William Pitt and George Canning was just as keen as Napoleon to enlist artists, especially visual satirists, in the propaganda wars. London had a thriving print trade in the ...

As William Pitt, aged just 46 ... by the stress of running an endless war and the disappointment of hearing of Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz, his last words were characteristic.

In the late 1790s, the war against Napoleon was not going well for Britain ... Britain's public finances were in a mess. Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger urgently needed an injection ...