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3 mag 2024 · George Canning, British foreign minister to the U.S., had the idea to issue a declaration forbidding future colonization in the Americas. Canning suggested that the U.S. and Britain make a joint declaration, because both nations had motives for limiting colonialism (besides their own) in the Americas.
14 mag 2024 · George Canning. George Canning (* 11. April 1770 in London; † 8. August 1827 ebenda) war ein britischer Politiker, der zweimal als Außenminister und für kurze Zeit als Premierminister diente. George Canning. Aufgewachsen in ärmlichen Verhältnissen, ermöglichte ihm sein Onkel Stratford Canning den Besuch in Eton und Oxford, wo ...
3 giorni fa · Just about everybody who didn’t know him and many who did thought him a cold fish – arrogant, aloof, disdainfully aristocratic. Compared to his dazzling successor at the Foreign Office, George Canning, Castlereagh seemed a bit of a bore.
6 giorni fa · This was hardly the full extent of Canning's extra-parliamentary speech-making. During the 1812 general election, for instance, he is reported to have made 160 speeches in Liverpool. (7) Even so, by including a sampling of Canning's public orations, the editor acknowledged the fact that significant statements and the eloquence of leading statesmen were not confined to the Houses of Parliament.
3 giorni fa · Perceval's government was weakened by the refusals to serve of former ministers such as George Canning and William Huskisson. It faced massive problems at a time of considerable industrial unrest and at a low point in the war against Napoleon.
5 giorni fa · John Hookham Frere (born May 21, 1769, London, Eng.—died Jan. 7, 1846, Valletta, Malta) was a British diplomat and man of letters. Frere was educated at Eton, where he met the future statesman George Canning (with whom he collaborated on The Anti-Jacobin ), and at the University of Cambridge.
6 mag 2024 · It was a commonplace that Peel was excessively ambitious; but as George Canning, John Prescott and almost every female minister since 1945 could testify, such claims are the common currency of politics when individuals attain positions thought to be above their station.
