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Updated: May 6, 2025
Pitt's War-Offices, Admiralties, were not of themselves quick-going entities; but Pitt made them go. Slow-paced Lords in Office have remonstrated, on more than one occasion: "Impossible, Sir; these things cannot be got ready at the time you order!" Unless the time is kept, I will impeach your Lordship!" Your Lordship's head will come to lie at your Lordship's feet!
All which was done: the War-Offices somewhat astonished at such advent of an antique Roman among them; but writing as bidden, the hand being plain, and the man an undeniable article.
This was an unsuccessful first-stroke for Pitt. Indeed, he never did much succeed in those Descents on the French Coast, though never again so ill as this time. Those are a kind of things that require an exactitude as of clockwork, in all their parts: and Pitt's Generalcies and War-Offices, we know whether they were of the Prussian type or of the Swedish!
In a four years' determined effort of this kind, things do improve: and it was wonderful, to what amount, out of these chaotic War-Offices little better than the Swedish, and ignorant Generalcies fully worse than the Swedish, Pitt got heroic successes and work really done.
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