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He is best known for leading Britain in the great wars against France and Napoleon.

Pitt was an outstanding administrator who worked for efficiency and reform, bringing in a new generation of outstanding administrators.

He raised taxes to pay for the great war against France, and cracked down on radicalism.

To meet the threat of Irish support for France, he engineered the Acts of Union 1800 and tried ( but failed ) to get Catholic Emancipation as part of the Union.

Pitt created the " new Toryism ," which revived the Tory Party and enabled it to stay in power for the next quarter-century.

Historian Charles Petrie concludes that he was one of the greatest prime ministers " if on no other ground than that he enabled the country to pass from the old order to the new without any violent upheaval .... He understood the new Britain.