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Following Pitt's death in 1806, Grenville became the head of the " Ministry of All the Talents ", a coalition between Grenville's supporters, the Foxite Whigs, and the supporters of former Prime Minister Lord Sidmouth, with Grenville as First Lord of the Treasury and Fox as Foreign Secretary as joint leaders.
This work related to the Second League of Armed Neutrality 1800 – 1 and was undertaken at Lord Grenville's request, as Foreign Secretary, to represent the rights of belligerents from the British point of view.

Grenville's and Secretary
Grenville's cousin William Windham served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, and his younger brother, Thomas Grenville, served briefly as First Lord of the Admiralty.
On 5 February 1806 Windham received the seals of office to become Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in Lord Grenville's Ministry of All the Talents.

Grenville's and was
Pitt regarded Grenville's action as a betrayal and there was hostility between them for several years.
White was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sir Richard Grenville's artist-illustrator on his first voyage to the New World ; he served as mapmaker and artist to the expedition, which encountered considerable difficulties and returned to England in 1586.
The colonists were desperately in need of supplies and Grenville's return was delayed.
As April 1586 passed, there was no sign of Grenville's relief fleet.
The first tax in Grenville's program to raise a revenue in America was the Sugar Act of 1764, which was a modification of the Molasses Act of 1733.
Grenville's role was seen as an attempt to keep someone closely associated with Pitt involved in the government, in order to prevent Pitt and his supporters actively opposing the government.
Grenville's first act was to prosecute John Wilkes for publishing in The North Briton newspaper an article deriding King ' George III's speech made on 23 April 1763.
As Britain was trying to recover from the costs of the Seven Years War and now in dire need of finances for the British army in the American colonies, Grenville's most immediate task was to restore the nation's finances.
Canning left office with the death of Pitt ; he was not offered a place in Lord Grenville's administration.
He was then made leader of the Opposition during Lord Grenville's ministry ( the only time that Liverpool did not hold government office between 1793 and after his retirement ).
Initially he was a follower of George Grenville's faction but he increasingly lined up as a supporter of Lord North and, in 1769, he made this alliance formal.
Grenville's birthplace is unknown, but he spent much of his childhood at Clifton Arundell House after his mother remarried Thomas Arundell following the death of his father Sir Roger Grenville, who was Captain of the Mary Rose when it sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545.
He was heavily criticised by Ralph Lane, General of the expedition, who referred to Grenville's " intolerable pride and unsatiable ambition ".
Grenville's article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography confirms that he was considered the Whig leader in the House of Lords between 1807 and 1817, despite Grey leading the larger faction.
By the time Fox regained office in 1806 as member of Grenville's Ministry of All the Talents, Ponsonby's health was poor, with the result that his wife urgently pressed his claims for a peerage, arguing that it was merited by his opposition to the Regency Bill and the Union, and by his staunch support for the Foxite whigs at Westminster.
* 1801: The same year he was in London making calculations for Lord Grenville's system of finance, and in 1808 he drew up the tables for Spencer Perceval's system of increasing the sinking fund by granting life annuities on government security.
The reasons for this change of front are unknown, but Grenville's honour was above suspicion and he must have been convinced that he was doing right.
Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument, at the place where he fell. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he and others of the gentry not only proclaimed the king's Commission of Array at Launceston assizes, but also persuaded the grand jury of the county to declare their opponents guilty of riot and unlawful assembly, whereupon the posse comitatus was called out to expel them.
Sir Bevil Grenville's Memorial, at Kilkhampton churchAccording to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition: " Grenville was the type of all that was best in royalism.

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They were ordered to travel to Roanoke first to gather Grenville's men, but when they arrived on July 22, 1587, they found nothing except a skeleton that may have been the remains of one of the English garrison.
They were counting on these men to help with the new colony, but when they could find no one, they gave up hope of ever seeing Grenville's men alive.

Grenville's and .
* Maskelyne is portrayed as " Dr. Vickery " in Kate Grenville's semi-historical novel The Lieutenant.
Grenville's fleet departed Plymouth on April 9, 1585, with five main ships: the Tiger ( Grenville's ), the Roebuck, the Red Lion, the Elizabeth, and the Dorothy.
Harriot recounts little to none of these accounts in his report to England and does not mention the disorderly state of the colony under either Grenville's or Lane's tenure, correctly assuming these facts would prevent Roanoke from gaining more settlers.
In 1749 ownership of the estate passed to Grenville's brother Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple | Richard.
One of the more prominent measures of Grenville's administration occurred in March 1765 when Grenville authored the Stamp Act, enacted in November of that year.
Grenville's own son, William Grenville, later served briefly as Prime Minister.
After delivering the British Academy's 1957 Raleigh Lecture on History about Sir Richard Grenville's place in English history he became a Fellow of the Academy ( FBA ) in 1958.
He and his troops distinguished themselves at the at the Battle of Lansdowne on 5 July 1643 where his men defeated Sir Beville Grenville's Pikemen and then at the Battle of Roundway Down on 13 July.
Lord Holland wrote to him expressing his own opinion and Grenville's, that there had been nothing like it since the days of Swift ( Memoir, i. 151 ).

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The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.
< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.
He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and spent a decade in Spain.
Foreign debt increased faster than export earnings, and by the end of the decade, Somalia's debt of 4 billion shillings equalled the earnings from seventy-five years ' worth of banana exports.
After a decade, he entered public service as Minister of Foreign Trade and then Minister of Agriculture.
During the next decade he served as Minister of Industry and then as Minister of Foreign Trade.
His four decade long career in Foreign Service included ambassadorships in Russia ( 1993 – 1996 ), India ( 1992 – 1993 ), United Nations ( 1989 – 1992 ), Israel ( 1985 – 1988 ), El Salvador ( 1983 – 1985 ), Nigeria ( 1981 – 1983 ), and Jordan ( 1974 – 1978 ).
Foreign aid from western countries is developing and increasing in the past decade.
When this Slovenian supermarket chain physically returned to Serbia in 2003, after an absence of more than a decade, many saw Foreign Minister Svilanović's warm greeting speech during the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at Mercator's New Belgrade location as inappropriate considering the personal nature of his ties with the company.
As per the 2002 report of NASSCOM, IT and IT-enabled Services Industry will account for over 7 % of India's GDP and 30 % of Foreign exchange within a decade.
The dispute prolonged itself over the following decade, particularly after Tinu's name was again used by President Emil Constantinescu and former Foreign Intelligence Service director Ioan Talpeş in their recollections of the Severin incident.
During the 2005 ASEAN summit in Thailand, the Foreign Minister Nyan Win complained about the U. S. insistence of calling his country " Burma " instead of " Myanmar " as it was renamed more than a decade ago.
In this decade, acclaimed director Fons Rademakers won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film with 1986's The Assault.
Rosa Whitaker, who served as the first ever Assistant U. S. Trade Representative ( USTR ) for Africa in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and William J. Clinton took the final lead in developing and implementing the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ) following nearly a decade of leadership on the part of activists such as Paul Speck at Environmental and Energy Institute, and lawmakers, including Congressman Jim McDermott ( a former Foreign Service medical officer based in Zaire ) and Senator John Kerry, both senior lawmakers in the area of international trade.

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