Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804
He signed the peace that couldn't hold. Addington brokered the Treaty of Amiens with Napoleon in 1802, bought Britain a year's breathing room, then watched it collapse and had to fight the war alone — no allies, weak defenses, until Pitt returned to clean up the mess.
Addington rose through the House of Commons, serving as Speaker from 1789 to 1801 before becoming prime minister that same year. His signature achievement was the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, an unfavorable peace with Napoleonic France that ended the Second Coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars. When the treaty broke down, he resumed hostilities without allies, conducting what amounted to weak defensive operations ahead of the War of the Third Coalition. Forced out in 1804 in favor of William Pitt the Younger — the man he'd replaced — Addington later returned as Home Secretary from 1812…
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