Prime Ministers and their Foreign Secretaries
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
On New Year’s Day 1814, the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, set sail from Harwich for Holland with a challenging brief: to build a coalition with Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden to finally bring an end to the French Empire …