Tory Party
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English statesman and prime minister, William Pitt the Younger. Serving a long tenure in power during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, the younger Pitt negotiated three European coalitions against France with little success on land, but oversaw the foundation of British naval supremacy after the Battle of Trafalgar.
The forerunner of the British Conservative Party from about 1680 to 1830. It was the party of the squire and parson, as opposed to the Whigs (which was supported by the trading classes and Nonconformists). The name is still applied colloquially to the Conservative Party. In the USA a Tory was an opponent of the break with Britain in the American Revolution 1775–83.
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