第一代查塔姆伯爵威廉·皮特
引注

↑  Henry Fairlie, "Oratory in Political Life," History Today (Jan 1960) 10#1 pp 3-13, covers Chatham.
↑  Jeremy Black, "William Pitt the Elder" (1998)
↑  Black (1992)
↑  Marie Peters, "The Myth of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Great Imperialist: Part One, Pitt and Imperial Expansion 1738–1763," Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, January 1993, vol. 21, issue 1, pp. 31–74
↑  Peter D.G. Thomas, "'The Great Commoner': The Elder William Pitt as Parliamentarian," Parliamentary History, July 2003, vol. 22, issue 2, pp. 145–63
↑  Paul Strangio; Paul 't Hart; James Walter. . Oxford UP. 2013: 225. ISBN 9780199666423.
↑  Brown pp. 15–16
1 2  Chisholm 1911，第1頁.
↑  Black pp. 1–2
↑  Turner, p. 1
↑  Brown pp. 17–18
↑  Brown, p. 26
↑  Black pp. 5–9
1 2  Black p. 5
↑  Williams, Basil.  1. 14 January 2014: 39  [27 June 2019]. ISBN 9781136625596. （原始内容存档于2022-10-10）.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12  Chisholm 1911，第2頁.
↑  Black p. 4
↑  Trench p. 180
↑  Black pp. 12–13
↑  Black pp. 31–32
↑  Brown pp. 32–33
↑  Williams (1) pp. 43–44
↑  Brown pp. 31–82
↑  Black pp. 37–39
↑  Brown p. 44–45
↑  De-la-Noy p. 144
↑  Woodfine pp. 90–91
↑  Woodfine p. 200
↑  William Pitt, The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches (London: Aylott & Jones, 1848), pp. 6–7.
↑  Rodger pp. 237–37
1 2  Brendan Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire (2007) p. 278
↑  Simms pp. 274–81
↑  Trench pp. 218–24
↑  Brown p. 54
↑  Black p. 58
↑  Brown p. 81
↑  Reed Browning, The Duke of Newcastle (Yale UP, 1975), pp. 198–200
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Chisholm 1911，第3頁.
↑  Brown p. 98
↑  Anderson pp. 86–107
↑  Brown pp. 116–18
↑  Wolfe (2019) p. 123.
↑  Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George II: Volume III, (Yale University Press, 1985), p. 1.
↑  Basil Williams, The Whig Supremacy, 1714–60, (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 375.
↑  Walpole, Memoirs: Volume II, p. 251.
↑  McLynn pp. 95–99
↑  Anderson pp. 211–12
↑  Rodger pp. 268–269
↑  Brown pp. 174–76
↑  McLynn pp. 99–100
↑  Anderson p. 308
↑  Brown pp. 176–77
↑  Anderson pp. 302–03
1 2  Anderson pp. 344–68
↑  Fred Anderson. . Penguin. 2006: 197. ISBN 9781101117750.
↑  Anderson p. 477
↑  Rodger p. 284
↑  Brown pp. 231–43
1 2  Dull pp. 194–200
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  Chisholm 1911，第4頁.
↑  Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (Oxford University Press, 1982; updated, 2005), 115. ISBN 978-0-19-516247-9
↑  Anon., "The History of the Last Session of Parliament" [1765-66]London Magazine, 59-60; viewable through the Hathi Trust at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021278158. Discussed in Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (London: Clarendon, 1988), 620-21. ISBN 9780198207337
↑  "Two [...] of his diversions, against the French settlements in West Africa, were materially, as well as strategically, most successful. Both beautifully planned by Pitt and admirably carried out, the first under Captains Marsh and Mason, the second under Commodore Keppel, another of Pitt's boys in the thirties, resulted in the capture of all the French factories on that coast, including Goree and Senegal." Basil Williams, ""The Great Commoner", in The Whig Supremacy, 1714-1760 (London: Clarendon, 1939), 340-41; viewable at https://archive.org/stream/whigsupremacy171001761mbp/whigsupremacy171001761mbp_djvu.txt
↑  Corbett Volume II pp. 188–89
↑  Corbett Volume II pp. 204–07
↑  Walpole, Horace. Barker, G F Russell , 编.  2 Reprint. AMS Press. 1971: 32 [1894]  [2022-10-27]. ISBN 9780404068400. （原始内容存档于2022-10-27）.
↑  . St Catherine's Press. 1912: 144. Editor Vicary Gibbs.
↑  Thompson, Andrew. . History of government.   [10 November 2018]. （原始内容存档于2022-10-27）.
↑  Burke, Edmund. . Project Gutenburg. 2002  [10 November 2018]. （原始内容存档于2022-10-20）.
1 2 3 4 5 6  Chisholm 1911，第5頁.
↑  Simms p. 561
↑  William Edward Hartpole Lecky. . D. Appleton. 1891: 181.
↑  Ian R. Christie, "The Earl of Chatham and American Taxation, 1774–1775", Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation (Winter 1979) 20#3 pp. 246–259
↑  Joseph C. Morton. . Greenwood. 2003: 37. ISBN 9780313317927.  含有內容需登入查看的頁面 (link)
↑  Clinton Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic. The Origin of the American Tradition of Political Liberty (New York: Harcourt, Bruce and Company, 1953), p. 145, pp. 359–360.
↑  Jeremy Black, Pitt the Elder (Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 299.
↑  Stanley, A.P., Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey (London; John Murray; 1882), p. 241.
↑  Simms, p 290
↑  Cokayne，第143頁. sfn模板錯誤: 無指向目標: CITEREFCokayne (幫助)
↑  Williams, Basil.  1. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1915: 247.
↑  The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James in the County of Middlesex Vol. V. 1761-1786. 22 May 1761.
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