HISTORY SNAPSHOT- 1780-1861 Great Brittain

HISTORY SNAPSHOT- 1780-1861 Great Brittain

Solving the Mystery of the History we maybe never knew, one snapshot at a time. 

The various events are covered in a few pages or maybe ten.  A few snapshots are offered here give you some clues to follow.

The main character in the snapshots you will see here is Charles James FOX born in London in 1749.  

Fox was against oppression and believed the peoples and colonies of the Brittish Empire should not be exploited.  This placed him in the position of supporting the American fight for Independance from Brittain, even though he was a member of Brittish Parliment.  These snapshots are a recap of a speech he gave in Parliment following the defeat of the Brittish. 

"What was the cause of our wasting forty millions of money, and sixty thousand lives? The American war!"  "O blind and incapable men! whose measures are framed with so little foresight,..."


Some years later Fox was standing up for the people of India.  His words were recorded and centuries later here they are on the snapshots below.

"What are we to think of a government whose good fortune is supposed to spring from the calamities of its subjects, whose aggrandizement grows out of the miseries of mankind?
This is the kind of government exercised under the East India Company upon the natives of..."

 

 

 

 

The World's Famous Orations Volume IV is a work of William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)  & Francis Whiting Halsey(1851-1919) published 1906.  It may be  found here

And a vintage 1906  hard cover edition of volume 1 on Greece is  here in the gossamer stuff.

 

EXPLORE MORE

read the book  here to get whole pictue.

Encyclopedia Brittanica offers details on Charles James Fox here,

 

 

 

 

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