Memoirs of the Public Life and Administration of the Right Honourable, the Earl of LiverpoolAs the Prime Minister of England during the War of 1812, this biography offers a long look at the man who controlled so many fates in two different wars. |
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| Title | Memoirs of the Public Life and Administration of the Right Honourable, the Earl of Liverpool |
| Author | Robert Banks Jenkinson Earl of Liverpool |
| Publisher | Saunders and Otley, 1827 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 649 pages |
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