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BBC radio collection.
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| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 35166 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 2:26:46. |
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Read by Anna Massey. |
| Summary |
France's attempts to export its 1789 revolution led to war all over Europe and beyond, raising the likes of Nelson and Wellington to the status of national hero as they led the resistance to the ambitions of Napolean Bonaparte. Their greatest triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo have justifiably become major landmarks in British history. For much of this time the political leader of Britain was the second William Pitt, Pitt the Younger, who had been only twenty four years old when he became prime minister for the first time. It was Pitt who invented income tax as a democratic means of paying for the French wars and who had also to cope with another rebellion in Ireland (which this time led to union with Great Britain), with another war against Britain's former American colonies and with the problem of a king whose sanity was in serious question. |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- History -- 1789-1820.
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| Added Author |
Massey, Anna.
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BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
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| Added Title |
Nelson, Wellington & Napoleon : 1792-1815 |
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This sceptred isle : 1792-1815 |
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This sceptred isle (Radio program)
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| ISBN |
1405699418 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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